Posted on 02/15/2022 5:40:28 AM PST by Kaslin
In doing research for my forthcoming book The Silencing of the Lambs: The Ominous Rise of Cancel Culture and How We Overcome It (due out March 1), I compiled a list of secular voices speaking out against cancel culture. In other words, this was not just a matter of Christian conservatives speaking up. This was a matter of people with very different worldviews and convictions speaking up as well.
Among those quoted in The Silencing of the Lambs were Bill Maher, an outspoken, liberal atheist; Barri Weiss, former New York Times journalist and herself a lesbian feminist; Sarah Silverman, an irreverent, Jewish comedian; Nick Cave, an Australian singer and songwriter; Alec Baldwin, the famously anti-Trump actor; J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series; and others. This is quite a formidable (and rapidly growing) list.
To quote Baldwin, “Cancel culture is like a forest fire in constant need of fuel. Functioning objectively. No prejudice. No code. Just destroy. The deserving and the undeserving alike.”
Or, in the words of Cave, “As far as I can see, cancel culture is mercy’s antithesis. Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.”
In doing research for my forthcoming book The Silencing of the Lambs: The Ominous Rise of Cancel Culture and How We Overcome It (due out March 1), I compiled a list of secular voices speaking out against cancel culture. In other words, this was not just a matter of Christian conservatives speaking up. This was a matter of people with very different worldviews and convictions speaking up as well.
Among those quoted in The Silencing of the Lambs were Bill Maher, an outspoken, liberal atheist; Barri Weiss, former New York Times journalist and herself a lesbian feminist; Sarah Silverman, an irreverent, Jewish comedian; Nick Cave, an Australian singer and songwriter; Alec Baldwin, the famously anti-Trump actor; J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series; and others. This is quite a formidable (and rapidly growing) list.
To quote Baldwin, “Cancel culture is like a forest fire in constant need of fuel. Functioning objectively. No prejudice. No code. Just destroy. The deserving and the undeserving alike.”
Or, in the words of Cave, “As far as I can see, cancel culture is mercy’s antithesis. Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.”
“That's what this [expletive] country was built on.”
As for those who don’t like what he had to say, White’s response was loud and clear, although I’ll have to leave out the heart of the quote (too many expletives). In short, after calling them “whiny,” he said this: “Too bad.”
The fact is that this is America, and our nation was built on fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of speech. And when such a fundamental freedom gets threatened, you can be assured that there will be a pushback – and not just from Christian conservatives concerned about their religious liberties, but from people like Dana White, whom no one would brand a Christian conservative.
That’s because this is much bigger than the world of religion. This is about pushing back against the thought police. This is about resisting intellectual tyranny. This is about saying no to oppressive overreach, be it from the government or Big Tech or the entertainment industry or the world of education or the society at large.
This is America. And as Americans, we’re not going to have it.
Let the pushback continue
“Among those quoted in The Silencing of the Lambs were Bill Maher, an outspoken, liberal atheist; Barri Weiss, former New York Times journalist and herself a lesbian feminist; Sarah Silverman, an irreverent, Jewish comedian; Nick Cave, an Australian singer and songwriter; Alec Baldwin, the famously anti-Trump actor; J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series; and others.”
Team Frankenstein, trying to rein in the monster that they created. It was splendid when it was rampaging the countryside, destroying other people’s lives, but now it has turned on them. Monstrous.
So the leftist icons now call Cancel Culture wrong and that makes all the difference.
Cancel culture rests on the premise that certain people have a right to not be exposed to speech which THEY regard as offensive.
The counter is to assert the opposite: that people do NOT have the right to restrict the speech of others, just because they regard the speech as offensive.
Now that all the really evil people are being affected it is time for all you stupid Christians, whom I have repeatedly told for years were just imagining things when not actually saying you deserved it, to rise up and come to their aid.
Oh and buy my book.
How about no Mr. Soother?
In large part, thank social media for this.
I don’t see the Dana White quote in the editorial.
Didn’t White just allow ESPN to cancel Joe Rogan? What am I missing?
If you do a search on the original article, he (?) is mentioned twice.
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