hmmm…continuing to pay an employee that makes questionable statements, which then cause customers to leave. so, keep customers (income), and save costs (fire employee), cancel culture is a win-win on the ledger.
‘How Long a Delay Are We Talking About? Months, like your response to Covid? Years, like your response to Putin? Or decades, like a hug for Don Jr.?’ Jimmy Fallon. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/arts/television/late-night-trump-delay-election.html
In any event, I’ll concede your main point. There are academics in mainly small, liberal arts colleges who have ways of looking at the world that are authoritarian while claiming to be liberal. They try to “cancel” colleagues with whom they disagree. Point taken.
But so what? This has been true for a long, long time. And guess what?
None of these people have any real power outside these tiny elite bubbles. They are powerless over society at large.
Mechanics and electricians and firefighters and bricklayers don’t get laid off because of cancel culture. They don’t even know what it is, nor do they care.
What they care about, and what we should care about, is right wing cancel culture, which has real power, does real damage, and is now weaponizing the phrase “cancel culture” for its own aims.
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The fact that the real danger of cancel culture comes mainly from the right, that (at least in the United States), the right controls the Executive Branch, the Senate, most state governorships, a large part of the judiciary, and most of the C-suite?
And we aren’t talking about how they exercise their cancel culture powers ruthlessly, Colonel Vindman being just one recent example.
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Right wing cancel culture and totalitarianism is the real and present danger.
How is it that the people with intelligence and persuasive skills and self-awareness have such an obvious and massive blind spot?
They almost never talk about right-wing cancel culture. In fact, I don’t think they’ve ever used that phrase.
Why do they attack the weak and ignore the strong?
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But you cannot ignore the exact same problem coming from the right, particularly when right-wing cancel culture actually has effects on the country at large.
Otherwise, the entire enterprise looks like nothing much more than the latest internet religion and click-bait grift.
cdcoventry almost 4 years ago
hmmm…continuing to pay an employee that makes questionable statements, which then cause customers to leave. so, keep customers (income), and save costs (fire employee), cancel culture is a win-win on the ledger.
braindead Premium Member almost 4 years ago
If you’ve ever wondered what you’d have done in 1930s Germany, you’re doing it now.
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#TraitorTrump
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Sometimes employers can’t control the situation. Even they go broke.
Ignatz Premium Member almost 4 years ago
And yet, here you are, Scott.
William Robbins Premium Member almost 4 years ago
‘How Long a Delay Are We Talking About? Months, like your response to Covid? Years, like your response to Putin? Or decades, like a hug for Don Jr.?’ Jimmy Fallon. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/arts/television/late-night-trump-delay-election.html
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
In any event, I’ll concede your main point. There are academics in mainly small, liberal arts colleges who have ways of looking at the world that are authoritarian while claiming to be liberal. They try to “cancel” colleagues with whom they disagree. Point taken.
But so what? This has been true for a long, long time. And guess what?
None of these people have any real power outside these tiny elite bubbles. They are powerless over society at large.
Mechanics and electricians and firefighters and bricklayers don’t get laid off because of cancel culture. They don’t even know what it is, nor do they care.
What they care about, and what we should care about, is right wing cancel culture, which has real power, does real damage, and is now weaponizing the phrase “cancel culture” for its own aims.
✁
The fact that the real danger of cancel culture comes mainly from the right, that (at least in the United States), the right controls the Executive Branch, the Senate, most state governorships, a large part of the judiciary, and most of the C-suite?
And we aren’t talking about how they exercise their cancel culture powers ruthlessly, Colonel Vindman being just one recent example.
✁
Right wing cancel culture and totalitarianism is the real and present danger.
How is it that the people with intelligence and persuasive skills and self-awareness have such an obvious and massive blind spot?
They almost never talk about right-wing cancel culture. In fact, I don’t think they’ve ever used that phrase.
Why do they attack the weak and ignore the strong?
✁
But you cannot ignore the exact same problem coming from the right, particularly when right-wing cancel culture actually has effects on the country at large.
Otherwise, the entire enterprise looks like nothing much more than the latest internet religion and click-bait grift.
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https://medium.com/@BrianBeckcom/right-wing-cancel-culture-is-the-real-threat-why-are-we-ignoring-it-3d95435df8bc
theotherther1 almost 4 years ago
Finally, the strip ends!
rossevrymn almost 4 years ago
Snore
MichaelSFC90 almost 4 years ago
Comparing Trump to the Nazis. Oh, my. How original.
Kip W almost 4 years ago
The moving eraser rubs, and having rubbed, moves on.
gammaguy almost 4 years ago
This “cancel culture”… is that anything like a yoghurt culture?
Kip W almost 4 years ago
200 kids (possibly more) infected with Coronavirus at an overnight camp in Georgia.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid19-outbreak-georgia-summer-camp
ndblackirish97 almost 4 years ago
Now you know how left wing Progressives, Social Democrats feel, and anti-war media personalities feel. They’ve been getting canceled for decades.