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Liberals Feel Sting of “Cancel Culture”
The Assocation of Mature American Citizens ^ | August 3, 2020 | Robert B. Charles

Posted on 08/08/2020 8:27:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Liberals are suddenly realizing that “cancel culture” can snap back – and it hurts. The liberal idea was to “cancel” people who raise “offensive” or “objectionable” topics, summarily ending unwanted discussions by intimidating people into abandoning free speech rights. It was always anti-American. Now, it turns out the left’s beast, is eating them too.

Upending the First Amendment by spurning people with different views is a dead end – legally, politically, and socially. Interestingly, conservatives generally offer to debate while liberals stifle dialogue. Now, they are being stifled.

Last week, some noted liberals wrote an “open letter” decrying how unthinking, zealous leftists were shutting them down. Former New York Times editor Bari Weiss and Harper’s columnist Thomas Williams were joined by Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling, activist Noam Chomsky, and feminist Gloria Steinem, in this conservative turn. They rediscovered the First Amendment.

Suddenly, having been shunted off stage, out of newsrooms, and denied the right to opine, they took to Bill Maher’s show to say “open debate without fear of repercussions might be a good idea,” since the absence of free expression might lead to violence. Behold – an epiphany.

While the left swarms America’s streets, these liberals penned a letter. Said Weiss, their letter was a “warning cry from inside the institutions,” signaling the need to reverse course. Free speech apparently does matter, after all. Why? Because blocking it is “social murder” these enlightened liberals professed on Maher’s show – a curious venue for lefty confessions.

Weiss explained. “What is going on now with this culture of illiberalism is different from criticism.” Criticism is good, but “cancel culture is not criticism, it is about punishment … making a person radioactive… taking away their job.” She decried her former employer.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; bariweiss; billmaher; blm; cancelcult; freespeech; insurrection; jkrowling; leftists; liberals; offendinistas; revolution; woketaliban
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1 posted on 08/08/2020 8:27:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

PING!


2 posted on 08/08/2020 8:28:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The liberal idea was to “cancel” people who raise “offensive” or “objectionable” topics

The mistake the elitist white Libturds who began the whole "cancel culture" thing was in assuming that those coming up behind them were in on the ruse.

They thought it was understood that "offensive" and "objectionable" were descriptions that would only apply to anything Conservatives, Republicans, Christians and NRA Members said, did, or believed.

It never occurred to them that these little snot-nosed miscreants they created would take the terms as defined in the dictionary and apply them across the board.

Embrace the suck, Libturds. You created these monsters.

3 posted on 08/08/2020 8:41:56 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle

I honestly don’t believe those libtards learned a damn thing.


4 posted on 08/08/2020 8:45:32 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: Texas Eagle

They thought they only had to outrun the next guy while being charged by a bear. Oops


5 posted on 08/08/2020 8:45:51 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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To: chuckb87

And they never will.


6 posted on 08/08/2020 8:48:39 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Fledermaus

Yep. Now they’re only hope is that the crocodile will eat them last.


7 posted on 08/08/2020 8:49:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“cancel culture” can snap back

Cancel culture's the modern day version of the old Salem Witch Trials... history will NOT be kind to these liberal 'elite' hysterics.

8 posted on 08/08/2020 8:51:52 PM PDT by GOPJ (Leo Terrell/ Mike Adams/ Bari Weiss /Bernell Trammell/John Kass/ Evan Osborne)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference; the doubter fights only with himself.”

Since all leftists MUST apparently all believe the same things this was inevitable - watch as all the apostates gradually come back into the fold and this talk of eating one’s own fades away.


9 posted on 08/08/2020 8:56:31 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
".... Behold – an epiphany...."

Translation: "No shit Sherlock".

10 posted on 08/08/2020 9:02:53 PM PDT by HotHunt
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Bump


11 posted on 08/08/2020 9:10:43 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Who could have guessed the beast had such a voracious appetite?


12 posted on 08/08/2020 9:12:18 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Life is anecdotal)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

See “Maximilien Robespierre” for further info.


13 posted on 08/08/2020 9:13:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Texas Eagle

LOL!


14 posted on 08/08/2020 9:14:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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15 posted on 08/08/2020 9:28:52 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It was all shyts and giggles deriving gratification from those shamed and cancelled for publicly saying ALL LIVES MATTER and questioning any liberal orthodoxy. You all created this monster, this is what you wanted, this is what you get, and all that goes with it! Karma!


16 posted on 08/08/2020 9:46:03 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Liberalism/Progressiveism/Socialism/Communism/Marxism. All various flavors of the same mentality.

All of them can be easily condensed to:

“Do what we tell you and STFU.”

17 posted on 08/08/2020 10:01:55 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

First you start doing the cancelling, then you get cancelled yourself with an ice axe in the back of the head.

18 posted on 08/08/2020 10:22:47 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after az><n election.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping


19 posted on 08/08/2020 11:03:31 PM PDT by Marinario
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To: GOPJ

“... history will NOT be kind to these liberal ‘elite’ hysterics.”

Unfortunately,
if the Marxists win this November, due to current technology there will be no history (other than the ministry of truth)


20 posted on 08/08/2020 11:40:16 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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