“Cancel” / Knee-Jerk Culture of 2020 and beyond

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[BillStime]

 

[B-Man]

15 hours ago, BillStime said:

 

 

 

Wrong thread.

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel Culture’s Dual Meaning Is a War for America’s Soul

by Ken Blackwell

 

Original Article

 

“Cancel culture” is a double entendre of the dangerous kind. It is not just about canceling individuals or entities who offend leftist activists and their myopic group of minions, it is about fundamentally canceling America.

 

The rabid left is actively rewriting American history as being inherently bad from the start, as it has no excuse to change our culture if there is anything arguably good about it. Therefore, our values, historical narrative, monuments and anything that makes us uniquely American must be disparaged and destroyed.

 

Tyrants throughout history have practiced cancel culture by forcibly suppressing opposition to their authoritarianism with methods similar to what the American left is using today.

[Buffalo_Gal]

I am not sure how many people here follow Legal Insurrection, but Cornell attempted to cancel Professor Jacobs. (I am pretty sure I posted something earlier in this thread)

Here is his latest interview on the matter.
 

 

[njbuff]

fvck cancel culture.

[B-Man]

 

 

LARRY ELDER: Who’s Next on the Cancel Culture Docket — Martin Luther King Jr.?!

 

 

It’s turtles  cancels all the way down.

 

 

 

 

 

[Niagara]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

LARRY ELDER: Who’s Next on the Cancel Culture Docket — Martin Luther King Jr.?!

No one will cancel MLK because...

 

...[MLK] challenged capitalism.

1. “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”
   – Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952.
2. “In a sense, you could say we’re involved in the class struggle.”
   –Quote to New York Times reporter, José Igelsias, 1968.
3. “And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society…”
   –Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.
4. “Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.”
   –Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.
5. “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”
   – Speech to the ***** American Labor Council, 1961.
6. “We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.”
   - Report to SCLC Staff, May 1967.
7. “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”
   –Speech to SCLC  Board, March 30, 1967.
8. “I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
   – Where do We Go from Here?, 1967.
9. “You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the ***** without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.”
   – Speech to his staff, 1966.
10. “[W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”
    – Speech to his staff, 1966.
11. “If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.”
    - Speech at Bishop Charles Mason Temple of the Church of God in Christ in support of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike on March 18^th, 1968, two weeks before he was assassinated.

Edited July 26, 2020 by Niagara

[Niagara]

On 7/22/2020 at 5:05 PM, B-Man said:

Defeating Cancel Culture Is Way Easier Than We Think It Is

 

 

 

The bullying only seems to stop when the bullied make it consequential for the bully to act out on them. A measure of pain inflicted on those who inflict it tends to teach them that attempting to dominate someone results in very real pain. One doesn’t even necessarily have to win the fight. Inflict damage and the bully begins to have second thoughts about making you a victim.

So how do we do this to cancel culture?

...our real target isn’t the people doing the canceling, it’s the businesses that are caving.

What cancel culture really is, is a boycott war at its heart.

Cancel culture wouldn’t have any teeth if businesses and government bodies didn’t capitulate. 

This means that the moment a business caves to cancel culture, not only must you make them understand that what they did was wrong through social media, but do what Americans have done for ages and begin voting with your wallet.

China uses cancel culture on NBA, US farmers and more.  The cc threat is often just as effective as the deed. The liberals use cc often, but defeating it is not easy bc he who strikes first usually wins if businesses cave like the NFL Redskins.

[Niagara]

Has anyone noticed Yahoo has canceled your ability to comment. Controlled discussion and thought is the future of our China like future society. Beijing Biden will speed it along.

[Buffalo_Gal]

19 minutes ago, Niagara said:

Has anyone noticed Yahoo has canceled your ability to comment. Controlled discussion and thought is the future of our China like future society. Beijing Biden will speed it along.

 

 Yup, they keep asking you to fill out a survey as to whether or not they should keep comments. I am now looking for a new homepage. It was basically a liberal talking points aggregator. The comments would let me know if it was a trial balloon or what the real story was. Without comments? Meh, not worth the time.

 

 

[RiotAct]

1 minute ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 Yup, they keep asking you to fill out a survey as to whether or not they should keep comments. I am now looking for a new homepage. It was basically a liberal talking points aggregator. The comments would let me know if it was a trial balloon or what the real story was. Without comments? Meh, not worth the time.

 

 

Yahoo has an obvious liberal slant, but I found that the “featured” top comment was usually from somebody more conservative.   Not sure if that was an algorithm targeted towards me or what...

[DrW]

2 hours ago, Niagara said:

No one will cancel MLK because...

 

...[MLK] challenged capitalism.

 

1. “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”
   – Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952.
2. ....

 

Did you collect all thee quotes by yourself? That would have been impressive. However, I could swear I have seen this list before. It would be good if you could give credit to the person(s) who actually did the work.

Edited July 26, 2020 by DrW

[Niagara]

1 minute ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 Yup, they keep asking you to fill out a survey as to whether or not they should keep comments. I am now looking for a new homepage. It was basically a liberal talking points aggregator. The comments would let me know if it was a trial balloon or what the real story was. Without comments? Meh, not worth the time.

 

 

The first one is their survey, after that you can start a survey. I have used |Yahoo for email from beginning, and the comments made their articles semi bearable.

[Niagara]

8 minutes ago, RiotAct said:

Yahoo has an obvious liberal slant, but I found that the “featured” top comment was usually from somebody more conservative.   Not sure if that was an algorithm targeted towards me or what...

Liberal and often not well written, and corrected by someone's comment. Yahoo is owned by Verizon, and I do not understand corporate America's love fest with leftists.

The top post was often the oldest with most comments.

[Buffalo_Gal]

1 minute ago, Niagara said:

Liberal and often not well written, and corrected by someone's comment. Yahoo is owned by Verizon, and I do not understand corporate America's love fest with leftists.

The top post was often the oldest with most comments.

My top comment for the last 6-10 months has been a link to the complete story, regardless of where yahoo got the original story. One if the reasons I had come to like the comments.

 

 

[Niagara]

17 minutes ago, DrW said:

 

Did you collect all thee quotes by yourself? That would have been impressive. However, I could swear I have seen this list before. It would be good if you could give credit to the person(s) who actually did the work.

Kinda dumb in that who would know or care who created a list of fifty yo quotes.

5 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

One of the reasons I had come to like the comments.

 

 

They were the best. I would go straight to the comments and forget the story except headline

Edited July 26, 2020 by Niagara

[BillStime]

Speaking of cancel knee jerk reactions. Look what #BunkerBoy has done to the White House.

 

Cowards - sums up the GOPs (here at PPP and in DC) quite well.

 

 

[B-Man]

[Hedge]

Add mustaches to the list.

 

 

[B-Man]

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