If you were watching the confirmation hearings of Ketanji Brown Jackson, then you may have seen Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono give one of the most bizarre and least self-aware monologues in the history of politics. Given, “bizarre” and “least self-aware” are pretty much constants when it comes to Hirono, but this one took the cake.
As my colleague Sister Toldja covered, Hirono started off by attempting to paint her Republican colleagues with her usual, overused and tired brush of sexism and racism. She proclaimed that they were focused on her race and sex and that was wrong of them to do because she’s so much more. This was right before saying that this all absolutely was about her race and sex and that it was about time a black woman was a part of the Supreme Court.
(Watch: Mazie Hirono Makes Absolute ‘Woke’ Mess of Things During Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings)
"They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race…Your nomination is not about filling a quota… It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court," Sen. Hirono says of Judge Jackson in opening remarks. pic.twitter.com/5CsFDDheXY
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 21, 2022
I often say that the woke are very unaware of themselves. They often speak out against racism, sexism, homophobia, etc., but they demonstrate these types of bigotry more often than anyone else. Whether it’s overt racism and sexism against white people, Asian people, men, or black people who don’t fall in line, it’s the soft bigotry of low expectations that the left engages in.
Watching Hirono, all of that was on display in one speech, but it made me remember back to another time that a leftist was wholly unaware of the follies of their own thinking.
Back in 2019, I was struck by a conversation had between then-CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey and Trust & Safety head Vijaya Gadde, and podcasters Tim Pool and Joe Rogan. Pool was confronting Gadde about how they are allowing their biases to dictate speech on the platform and suspending or banning those who tend to disagree with their biases even after they said they were fair and even-handed about how they went about punishing users her broke their TOS. Gadde could not wrap her head around the fact that these rules and regulations of Twitter’s Trust & Safety council were indeed based on leftist opinion, specifically transgenderism. According to her, she was basing them off of pure, unassailable facts.
Pool made his case undeniably clear, but Gadde looked at this concept the way my dog looks at me when I try to hand him pen and paper; with abject confusion.
Pool and Rogan did their best to impart to Gadde that she was banning people off of the platform for mere opinions that they were attempting to debate with others about, but she just didn’t get it. The fact that it was an opinion based on ideological concepts was not getting to her.
In short, Gadde was so lost in her own ideological world that common sense concepts weren’t even reaching her.
Hirono seems much the same. She’s so lost in her own world that she, like other radical leftists, can make a statement one second and then the very next say something that absolutely defies it. They’ve inhaled so much of their own ideological gas that the part of their brain that would make them aware that they’re saying or doing something hypocritical is almost totally gone.
I’ve often said that there’s something about extreme leftism that does something to the brain. Like a drug, there’s some sort of damaging effect. As far as I can understand, no scientist has attempted to study it, but it’s there and it’s as clear as day. It may come in different looks, be it, pink-haired fat women, with too-tight clothing and piercings for days or pantsuit-wearing professionals, but they all share that same trait.
A complete and total lack of self-awareness.
