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Cancel Culture for Serious People
American Thinker ^ | 29 Jun, 2022 | Jon N. Hall

Posted on 06/29/2022 4:05:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Today’s America is not a place for subtlety and nuance. Today’s youth seem especially incapable of handling fine distinctions. No interesting heterodox mix of positions will be tolerated; total conformity is required. Cleave to the party line in toto, lest ye be canceled.

“Cancel Culture” is the new regime whereby one can lose one’s livelihood, one’s reputation, and even one’s friends for not hewing to every last tenet of the reigning orthodoxy. The gay journalist Chadwick Moore learned about the intolerance of left-wing cancelers when he came out as a conservative (italics added):

"I began to realize that maybe my opinions just didn’t fit in with the liberal status quo, which seems to mean that you must absolutely hate Trump, his supporters and everything they believe. If you dare not to protest or boycott Trump, you are a traitor."

If you dare to question liberal stances or make an effort toward understanding why conservatives think the way they do, you are a traitor.

You must kneel before Rome, you must grovel at her feet. For wokesters, it’ll never do to be just “99 and 44/100% pure,” like the old Ivory Soap ads claimed. No, my fair cousin, one needs to be 100% pure. Otherwise, you might just be an anti-social deviant, or maybe even an adherent of deviationism.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 06/29/2022 4:05:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The worst thing is how woke the HR departments at large companies have become.


2 posted on 06/29/2022 4:06:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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got it... cancel culture is just RINO-talk from the other side...


3 posted on 06/29/2022 4:14:48 AM PDT by Blurp2 (...though it's tawdry and plain, it's a lovely old lane...)
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HR is largely populated with the stupidest people in the company.
Woke, stupid, and powerful is truly a path to corporate destruction.
I’m so glad I am a remote worker…


4 posted on 06/29/2022 4:20:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber
If you dare to question liberal stances or make an effort toward understanding why conservatives think the way they do, you are a traitor.

This works just fine for the Left in any situation in which they have dominance (ex. colleges). But I think it increasingly fails in any area where normal people can be found.

If you ask a Conservative to explain the Liberal view of gun control, abortion, or taxing the rich, most Conservatives can do a credible job of explaining the views of the Left. And then make rational counter-arguments.

The Left can't do that. Conservatives are pro-life, because we're Nazis. Conservatives are not afraid of guns, because we're stupid. Conservatives don't want to tax the bejeezus out of the rich, because we're racists.

Yes, at Harvard or Yale or your company's HR department, these are "compelling" arguments against the racist, stupid, Nazi-like policies of Republicans. But at some point normal people might notice that Conservatives can debate issues and Liberals can only scream insults.

5 posted on 06/29/2022 4:24:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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It’s true. Those that can’t do, teach. Those that can’t teach, teach Phys. Ed. Those that can’t teach Phys. Ed., work in HR. That or Starbucks...


6 posted on 06/29/2022 4:27:52 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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It’s so painful. Hearing a EE with 30 years experience not getting to choose the right candidate for the job. So an obese Karen or LaQuiesha, with zero comprehension of what electrical engineering even is, picks some melanin or sits to pee candidate…


7 posted on 06/29/2022 4:32:09 AM PDT by EEGator
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People on the left better start realizing that the cancel culture will be coming for them soon also. Those that are in charge are going further and further left and if those under them don’t follow, they will be cancelled. How far left can half of this country go before there will be more and more of them wanting off the bus? Cancel culture is an absolutely horrible thing in this country.


8 posted on 06/29/2022 5:22:32 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Freedom first. MAGA forever!)
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Speaking of cancel culture...it worls both ways, its reciprocal.

Almost 1000 out of 5000 New York City Police detectives have retired and left their jobs. This is in reaction to both defunding and demoralizing the police with No Bail LAws and release of felons.

Soon the various police departments all over the nation will be devolving.

And where will many of these retired detectives go?

Many will go to work for MAGA. And they know the neighborhoods.


9 posted on 06/29/2022 5:46:08 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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10 posted on 06/29/2022 5:52:30 AM PDT by sauropod (It's too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy cutting hair.)
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SPQR


11 posted on 06/29/2022 7:46:40 AM PDT by dljordan
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believe in free enterprise?

threat to democracy, canceled

believe in individual liberty?

threat to democracy, canceled

believe in the Constitution?

threat to democracy, canceled

you are also violent, guns confiscated


12 posted on 06/29/2022 12:46:23 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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