How about both?
I would take one dead Confederate over a thousand living so-called “progressives”.
In other words, we don’t like what the Left is doing, although we support doing the same things when it’s done to people we don’t agree with.
Back when they called it McCarthyism, people who did it had no shame.
Cancel culture is nothing new. When the Left takes control they censor, suppress, monitor and imprison. The Communists would not tolerate a free press, religion, individual freedom of conscience or even independent thought or criticism. Today the Left has seized power and controls powerful regulatory agencies, police, Federal law enforcement and most prosecutors. Judges are intimidated. The Left also controls the media, huge tech, communication corporations, sways the boards of key industries, Academia and many religous groups. Elections are openly fraudulent.
Cancel culture happens whenever the Left achieves power. They now have it. The big question is will the American nation survive. History says no.
Huge swaths of our population no longer care about morals because they’ve been raised on relativism.
The problem is making this a moral issue results in “preaching to the choir”. Making this about free speech addresses those people who are not overtly religious but who are still potential political allies. This is not about achieving ideological purity but rather building a majority.
Why give CC any credence at all?
“However, a person making clearly antisemitic remarks against Jewish people that also present a conflict of interest with her occupation should face professional consequences”
What consequences, and why? Words are not deeds.
The left believes they get to define “morals”, but theirs are Godless.
Bookmarked.
Irony: Ben Domenech is one of the individuals who made sure that I got canceled starting a LONG time ago. He actually bothered to hassle me in person - this was in about 2009 or so on twatter, when I was using an account I don’t have anymore. So he’s been canceling me for, haha, more than 10 years now. He just doesn’t sign off on it personally.
We’re supposed to blame “the Left” of course. I don’t know why Domenech considered me someone who needed to be gotten rid of but what seemed to start the avalanche of BS (that hasn’t let up to this very day) was me posting about “the born gay hoax.” (https://selfdefinition.org/celibacy/Ryan-Sorba-The-Born-Gay-Hoax.pdf) He messaged me on twatter and asked me about gay people I had known and why I thought that and so on - the exchange was very brief and I didn’t think much of it. But suddenly some people that I thought were out of my life forever started showing up and boy, howdy, were they ever PISSED.
I used to call myself a “libertarian” and even registered to vote as a libertarian. I donated to “the libertarian party” which is now - as we are all aware, or should be, just a mouthpiece for globalism and open borders and pot “legalization” (which is just another tax and regulations scam that enables organized crime and not true legalization). My experience has been that those journalists/editors/pundits who call themselves “Libertarian” these days are accepting funding from globalist entities; they don’t want to alienate their conservative readers so they only get liberal-y once in a while.
So, anyway, the article doesn’t really say anything that controversial, but sort of muddies the waters a little bit more by saying one should impose a “moral standard” on the interweb and social media and blah-de-blah, conservative stuff, and why do we frame it as freedom of speech when it’s about morality, and so on.
The need for social media and the interweb - is that moral? I mean, we’re the ones who are addicted to this stuff. We THINK we need it. Of course! A junkie needs his fix. Nobody’s more sincere, pathetic, and convincing than a junky pining for his next dose. So, we should be able to impose standards of morality on the dose-deliverer, you know, like a junky from a nice neighborhood should be treated nicer when he’s making a buy on the street the a poor junkie who lives under a bridge.
I don’t read “the federalist” on a regular basis but how many of their articles lately are about electoral fraud and what we’re going to do about it when the next election comes up? Have they addressed the issue of all the murders and executions taking place in Mexico right now because there was an ELECTION TAKING PLACE? I was reading that 88 people who were candidates for office have died in this last election cycle in Mexico. This is really what libertarians are taking a stand for lately: The Mexicans’ right to come here without any sort of hassle so they can establish rule by drug cartels in the USA. (Like they’re going to let the “libertarians” live and flourish when they do take over.) What’s moral about open borders? Oh, right: It bothers the globalists.
And lastly: “Libertarians” lecturing me about morality. Excuse me while I fall down laughing.
Don't for a second think that Trump lost because of Cancel Culture. He lost because of ballot fraud. Period.
I support Cancel Culture to the limit and to the Feapers who have been deplatformed by their precious Facebook because of Cancel Culture, boo f'ing hoo. You got deplatformed, suck it up, did your 3 comments from the same 3 people for every laughable "all the animals died" bullshit posts really make it worth it?
You should be very very suspicious of this call to end Cancel Culture by someone who makes their living humping their 'work' on social media -- although Gabe is so bland he has not been suspended -- ever! lol.
But look to the truth of it -- Obama today repeated his same bland call to "end Cancel Culture":
"urged party activists to reconsider a culture of "canceling" those who run afoul of their worldview, adding that he believes his daughters' generation understands that people have gone "overboard" in demanding perfection."
Gee Gabe, fellow traveler much? Why do you think Bammy wants to end Cancel Culture? Because it is a Democrat Disease! It hurts Xiden every day in every way.
Cancel Culture has wrecked the Left from politics (Al Frinkin, remember him?), to Hollyweird (Whinestain), to NPR (all of them lol! Garrison Keeledover, remember him?), to ending the careers of bourgeois sexcapaders in many metropolitan strongholds.
#MeToo has been the greatest gift to the conservative movement in a lifetime. We have decapitated more Manhattan and DC insiders than ever imaginable by any other means.
#CancelCulture is the new Constitutional Conservative billy club. I say Cancel Culture today, Cancel Culture tomorrow, Cancel Culture forever!