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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.”
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.
That's a great point I hadn't thought of.
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.
Bret Stephens & Ross Douchface too.
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.
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.
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.
Indeed! Well said.
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.
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.
That's it, I'm officially canceling you.
Agree. I've also noticed people who complain about cancel culture love to conflate rudeness with honesty.
So true. And the very-fair request from those they've hurt to make them whole as an "attack."
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.
They literally renamed the food "Freedom Fries" because France didn't want to invade Iraq with us.
Don’t forget Freedom Toast!
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.
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.
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.
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.)
Thank you! I'm happy to hear you liked it! I'm glad I'm not the only one listening to them, lol.
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.
lol, thanks.
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.
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.”
Agree. To add, there’s also Brad Troemel’s video on it. And @Jay Lesoleil has a lot of great writing on it.