Posted on 08/10/2021 5:46:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's Note: This piece was authored by Caleb Ashley.
Cancel culture is the left-wing equivalent of eating at Golden Corral. Picking and choosing buffet-style whose careers to end, what brands to boycott, and which political reputations to consume may feel good in the moment, but in the long run it’s terrible for your health. And if the left doesn't leave the buffet soon, down the line it could suffer a massive coronary.
The Olympic Games have been a disaster on this score. The Director of the Opening Ceremonies was fired for a Holocaust joke he made 23 years ago during a comedy routine, and a composer working on the Games was forced to step down because he admitted to bullying classmates as a child. It’s remarkable and sad that not one world leader took the opportunity to call out these cancellations for what they really are — which is ludicrous. Wouldn’t it have been great if just one of our world leaders had, you know, led?
The silence from progressive leaders like US President Joe Biden is especially disappointing. The longer progressives wait to stand up against cancel culture, the more they undermine their own ideological credibility. That’s because the whole aim of cancel culture — to eliminate all dissenting opinions through political, social and economic pressure — runs contrary to the principles that have driven progressivism for over a century.
Progressives have long thought that man can achieve perfection with the right programs. From President Woodrow Wilson to President Barack Obama, progressive thinkers have claimed that with enough elbow grease and with the right policies we can fix society’s ills. This conceit is part of why Democrats support legislation that would substantially reduce the number of prisons, increase government regulation in many industries, and restructure our society through ambitious climate proposals.
Cancel culture flies in the face of progressives’ central optimism. Rather than attempting to perfect humanity through effort and policy, backers of cancel culture focus simply on eliminating dissent. Instead of rehabilitating the average American when they commit an act of so-called bigotry, supporters of cancellation try to shame people into submission or to banish them from society completely. The result is a mob of angry online commentators trying to get people they disagree with fired.
What’s become of the key tenets of progressive thought? What happened to the idea of perfecting man? Instead of encouraging growth, we’ve opted to eliminate those who don’t measure up from the public sphere and render them voiceless.
Luckily, most voters see right through this nonsense, and according to a recent poll for CAPS-Harris, 64 percent of Americans view cancel culture as a threat to freedom. The American people are used to petty political fighting, but cancel culture is unpopular because it allows politics to bleed over into other areas of life.
The Olympics give President Biden and other progressive leaders the perfect stage to condemn cancel culture and call for unity globally and domestically. They should take a queue from progressive comedian Bill Maher, who has mocked what is happening at the Olympics. Biden at least should add his voice to the chorus condemning this insanity. In so doing, he’d be landing on the right side of history and signaling to the American people that enough is enough.
If keyboard warriors on the left continue pushing for the cancelation of voices they don't like, the American people will start canceling Democrat politicians at the polls. Cancel culture's philosophical incongruence with progressive thought as well as its political unpopularity makes it a lose-lose proposition for progressives.
Progressives don’t want unity, they want submission.
First off the term progressive is ridiculous. These people would put us back to medieval serfdom.
“Where did you get the notion that Progressives want unity?”
What they want is POWER over others. No different than Hitler, Mao, Stalin, or Pol Pot. The question is whether we let them...and many on our side seem to want that outcome, as opposed to supporting the only entity, at this time, able to slow them down or stop them (the Republicans). They’re very close, a few more seats in Congress, plus the White House, and we won’t be discussing politics anymore...instead we’ll be wondering why they’re putting us in cattle cars - at least for most Americans.
Cancel culture IS the New World Order.
YouTuber Jenna Marbles was canceled by the New World Order.
Our society has to confront whether they really want this sterilization of our culture or if they prefer being human instead.
Don’t expect the left to ever exercise restraint when the behavior is fueled by blind hatred and getting results.
Progressives/Democrats÷socialist = commie
I do not desire unity with progressives. Not even the old progressives and certainly not these nothing left of the old extreme Left that’s extreme to them anymore sort.
I desire their humiliation, repudiation and absolute defeat. They belong on the ash heap of history.
That is right out of the commie play book. Re-define terms and use them — peasants won’t notice until it is too late.
As to cancel culture vs unity. Uhh, gonna take a ‘Ell of a lot more. How do you expect me to forget being called a racist since 2015? Try the Hillary “At this point what difference does it make?” routine? No, history matters. It always has. YOUR history as a scheming turd will and should always be remembered. Until you compensate for that, I wouldn’t consider unifying with you to fight your house on fire.
Progressives don’t want unity; they want diversity.
There can be no unity
There can be no coexistence
It’s them or us
Trump knew that but did nothing about it
This is a fight, no unity, just winners and losers.
They don’t want “unity” they want total, undisputed, raw power over every facet of our lives from cradle to grave. If we resist they’ll have absolutely no trouble just ordering us killed.
“ Cancel culture flies in the face of progressives’ central optimism.”
I quit reading right here. What the hell is CENTRAL OPTIMISM?
I think I understand today’s leftists, (they’re not liberals and certainly nothing they think is progressive so I won’t use their coopted language), since I have lived behind the curtain in the Soviet of Washington for over 40 years. Being optimistic is a state of mind that leftists cannot conceptualize.
To be optimistic you have to be determined, happy, humble, insightful, and you have to understand where you’ve been in order to know where to go. These are all attributes the leftists or Marxists do not possess.
Today’s Marxists are the most uniformed, unhappy, nihilistic luddites that have ever existed in mankind. Central optimism (whatever that means), is a fallacy especially when associated with the leftists.
Whoever wants this to stop or wastes hundreds of words on it wanting it to stop is a RUBE.
I’m sick of people like you saying “Trump did nothing about it”
What the hell is wrong with you? Trump did everything he could to fight the Marxist bastards only to be stabbed in the back by the assistant democrats Ryan, Boehner, Turtle McConnell and other “team R” turncoats.
He needed help and none came. How many times did Trump tell staff to do something only to be ignored or have a law suit filed against him.
Your kind make me ill. Your are what used to be called a keyboard cowboy, all type and no action, the very worst of internet denzians.
Progressives are the cancel culture but expect other results.
I wish it were true that history matters, but people today cant even remember that Democrats are the party of pro-slavery, and the KKK. I have actually had Democrats argue with me ... well that was then, but now its the Republicans. I say “oh really?” Who was it that opposed the voting rights act in the 60’s?” “Robert Byrd, Dem Senator from WV was in the KKK and he only died in the last 20 years”. “At what point is it that you think the Democrats stopped being racist and the republicans started?”
AMEN and AMEN!! 100% agree!
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