"Cancel Culture" is a made-up thing by those who complain about changes they don't like. Else the MAGAnons would be bitching about Colin Kaeppernick being "canceled" from football.
It's called "social evolution". Things change, society as whole continues to evolve & advance, old bullshit falls away, despite those who would cling to the past in desperation because they can't keep up. The Grand Old Poo-Poo Heads politicize it in their panic over being evolved out of existence. "Dr. Seuss was cancelled by the Dems!" No, the publishing company decided to put a few titles out of print because they don't reflect modern understandings of race and other things. Good on them. Plenty of Seuss books still out there, numbnuts.
You can't stop evolution. All this crap will pass, albeit slower than it has to be.
Al Franken would like a staunch anti-Cancel Culture voice like Tucker Carlson to go back in time and make the same arguments.
Is It Time to Cancel Cancel Culture? One of the loudest crusaders against cancel culture squares off against a person said to be one of its victims.
"Cancel Culture" is a made-up thing by those who complain about changes they don't like. Else the MAGAnons would be bitching about Colin Kaeppernick being "canceled" from football.
It's called "social evolution". Things change, society as whole continues to evolve & advance, old bullshit falls away, despite those who would cling to the past in desperation because they can't keep up. The Grand Old Poo-Poo Heads politicize it in their panic over being evolved out of existence. "Dr. Seuss was cancelled by the Dems!" No, the publishing company decided to put a few titles out of print because they don't reflect modern understandings of race and other things. Good on them. Plenty of Seuss books still out there, numbnuts.
You can't stop evolution. All this crap will pass, albeit slower than it has to be.
i grazed the article and i think that they discuss a few valid issues
one being something captured digitally when a person was young (think teens with cell phones and social media) and dragging that out of the past and using it to wreck their career today
there are others
is there an understanding of history and context, and what is the path to common sense and forgiveness?
i'm not sure that any of us know someone that hasn't said or written something silly or something they regret
even comedy and film are obviously loaded with "original sin"
'Freedom of speech' is fast becoming a contradiction in terms that would fit perfectly in Orwell's 1984. It now seems to be 'Freedom of saying only what I agree with'.
Whilst the trend of shouting people down, cancelling them, smearing them rather than debating the issues, outrageously partisan double standards and the rest of the Ministry of Love tactics started in the US, like so many things the UK here is quickly following suit.
Anyone who thinks the tech companies are working in our interests rather than the interests of their billionaire owners needs to wake up.
I think people in the Western democracies have gone mad, either vanishing up their own backsides to avoid facing up to the harsh realities of life outside their little bubbles or cowed into acquiescence. The unintended consequences will damage us for a long time, if we ever recover from them at all. Meanwhile the likes of China laugh and carry on their quest to replace our namby-pamby democracies with hard-edged paternalistic communism.
You wouldn't be clapping if somebody called you a clapper and said you had a big flapper; because that's the kind of thing that goes on around here. Plus your big head is wide...
âYesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service,â a National Guardsmen told Politico. âWithin 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed.â
âAll National Guard troops were told to vacate the Capitol and nearby congressional buildings on Thursday, and to set up mobile command centers outside or in nearby hotels, another Guardsman confirmed,â Politico reported. âThey were told to take their rest breaks during their 12-hour shifts outside and in parking garages, the person said.â
âSpeaker Pelosi personally met with the Secretary of the Army to demand 14,000 National Guard troops be deployed to the Capitol,â a source familiar with the security discussions at the Capitol told The Daily Wire in a statement. âBut there was no logistical plan provided by the Speakerâs office on where the service members would sleep.â
That's the military's job to do the logistics, can't hang this stupid decision by the sergeant at arms on her. BTW the decision was reversed nearly right away with a few phone calls from democrat Tammy Duckworth.
