What I see are people going about their business, making a living, raising families and getting ahead in life. And not paying the snobs and elites any attention at all.
A lot of this stuff is the purview of the urban centers and government, education and business elites and their propensity to be in the limelight all of the time.
Regular folks don't even know what cancel culture is or recognize it because it doesn't exist in most of the country. Just in the eyes of those who want it to be so.
Without reading about it on FR, I wouldn't know anything about it. And still don't.
Contrary to what the media tells us, most people just aren't interested in these cultural abnormalities.
You’re not effected YET
“Contrary to what the media tells us, most people just aren’t interested in these cultural abnormalities.”
Most people in Russia weren’t interested in the cultural abnormalities Marx and Lenin were spouting. Not until it was too late to save them, anyway. Never underestimate what a small very determined group of people can do to a society.
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The problem comes when your sons and daughters go to public school, college, or work in corporate America. This is where the leftist indoctrination/ humiliation occurs
WHERE are you...and are the schools in you’re area not affected?
In the last few months I've noticed an informal conservative underground forming... People speak in shorthand and if the response is conservatives there's a 'knowing' that happens. Similar to the informal bonding of men on flights right after 9/11 ... a 'we'll be the team' if terrorists try to take the plane awareness...
If you're unaware of this it might be that people perceive you as a liberal.
That is a good post and I tend to agree. Outside social media, people I live and work with are just going about their normal business. This stuff doesn't come up in my workplace, at family gatherings or with my neighbors.
Out in the virtual world, I agree it is a very big deal. Even here on Free Republic (which is a sort of social media in itself).
As the weather warms, I recommend closing the laptops more, shutting off the cell phones and opening up a book to read. Or go for a walk.
I do not think it is healthy for people to immerse themselves so much in this virtual world of ours.
One could argue that the absence of evidence of cancel culture is proof that it is working.
Absence of proof is not necessarily proof of absence. In this case, one has to ask what it might be like in your "real world where you live" had the national conservative voices NOT been canceled in their early stages.
Sure, people would still be going about their business, but they would be doing so with a fuller experience of ideas in their minds. They might be making different choices, different candidates running for local office, different voting patterns, people more willing to speak out, making different purchases, or just putting up different bumper stickers and yard signs.
Cancel culture is a stealth movement. It's meant to sustain the vacuum on the right so that it can be filled by dangerous voices on the left. The fact that you don't see it might be a clue that it's working. But it's true that we can never know for sure.
-PJ
There is a big difference between being not interested (apathy) and being aware of the danger such cultural degradation poses.