Liberal writers, activists sign open letter calling to end 'cancel culture'

Fox News ^ | july 7 2020 | FN

[NoLibZone]

Signatures include J.K. Rowling, Bari Weiss, Noam Chomsky and Gloria Steinem

Liberal writers, professors and activists have come together and signed an open letter in the hopes of ending "cancel culture."

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss and political activist Noam Chomsky are a few of more than 100 names attached to the piece titled "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" that was published Tuesday in Harper's Magazine.

"Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial," the letter begins. "Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts."

"But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second."

While the letter calls President Trump a "real threat to democracy," it also warns that the resistance should not "harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion," insisting that an "intolerant climate" has plagued both sides of the aisle.

"The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted," the letter explains. "While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters.se to perceived transgressions of speech and thought."

[NoLibZone]

This means a picture of Biden in Black face has surfaced.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I don’t think that’s it.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Its funny isn’t it..they call Trump a dictator 24/7 yet people are allowed to write nasty books about him and testify against him in front of congress..gee if Trump were such an evil dictator he would have those people killed but he doesn’t..meanwhile everyone associated with the Clintons who have the dirt on them end up with bullets to the back of the head which they call suicide, or hanging which they call suicide

[M1903A1]

Could they please consume Noam Chomsky before anything else?

I’d ask the same of Howard Zinn, but I think he’s dead already.

[libstripper]

And those were just black and white telescreens. Just think of what a smart phone can do, along with addicting its 1user.

[a fool in paradise]

Despots don’t dig dissent.

[Sicon]

Oh, so “cancel culture” isn’t so much fun when you’re on the receiving end, eh liberals? It’s all fun and games when those you disagree with and despise are “cancelled” for no reason other than that they disagree with you, right? But when it happens to you? When Frankenstein returns to your castle? Uh, not so much.

I’m really starting to enjoy this show.

[noiseman]

We can end this quickly if we just launch a campaign to “cancel” every women’s organization and accommodation, from NOW, to women’s studies programs, to women’s sports, to ladies’ nights, to anti discrimination laws based upon sex, etc. Take everything exclusive away from women, and watch their half of the population put a raging beat-down on the cancel culture leftists.

And the justification? Why, because allowing organizations or exclusive accommodations based upon female gender is “gender normative” and promotes the “outdated” notion of there being only two genders, of course. See, now that leftists have opened the door to crazy town, everyone can play!

[MortMan]

Dr. Frankenstein wanted a peaceful monster.

[lizma2]

"Facecrime"

Nick Sandmann

[xkaydet65]

I don’t but Chomsky’ participation. The very language, phraseology, and grammar of the Antifa and BLM scream Chomsky’s linguistic patterns.

[Cuttnhorse]

Noam Chomsky afraid of being eaten by the movement he’s been driving his whole life.

A perfect, "be careful what you wish for" moment...couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of A-Holes!

[avital2]

it was all fine until they came them - JKRowling then “Hamilton” -

[Cuttnhorse]

I’m really starting to enjoy this show.

I'm with you...this entire train wreck is happening right before our little peepers and I am enjoying every minute.

[treetopsandroofs]

Thanks, visited the twit, did not know Crystal was such a Hussein Head before.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Cancel them!

[Maris Crane]

OMG, truer words were never spoken.

The TRUTH...is simply stunning.

[frank ballenger]

Great post.

Only missing current terms like “digital cameras” or “facial recognition” but point is still the same.

I resent growing up with that novel about a 1984 future, then living past 1984, then the actual future is true now. Or in January, 2021. Couldn’t the human race have learned enough to NOT do the worst things?

[Impala64ssa]

It’s all shyts and giggles until the shyt gets real. KARMA, BABY! Enjoy what you all reaped. The Shadefruede is strong.

[Arkansas Toothpick]

In my view, the only thing that will “cancel” cancel culture is physical violence against those who seek to ruin lives. So far, the unhinged left has felt absolutely no fear to do whatever they wish. No one wants to say it, but let’s face it—it’s not going to be anything short of making them afraid for their lives that will result in true change.