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Samantha Millar's avatar

These “poor victims” are also huge cowards. They point the finger at the left because anyone who calls out the people they want to hang with puts their desire to rise to that state at risk. It also makes them feel targeted. Clarkson is a great example of this.

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Joe Wrote's avatar

That's a great point I hadn't thought of.

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Samantha Millar's avatar

It's very "stop making the bully focus on people like me, it hurts my chances to be in the established order". David Brooks also excels at this. Note that they always lash out at the left, because it is the establishment they want to be a part of.

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E. Lewis's avatar

Bret Stephens & Ross Douchface too.

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Mommadillo's avatar

Would someone please cancel me? I could use the attention.

Re: this is all the left’s fault

Shit, Joe - you know damn well the only reason they keep us around is so they can blame stuff on us.

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Joe Wrote's avatar

lol, tell me about it. I remember when the Bachelor host said some racist stuff and was "cancelled" with tens of millions in buy outs. Or former Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder, who was "canceled" for sexual assault by being forced to sell the team for only $6 billion.

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Rick Massimo's avatar

Speaking of football, Colin Kaepernick is the only person I know of who has actually been canceled. But our free speech warriors never mention him for some reason I can’t qwhite put my finger on.

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E. Lewis's avatar

Indeed! Well said.

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E. Lewis's avatar

Poor Dan Snyder, smh. All the guy did was run an almost comically evil workplace, produce a shitty product for 20 yrs on the field, and behave like a coked up baby- and he only made a $5.3 billion profit when “forced” to sell. It’s such a pity.

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E. Lewis's avatar

What if we here in the comments agree to cancel one another? It’s mutual aid of a sort. We could do it in a round-robin format.

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Brucker's avatar

That's it, I'm officially canceling you.

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jane's avatar

Agree. I've also noticed people who complain about cancel culture love to conflate rudeness with honesty.

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Joe Wrote's avatar

So true. And the very-fair request from those they've hurt to make them whole as an "attack."

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Erik Heddergott's avatar

The Cancel Power in a Capitalist Society is not on the „Left Side“ but the „Right Side“.

History shows that it is the Right that Cancels every other Day.

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Joe Wrote's avatar

They literally renamed the food "Freedom Fries" because France didn't want to invade Iraq with us.

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E. Lewis's avatar

Don’t forget Freedom Toast!

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Erik Heddergott's avatar

The USA, Great Britain and France didn’t like it when Germany was not willing for the killing of Lybia‘s Ghaddafi.

The USA and GB didn’t like it when Germany did not in Sadam Husseins Weapons of Massdestructions.

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E. Lewis's avatar

Yeeeaaah… I’m not gonna defend Qaddafi. But yes, the French & Germans were right in 2002/2003. Many, many, many Americans also knew they were right.

Seriously though, Qaddafi was a monster. And everything that has happened in Libya since his unceremonious ending is his, and his collaborators, fault.

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Erik Heddergott's avatar

The French wanted to get rid of Qaddafi, coz he was a Threat to their Post-Colonial Monetarian Grip on West Africa.

As you all can see now, is that with a Decade of Delay France is now been thrown out of many West African Countries.

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E. Lewis's avatar

That was fucking fantastic, Joe. You’re writing is always interesting, often challenging, and skillfully rendered; but this one was off the charts. Cheers & keep it up. (As a fellow sicko who Indulges his masochistic streak by listening to Bari Weiss & those fucking 50 yr old wannabe frat-boys at ‘The Fifth Column’, and other ‘heterodox’ 🤮🤮🤮 circle-jerks- It’s nice to know I’m not alone in my perversion.)

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Joe Wrote's avatar

Thank you! I'm happy to hear you liked it! I'm glad I'm not the only one listening to them, lol.

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Brucker's avatar

As the famous poem goes: “First, the woke mob came for a drugged-up racehorse. And I did not speak up, for I was not a gullible dipshit.”

That truly is poetry.

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Joe Wrote's avatar

lol, thanks.

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Rachel Baldes's avatar

The Atlantic ushered in the real scourge of legacy journalism in this country; the laziest "both sides" false equivalence, assign moral standing to the enemy garbage. Now it's everywhere.

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MD's avatar

I mean read any Freddie DeBoer critique of cancel culture if you really want to know the issues with it. Thinking it happened only to elites and led to more attention for those that were “cancelled” really takes some effort to ignore the corrosive problems of “cancel culture.”

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Godelieve's avatar

Agree. To add, there’s also Brad Troemel’s video on it. And @Jay Lesoleil has a lot of great writing on it.

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RemRem's avatar

Didn’t leftist professor and Jacobin contributor Matt Karp also sign the Harper’s letter?

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