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Cancel culture IRL

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ponderingturtle said:
You are supposed to keep it in dog whistles and code words instead of blatant racism/antisemitism.
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Well, no, the featured speaker is Toupee Fiasco, so they're apparently fine with completely obvious white supremacism.

Pharaoh Whoever, though, is a *black* anti-semite (I mean, really, who would have guessed that a non-rapper with the word "Pharaoh" in his name would be a kook?), and that's a bit much. I mean, if Candace Owens wants to spew racism against black people, great, but not anti-semitism.

...wait, is she invited? She did say that thing about Hitler...

Anyway, it's kinda like how that Milo guy was cool at CPAC until they discovered that Joe Rogan clip about how men having sex with live boys was acceptable.
 
Brainster said:
What exactly did you feel I misrepresented?
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The part where you claimed he was “cancelled for suggesting that McNeil should not have been fired”.

It’s a conveniently sanitized version of what happened and doesn’t even approach telling the full story.
 
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After 33 pages I'm still not getting what the issue we're supposed to be solving here is.

"People do things I don't like, ergo I stop voluntarily interacting with them."

That's neither a problem to be solved or some new phenomenon that needs a new scary name the Boomers can use in hushed tones.

The only thing that has changed is the less privileged and powerful people now have the ability to do it to the more privileged and powerful because of new technology tools so the only thing that has changed is who's having to deal with the consequences of their actions and I just answered my own question...
 
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JoeMorgue said:
After 33 pages I'm still not getting what the issue we're supposed to be solving here is.

"People do things I don't like, ergo I stop voluntarily interacting with them."

That's neither a problem to be solved or some new phenomenon that needs a new scary name the Boomers can use in hushed tones.

The only thing that has changed is the less privileged and powerful people now have the ability to do it to the more privileged and powerful because of new technology tools so the only thing that has changed is who's having to deal with the consequences of their actions and I just answered my own question...
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In a related story, Ted Cruz calls his neighbors who leaked group texts to the media about their Cancun trip a not-very-nice name.

“Snitches get stitches” is not bound by social class.
 
johnny karate said:
In a related story, Ted Cruz calls his neighbors who leaked group texts to the media about their Cancun trip a not-very-nice name.

“Snitches get stitches” is not bound by social class.
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Ted Cruz is a famously hated individual, even by his own political allies. I am not surprised at all people in his immediate social circle would choose to publicly embarrass him in this way. A universal hatred of Cruz may be the last fiber that is holding this deeply divided nation together.

Lindsey Graham said:
“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,
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JoeMorgue said:
After 33 pages I'm still not getting what the issue we're supposed to be solving here is.

"People do things I don't like, ergo I stop voluntarily interacting with them."

That's neither a problem to be solved or some new phenomenon that needs a new scary name the Boomers can use in hushed tones.

The only thing that has changed is the less privileged and powerful people now have the ability to do it to the more privileged and powerful because of new technology tools so the only thing that has changed is who's having to deal with the consequences of their actions and I just answered my own question...
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We clarified this a few pages ago: one should not hastily join online movements.

That is the entirety of the point of this thread. No attempt to define "hastily", "join", or "movement" has made any progress. Most examples of when people hastily joined online movements and how bad that has been for society, not the individuals, have typically been either misleading or not very probative.

In short, your frustration is the point. You've been Rick Rolled for 33 pages and you never even got see the man dance. Those hips, why do people hate him so?
 
Conservatives claim “The Muppet Show” is “cancelled” after Disney+ makes it available to nearly 100 million people:
Last week, Disney+ began adding the disclaimer to the classic television show, which originally aired in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The 12-second message notes that the “program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures,” adding that while the content remains intact they “want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.”

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Despite the fact that Disney+ is not removing any episodes or even censoring the broadcasts in question, Fox hosts and guests on Monday breathlessly portrayed this decision as the latest example of “woke” liberalism engaging in “cancel culture.”
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To all the well-meaning liberals in this thread, you really need to find a way to distinguish yourselves and the quality of your arguments from these idiots, because they are hijacking this thing and making you look ridiculous.
 
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johnny karate said:
Conservatives claim “The Muppet Show” is “cancelled” after Disney+ makes it available to nearly 100 million people:



To all the well-meaning liberals in this thread, you really need to find a way to distinguish yourselves and the quality of your arguments from these idiots, because they are hijacking this thing and making you look ridiculous.
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If conservatives can't tell the difference between a thing being removed from availability and a thing being published with fanfare to 100 million subscribers then I think that a) the burden is not upon the liberals and b) even if it were, these particular conservatives are too stupid to understand any explanation, no matter how clear it is.
 
Back when a certain Conservative Large Canine was a regular on the board I learned there was nothing more insufferable then a Conservative who learned a new favorite word and feels the need to use it in every possible context, no matter how insane.

Remember how many members of the GOP independently decided that saying that the "Democrats are trying to Cancel the President" during his impeachment was the most clevereast thing evar?

"Cancel" is just their new favorite word, one applied to everything (real and imagined) that the Left does wrong?
 
johnny karate said:
Conservatives claim “The Muppet Show” is “cancelled” after Disney+ makes it available to nearly 100 million people:



To all the well-meaning liberals in this thread, you really need to find a way to distinguish yourselves and the quality of your arguments from these idiots, because they are hijacking this thing and making you look ridiculous.
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Apparently two episodes aren't available. One hosted by Chris Langham who is convicted for possession of child pornography and Brooke Shields. No one really knows why the Brooke Shields episode is missing. Other segments have also been cut, but that seems to be because of music rights.

https://ew.com/tv/why-muppet-show-episodes-are-missing-from-disney-plus/

I'm just nitpicking. Adding a 12 second warning is not canceling, and before this it wasn't streaming anywhere else.
 
While we are all still in shock over the tragic injustice of a millionaire not being allowed to play outer space dress-up, this shouldn’t be overlooked:

Collin College Professor says State Rep. Jeff Leach Tried to Get Her Fired
That month, Burnett got in trouble with her employer after she tweeted during the vice-presidential debate that Pence, who repeatedly talked beyond his designated time, needed to shut his “little demon mouth up.” She’d also retweeted a post calling him a “scumbag lying sonofabitch.”

Afterward, the school publicly apologized, even though its policy dictates that administrators have an obligation to defend professors’ free speech. In an email to faculty, district President Neil Matkin also complained he’d received “contacts from legislators” demanding Burnett’s termination.

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Leach has long painted himself a champion of the First Amendment. But during the 2019 legislative session, he also filed a bill that the Fort Worth Star-Telegram wrote would weaken a Texas law preventing lawsuits stifling free speech; an amended version was later signed into law.
More recently, Leach came under fire for a tweet in which he appeared to defend an alleged Capitol insurrectionist’s right to wear a “Camp Auschwitz” shirt. The lawmaker wrote that while he doesn’t approve of the man’s ostensible Nazism, he would still “fight for his right to be an ass.”

Burnett also pointed to a 2018 Facebook post in which Leach declared he’d uphold the right for teachers to say “Merry Christmas.”
“He’s positioned himself as a real champion of free speech,” Burnett said. “But it’s apparently only speech he likes that he will champion.”
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The state legislator in question is, of course, a Republican and he used the power of his office to attack the free speech rights of a private citizen.

Wokescolds, pour one out for Gina Carano if you must, but maybe start paying attention to actual threats to free speech and who is threatening it.
 
johnny karate said:
While we are all still in shock over the tragic injustice of a millionaire not being allowed to play outer space dress-up, this shouldn’t be overlooked:

Collin College Professor says State Rep. Jeff Leach Tried to Get Her Fired


The state legislator in question is, of course, a Republican and he used the power of his office to attack the free speech rights of a private citizen.

Wokescolds, pour one out for Gina Carano if you must, but maybe start paying attention to actual threats to free speech and who is threatening it.
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Have to agree with Burnett. It takes some kind of ******* to try to get someone fired for tweeting out an opinion they find objectionable.

And Leach is truly a scumbag for claiming to be in favor of free speech while attempting to cause material harm to someone exercising that speech.

Kudos, also, to the school for not firing Bennett for expressing an opinion (even if that opinion was -ironically- that someone else needed to "shut his mouth")
Good point.
 
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A government official using the power of their office to interfere with someone’s speech is a much different matter also.
 
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