Cancel culture is losing a scholarship because you sang a hard-r along with your favorite rapper on TikTok.
Cancel culture is having your food-truck review-bombed because you decided to learn how to make authentic tortillas in Mexico.
Cancel culture is having your food-truck review-bombed because you decided to learn how to make authentic tortillas in Mexico.
Cancel culture is your employer receiving threats because you posted something from your vacation about how different the culture is in another part of the world.
Cancel culture is getting mobbed for wearing a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo.
Cancel culture is getting mobbed for wearing a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo.
Cancel culture is getting suspended for failing to use neo-pronouns.
Cancel culture is getting you website shut down for articles that challenge scientific consensus.
Cancel culture is getting hit in the head with a bike lock for wearing a red cap.
Cancel culture is getting you website shut down for articles that challenge scientific consensus.
Cancel culture is getting hit in the head with a bike lock for wearing a red cap.
Cancel culture is out-of-proportion, unforeseeable consequences for newly-decided social faux pas.
Cancel culture is NOT the reaction you get when you cheer on the attempt to cancel someone in the most permanent way possible: by assassination.
Cancel culture is NOT the reaction you get when you cheer on the attempt to cancel someone in the most permanent way possible: by assassination.
The left polices social boundaries so much harder than the right. The left demands observation of all of their orthodoxies on pain of loss of property, livelihood, and even freedom.
What examples of right wing cancel culture even are there? Product boycotts? Wrongly-labeled book bans? The occasional pushback against a would-be canceller?
I researched for this thread. Conservative parents voicing objections to curriculum at school board meetings are called right-wing cancel culture.
Two of the most frequently cited examples of right-wing cancel culture are McCarthyism and Jim Crow, I kid you not!
Two of the most frequently cited examples of right-wing cancel culture are McCarthyism and Jim Crow, I kid you not!
I’m sure with a little more digging, I could find an example of right-wing cancel culture that arrives on par with the left’s enforcement of their hegemony.
But in light of what’s going on right now, calling out—and yes, even reporting them to their employers—those who praise attempted murder and lament that he wasn’t successful isn’t cancel culture. It’s a healthy social impulse trying to reassert itself.
If you made it this far, and want to keep going, every post of this thread makes a solid point. Fully endorsed:
https://twitter.com/gitabushi/status/1813715243924697571
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