Peak Cancel Culture? Don’t Bet on It

American Greatness ^ | 6 Mar, 2021 | Roger Kimball

[MtnClimber]

Here’s a question that I do not know the answer to: Is the current insanity of “cancel culture” cresting or just getting started?

Last week in this space, I told you about how Amazon suddenly and without any explanation decided to delist Ryan Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment from all its emporia—audible.com and abebooks.com as well as Amazon itself. (The link I provide goes directly to the publisher).

We published that book at Encounter some three years ago. Why did Amazon, the self-described “world’s largest book store,” finally get around to placing it on their unofficial but still very potent Index Librorum Prohibitorum? Since Amazon has thus far refused to enlighten us, I don’t know.

SNIP

According to Marcuse, genuine tolerance dictates “intolerance against movement from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.” How does that differ from simple tyranny, which is power wielded arbitrarily? He doesn’t say. But it is clear that the deft application of the idea of “repressive tolerance” helps to explain the vertiginous and apparently arbitrary operation of our new censors. Mein Kampf escapes their obloquy while Ryan Anderson excites it because When Harry Became Sally challenges the next step in the progress of familial deconstruction in a way that the Führer’s exhortations do not.

[MtnClimber]

It is a ratchet effect where the conservatives are constrained one click at a time.

[Jonty30]

The left has to burn itself out with murder before they moderate.

[bk1000]

“ The left has to burn itself out with murder before they moderate.”

They’d moderate pretty dang quick if our side would only fight back. It’s tough when the media seemingly has their back, but how difficult is it to stand up, ridicule their foolishness, and proclaim enough is enough?

[RummyChick]

Pepe LePew is now a rapist.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[BradyLS]

Until blood starts being drawn over it, I’d suggest it hasn’t peaked yet.

[SMARTY]

Woke clowns will force all of us of to donate our eyes to the eye bank. Then everyone with blue eyes will have THEIRS taken out and replaced with our brown ones!

[Travis McGee]

THERE ARE NO GUARDRAILS ON THE LEFT

by Matt Bracken | Jan 27, 2021

America is entering a terrible period in its history at an accelerating pace, now that the Left has taken control of all the critical reins of power in the government, as well as the mainstream media, social media, big tech, Hollywood and academia. Unfortunately, history teaches with laser clarity that there are no guardrails restraining the behavior of the Left when it is so empowered.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3929301/posts

https://www.americanpartisan.org/2021/01/there-are-no-guardrails-on-the-left/

[robel]

The Left has a plan. They have an endgame. Cancel culture isn’t just random attacks. It’s a process. They plan to eliminate Western culture and replace it with Leftist culture.

[MtnClimber]

Communist governments humiliate their subjects by making them repeat things that are clearly lies.

[Rummyfan]

But the seeming arbitrariness of the interdiction is part of the point. It is, as they say, a feature, not a bug, for the aspiring totalitarians seeking to police what we can read and say and publish. Lenin once said that Communism meant “keeping track of everything.” We don’t call it “totalitarianism” for nothing. What they seek is total control of every aspect of our lives. Last week it was a book by Ryan Anderson and a speech by Donald Trump. This week it is some books by Dr. Seuss.

Indeed.

[cowboyusa]

Communism and Marxism have always been about culture more than Economics. Marx said it himself, the past must be swept out of the way.