Posted on 02/23/2023 8:27:34 AM PST by Twotone
Rolling Stone once covered rock and roll music and counted among its contributors Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Matt Taibbi. This week, it platformed a defense of horizontal despotism and the mobbing of nonconformists.
The magazine, which paid out $1.65 million in 2017 for its part in a defamatory episode of cancel culture and previously ran a critique of efforts to "cancel Liz Cheney," published an article by LGBT activist Ernest Owens on Monday entitled, "Why Cancel Culture Is Good For Democracy."
Twitter CEO Elon Musk was among those who ridiculed the publication over the article, calling its defense of mob tyranny "obnoxious."
Owens downplayed in his article fears of the "angry mob instantly judging us and preparing to end our careers before they start," suggesting that "we are the people who make up the so-called mob."
After ostensibly identifying himself and his readers with the mob, Owens indicated that the character assassinations, censorship, and attacks on persons with whom activists disagree have simply been a matter of vigilante justice: "Cancel culture has leveled the playing field for those who can’t always rely on the government to protect them."
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Uhm...cancel culture mobs are now about protecting people??? Are bombs now about constructing buildings? Are book burnings now about stopping censorship? When did we enter backwards world?
It builds nothing, it’s just a witch hunt.
By democracy, I take it they mean two wolves and a lamb agreeing on what’s for supper.
Heck, Cancel Culture isn’t even shunning, because with shunning all you have to do is to go to a different church and the wider society is still available for working, buying, selling, etc.
It’s a little disturbing, btw, that lefties are trying to double-down on running society like a church!
The left keeps using the word “democracy” as if it’s a good thing. It’s nothing but tyranny.
#5 Er, just write about the music industry and Rolling Stone won’t have any trouble.
What music industry? Lousy terrible ‘music’.
The artists given awards are clowns.
True, but they probably won’t have to face multi-million dollar lawsuits if they just stick to music, or what passes for music these days.
“Cancel culture has leveled the playing field for those who can’t always rely on the government to protect them.”
Well, conservatives are the ones who can’t rely on the government to protect them anymore. So I guess Rolling Stone is telling us to start organizing our own vigilante groups.
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