Progressives and Cancel Culture

[blackforest]

You want to talk violence? Really? Look at the issue through a wider lens instead of cherry-picking cases to play the Conservative-victim card. The radical Right is dangerous, and murder is the ultimate expression of Cancel Culture.

Alt-Right group threatens to assassinate Milwaukee activist Frank Nitty in effort to stop peace marches | Milwaukee Independent

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-m...ecret-life-on-pro-trump-white-supremacy-sites

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/09/surge-in-alt-right-violence-at-least-43-murders-in-the-last-four-years/

 

[Adamek]

The “examples” you cite, at least two years old, are of mentally disturbed individuals. As for your sources of news, this is what is said of Salon.
Salon has a far left bias in its daily reviews of domestic politics and provocative cultural topics.

On the other hand, crimes commited by the leftist mobs are examples of mental derangement of an entire generation. Thousands are participating in this mayhem.

 

[blackforest]

Salon has a far left bias in its daily reviews of domestic politics and provocative cultural topics

It’s not like I can depend on “American Spectator” and “National Review” to cover stories like this. If these Right-wing sources can be posted here, without getting called out, then I may consult the source that I choose.

The “examples” you cite, at least two years old, are of mentally disturbed individuals.

. . . Influenced by the toxic rhetoric of the Far Right. But then, what is a group if not individuals in the aggregate?

 

[Adamek]

Adamek:

Salon has a far left bias in its daily reviews of domestic politics and provocative cultural topics

It’s not like I can depend on “American Spectator” and “National Review” to cover stories like this. If these Right-wing sources can be posted here, without getting called out, then I may consult the source that I choose.

Stories can be “covered” or “manufactured”. Yours is an example of a fabrication based on a single thread.

 

[Adamek]

ut then, what is a group if not individuals in the aggregate?

But here, you have a “group” of one individual. LOL

 

[annem]

t’s not like I can depend on “American Spectator” and “National Review” to cover stories like this. If these Right-wing sources can be posted here, without getting called out, then I may consult the source that I choose.

Sorry, what you cannot do is disprove the stories irregardless of what site they came. Please try. The evidence is overwhelming that the left has a cancel culture. That the cancel culture is strangling our universities, making it impossible to study many areas. The left has silenced conservative students and professors.

Come on, this is simply undeniable. I am simply stunned that you can’t see this. How do you explain away all those incidents? How do you explain away all the people who have been fired or terrorized for daring to hold a thought different from whatever the current fad is? How do you explain what happened to J K Rowling? Do you feel what happened to Rowling is right?

Moreover, the current ruin of our nation, the cities that have been burned, looted, all the art vandalized or destroyed, is a direct result of the poisonous leftism that is preached in university after university.

 

[pearleaf]

I’ve gotten quite popular in my busy absence!

If you have a laptop, a smart phone, any clothing whatsoever, anything at all, it was probably produced in sweatshops in Asia that use child labor. So, YOU are supporting exploitative economic practices. STOP IT NOW!

I wasn’t expecting a comrade on this forum! Now, comrade, I know that you know this, but this is for the benefit of others: there is no ethical consumption in a capitalist system. So, those of us who are aware of this have two choices: 1) We can forfeit our agency and power, separate from society, but leave everyone else to suffer. This is immoral. Or, 2) We can use the tools we have available to try to tear down capitalism and its exploitation from within, while trying to mitigate as much harm as possible in the meanwhile. This is the only moral option.

There seems to be a contradiction there.

I didn’t think Jesus was being contradictory in Matthew 7:5. How can we hope to help others when we can’t see the root of the problem clearly ourselves?

My husband and I know a number of climatologist researchers in universities across the US. One fled the field, a number of others are too terrified to publish anything that touches on climate change because of the leftist cancel culture:

You should encourage them to publish their findings (and point me to their papers when they are published)! If they can actually demonstrate that the current consensus is incorrect, they are in line for at least a Nobel Prize!

 

[annem]

You should encourage them to publish their findings (and point me to their papers when they are published)! If they can actually demonstrate that the current consensus is incorrect, they are in line for at least a Nobel Prize!

You did read what happened to the professor who published about polar bears, didn’t you? And that was within the last year, and not even mentioning what happened to others who published articles earlier? So, obviously, unless I wanted to injure these people, I would only tell them to be quiet…

This is the end result of leftism cancel culture: to demolish the intellectual life of our universities.

 

[Dr_Meinheimer]

If you want a great example of Right-wing cancel culture, look at Colin Kaepernick and how the NFL kowtowed to demands that such expressions be censored.

Say what??

The NFL has given a full-throated endorsement to him, and in fact, now allows (selectively) putting decals on their helmets for those “impacted by systemic racism.”

Now we can’t put the names of murdered policemen on our helmets, but victims of systemic racism is just fine.

What garbage. The NFL brass is either a bunch of one-sided liberals or they are cowards. They and the other major sports leagues are bending over backwards for one issue and one issue only. Now tell me this isn’t one sided?

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/remember-when-the-nfl-refused-the-dallas-cowboys-request-to-honor-murdered-police-officers-we-do/

Also, give me counterexamples for the myriad of people having the careers destroyed for having an opnion. Like this guy, for example:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/boeing-comms-resign-women-combat/

How many people have been canned for writing an article 32 years ago in favor of women in combat? I can find no record of any.

The list of those cancelled is almost exclusively people who did something that offends those on the left. I can’t see any cases (perhaps there are) where someone was “cancelled” for saying or doing something that only offended conservatives and no one else. At best, you have a handful being canceled for offedning both groups.

 

[Tommy999]

Would what happened to Roseanne Barr (kicked off the TV show named after her) be an example of left wing ‘Cancel Culture’?

 

[Elizabeth3]

The list of those cancelled is almost exclusively people who did something that offends those on the left. I can’t see any cases (perhaps there are) where someone was “cancelled” for saying or doing something that only offended conservatives and no one else. At best, you have a handful being canceled for offedning both groups.

This is true. Although Louie Gohmert has decided to turn their affinity for cancel culture back around on them. Brilliant.

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[pearleaf]

You did read what happened to the professor who published about polar bears, didn’t you?

The source you used wasn’t worth my time. Do you have a source that is somewhat reliable? I prefer to avoid sources rife with conspiracy theories and misinformation as a general rule. Thank you.