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Cancel culture versus conservative boycotting of Bud, light target Disney. It's not the same is cancel culture right?
The voice as I hear ^ | NL Z

Posted on 07/09/2023 2:19:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Help me formulate a good argument that cancel culture is not the same thing as our conservative boycott of Bud Light, target and Disney.

I don't think they're the same.

Cancel culture is opposition to any opposing voice.

In my mind our boycotting is not an opposition to alternative viewpoints , but opposition to immoral targeting of children.

Thank you.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: boycott; budlight; cancelculture; conservative; disney; excellentpoints; greatpointsmade; inchitchat; queers
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1 posted on 07/09/2023 2:19:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

For starters, people who support the Cancel Culture are grooming our kids. People who support the Bud Light Boycott are NOT doing that.


2 posted on 07/09/2023 2:21:23 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: NoLibZone

I would not call what we’re doing a “culture.” We’re simply fighting back at cancel culture, and the way you do that is you use it against the people who are pursuing it.


3 posted on 07/09/2023 2:23:19 PM PDT by Brilliant
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The intent is throw so much insanity at us we can’t figure out what to do next.

The world is on the verge of global nuclear war and global famine, all at the hands of the inbred globalist billionaire “elite.”

But you feel an esoteric debate about the difference between cancel culture and boycott is more important.

We are thereby doomed to global nuclear war and famine.


4 posted on 07/09/2023 2:27:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: NoLibZone
In cancel culture somebody decides to manipulate others into punishing others. This includes social pressure and lying about them. Calling them names and dehumanize them. Calling their boss not because you have any grievance with how they did their job, but to inform their boss of what politically incorrect belief they have which has nothing to do with their employment.

In the Bud Light type situation or even as far back as the Dixie Girls situation or the taking a knee in the National Anthem situation there is no lying or manipulating others. The consumer is reacting to the product or brand going beyond just providing a product and starting to push stuff they don't like onto culture. Nobody cared if some guys working at Bud Light were woke. They started caring when Bud Light as a brand started pushing woke. Nobody cared what the Dixie Chicks thought about politics...until the Dixie Chicks made political opinion part of their concert. Nobody cares about Hollywood being woke, until Hollywood starts pushing their wokeness into their product. Nobody cared about the political opinions of the NFL players until the NFL players made a point of expressing their disgust for America at the games.

In cancel culture, its seek and expose and lie and destroy people for just disagreeing.

In the other cases its just people trying to get away from brands and products that have a woke message shoved out as part of them.

5 posted on 07/09/2023 2:27:44 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Any number of Russians could haman ve dropped that bag in the white-house....)
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To: NoLibZone

Having standards is not a cancel culture. Refusing the facts of others to support deviant behaviors, violating the rights of others, and committing crimes, is the cancel culture.


6 posted on 07/09/2023 2:29:12 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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Boycott: don’t feel like buying your product any more.

Cancel culture: because I don’t like what you say, I’m not just going to stop listening to you, but will work to ensure NOBODY ELSE can listen to you, by making threats against anyone supplying you with a platform.

With Bud, conservatives stopped buying. We did not pressure stores to stop carrying it. That’s the difference.


7 posted on 07/09/2023 2:31:59 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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FWIW: Canceling is banishment. You must go away. You can’t speak or sell your product. Boycott is a simple choice not to buy a product. I’ll add that if the Left truly believes in banishment for past wrongs (most notably slavery) they would ban the Democrat Party (see the Conerstone Speech).


8 posted on 07/09/2023 2:32:46 PM PDT by LucienCA13 (sorry if you are microaggrieved)
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To: NoLibZone
Boycotts are the consumer exercising a free market choice to not buy or patronize. Cancel culture is the government/corporatist complex denying you a choice in what you buy and whom you patronize.

The two are not compatible in any way.

9 posted on 07/09/2023 2:32:57 PM 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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To: NoLibZone
Cancel culture is a confluence of governments, corporations, social media, and "celebrity-ism" to punish an individual for complaining/questioning the status quo. It seeks to force every person into one, specific goal -- Leftism.

The BudLight boycott is a grassroots effort to tell a corporation, "hey, I don't like that you did this, so you don't get my money." It isn't intended to eliminate the corporation from existence, it merely wants to persuade the corporation to recognize what made them a corporation in the first place. That is -- the individual's choice of where to spend money.

My 2 cents.

10 posted on 07/09/2023 2:34:42 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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There is a big difference. And I don’t mean just because they are wrong and we are right.

We’re refusing to buy Bud Lite. If we were they we would be demanding that Bud Lite be shut down. That’s a pretty big difference. It’s how they operate vs how we operate.


11 posted on 07/09/2023 2:35:45 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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People have the right to speak. Preventing people from speaking is what cancel culture is about.

My not buying Bud Light just shows my husband has functioning taste buds. :)

Seriously it is not canceling them, they can still speak, their platform is not restricted, they can do as they like. They can just do it without my money.

12 posted on 07/09/2023 2:36:22 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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Cancel culture is eliminating someone’s right to exist because you don’t like what they think, believe, act etc. Libs love this because it is very authoritarian, very dictatorial.

What is happening to Bud Light, Disney and Ben & Jerry’s is simple economics. Libs hate this because it is John Q public making decisions on their own....which Libs tend to hate.

It is really fascinating....libs used to hate institutions: Government, corporations, organized religion. Now, they love these things as tools to get the vast unwashed to comply.

I am old enough to remember when Americans were deathly afraid everything was going to be made in Japan.


13 posted on 07/09/2023 2:39:28 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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To: NoLibZone

The masculine do not hesitate to defend the vulnerable.

They are also meek. Meaning, strong, but patient, and under control (akin to “peace through strength”.

The meek have another characteristic, in that they are ultimately willing, when patience reaches its natural end, to visit negative consequences on selfish individuals and deranged organizations bent on destroying civil society.


14 posted on 07/09/2023 2:40:40 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: NoLibZone

It’s more of a battle on morality.


15 posted on 07/09/2023 2:41:42 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: BobL

That is correct.


16 posted on 07/09/2023 2:43:02 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: NoLibZone
Merely not buying something isn't cancel culture.

Nobody is being silenced or forced to close their bank accounts.

17 posted on 07/09/2023 2:43:10 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: CodeToad

Indeed.


18 posted on 07/09/2023 2:43:20 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ealgeone

You are correct.


19 posted on 07/09/2023 2:43:34 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: NoLibZone

Hoity-toity Republicans got us into this by saying, no matter how dirty the Democrats fight, we must always follow the Marqess of Queensbury rules and respond like gentle folk.

Then we lost the culture and now maybe the Constitution as well.

Sorry, I won’t kill babies like they do, but I think it’s time to let the DemocRats know we are all playing serious now.


20 posted on 07/09/2023 2:43:47 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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