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Post by jdredd on Mar 12, 2021 13:59:14 GMT -5
Republicons see to be getting a lot of mileage out of the totally subjective "Cancel Culture". Is it because they are so far behind the curve on economic issues (as Mr. Brooks says)? Is the working class falling for it? Will it leave them even more behind in the culture war? Is this thread necessary or is Cancel Culture a flash in the pan?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 12, 2021 19:35:35 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/nyregion/cuomo-resign-congress.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage"Facing a deluge of calls to resign from New York’s U.S. senators and the majority of its House Democrats, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made clear on Friday he had no intention of quitting, deriding the mounting pressure from his own party as “cancel culture” and insisting he would not bow to it." Is this how it is? Any politician or celebrity who is under attack for their misdeeds will claim it is "Cancel Culture"? This Boomer POS needs to resign.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 16, 2021 13:11:00 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/opinion/us-third-party-liberals.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"But there’s also the illiberalism of the left, typified by the excesses of the MeToo movement that ruined people’s lives, the anti-Semitism among some of the leaders of the Women’s March, the “antiracism” pedagogy that casts people who disagree with its Manichaean worldview into supposed racists, and the cancellations of careers, book contracts, speeches and dissenting opinions at places like Slate and other presumptively liberal publications. Anyone on the left who hasn’t noticed the climate of fear that now grips liberal institutions needs to start paying closer attention. The new illiberalism is frightening. It could also be productive. Everyone who has been bitten by it, left or right, is rediscovering how capacious the old liberal faith was, how trivial its internal differences really were, how much they might yet have in common — including common enemies — with people they once regarded as ideological opposites." Here's Bret trying to unite liberals and conservatives against a "common enemy", the so-called Cancel Culture. Will real liberals unite with the Newsmax types? Maybe some ideologically weak ones.
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Post by jdredd on May 15, 2021 1:20:49 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/opinion/this-is-how-wokeness-ends.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"My friend Rod Dreher recently had a blog post for The American Conservative called “Why Are Conservatives in Despair?” He explained that conservatives are in despair because a hostile ideology — wokeness or social justice or critical race theory — is sweeping across America the way Bolshevism swept across the Russian Empire before the October Revolution in 1917. This ideology is creating a “soft totalitarianism” across wide swaths of American society, he writes. In the view of not just Dreher but also many others, it divides the world into good and evil based on crude racial categories. It has no faith in persuasion, or open discourse, but it shames and cancels anybody who challenges the official catechism. It produces fringe absurdities like “ethnomathematics,” which proponents say seeks to challenge the ways that, as one guide for teachers puts it, “math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist and racist views” by dismissing old standards like “getting the ‘right’ answer.” Now there is a real expert on "wokeness", a guy from The American Conservative. I don't think either of these guys have a clue about it. I'm no expert either, but comparing it to Bolshevism? Give me a break. At least it is not the cult of personality like Trumpism.
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Post by jdredd on May 27, 2021 0:30:57 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/opinion/democrats-republicans-wokeness-cancel-culture.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"These surveys are complemented by others that measure the fear that our public dialogue is too constricted. A Harvard/Harris survey in February asked, “Do you think there is a growing cancel culture that is a threat to our freedom or not?” By 64-36, a majority of voters said they thought there was. Republicans see a threat by 80-20; independents by 64-34, but Democrats were split, with a slight majority, 52-48, saying they do not see a threat. This basic pattern is observable across a number of issues. Although centrist Democrats make up a majority of the party in the polls I cited above, the fact that a substantial minority of Democrats takes the more extreme stance allows Republicans to portray the Democratic Party as very much in thrall to its more “radical” wing. The past 12 months have seen a centrist countermobilization designed to strengthen a mainstream image of the Democratic Party and to block the power of the more radical left to set policy. New groups and digital publications include Persuasion, Counterweight, American Purpose, Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism and the Academic Freedom Alliance." I guess I'm with the 36% of Americans who see "cancel culture" as a "threat to our freedom" as a totally contrived non-issue simply designed to bash Democrats.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 11, 2021 18:34:55 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/us/cpac-trump-biden-covid/2021/07/11/id/1028222/"Former President Donald Trump during a keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas Sunday vowed to “secure our borders, stop left-wing cancel culture, restore fair elections,” and “make America great again.” Does he even know what "cancel culture" is? And he thinks he can "stop" it? His megalomania is showing through again.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 12, 2021 20:12:58 GMT -5
Why should working stiffs worry about climate change when they can worry about Critical Race Theory?
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Post by jdredd on Sept 18, 2021 12:32:36 GMT -5
Perhaps one of the reasons I am skeptical of so-called Cancel Culture is that I’m pretty much free to say any damn offensive thing I want in this forum. Of course I have always been an outcast anyway, and no one cares to cancel someone nobody cares what he says in the first place. On the other hand, you-know-who (aka “deleted”) tried to cancel me.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 21, 2021 16:42:58 GMT -5
Michelle Goldberg, the columnist in the NYT hired a year or two after Ross Douhat and Bret Stephans, who were hired after 2016 when the times freaked out that they had no columnists pandering to the Trump right, and was hired when they realized their mistake and needed to balance out Ross and Bret, wrote a column talking about “Cancel Culture Panic” today. She points out how overblown the hype about Cancel Culture is. Real cancel culture happened in the early fifties when ten of thousands of “commie sympathizers” lost their jobs.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 4, 2022 14:39:11 GMT -5
So I’ve never listened to Joe Rogan and know nothing about him, but I do know that he has become the toast of the Fox/Newsmax mob. Maybe the Karma Police has caught up with him.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 7, 2022 21:46:53 GMT -5
A hell of a lot more ink has been written about Joe Rogan than the threat of war with Russia. Who cares about Rogan? I don’t know.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 19, 2022 21:51:23 GMT -5
So Jordan is once again criticizing the so-called Cancel Culture, of course playing the “I’m the genius psychologist” card, which is that everyone who disagrees with him has some pathological illness. And Cancel Culture is feminine, of course.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 22, 2024 3:13:24 GMT -5
Recycling this thread to include all the attacks on CRT, ESG, DEI etc.
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Post by jdredd on May 16, 2024 0:07:14 GMT -5
Lots of noise on the right about colleges eliminating DEI. Should I care? This thread can fall.
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