From this FB post:
"Do you really not believe cancel culture exists?"
I don't believe it exists *as portrayed by bigots and the people trying to shield them from accountability*
My biggest annoyance of this whole thing is the refusal of these people to define any of the terms. It seems to me that "cancel culture" is an almost completely amorphous concept that is exactly as broad or as narrow as the complainers need it to be.
Was the anti-communist freakout of yesteryear "cancel culture?"
Are the decades-long efforts of the Israeli apartheid state and its American lemmings to criminalize and brutalize criticism of Israeli government policy "cancel culture?" Not if you ask
Reason Magazine
.Is my entire life having the music I listen to and the games I play being threatened with censorship by social conservative creeps "cancel culture?"
When the John Birch Society got a Doors concert canceled in Ohio in the 70s, imbuing my mom with a lifelong hatred of JBS, was that cancel culture?
Or is the right just upset that now they're the ones whose views our culture has (ever so slowly) turned against?
If "cancel culture" means a culture where people who say bigoted things are at risk of being fired or boycotted or deplatformed or otherwise peacefully ostracized, then sure it exists. And it's welcome. People should be held accountable for the bigoted things they say. I consider this a marked improvement over the list of reasons conservatives have been canceling people for generations.
If "cancel culture" means a grand conspiracy to make it impossible for conservatives and libertarians to express themselves, then no I don't think that exists. It exists only insofar as conservatives and libertarians can't express themselves without saying horrid things about entire groups of people based on arbitrary characteristics.
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