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Cancel culture IRL

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The Atheist said:
Lucky the one I mentioned left school at 15 or I would have to cancel myself!

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Why should someone who doesn't break the law be cancelled? The only thing I can take from that is "My morality dictates who should be cancelled" which is a neat replacement for religion.

Meanwhile, the end result of cancel culture is showing at Brandeis University.

Strangely, only reported by right-wing media: https://www.foxnews.com/us/joyce-carol-oates-brandeis-oppressive-words-picnic-you-guys
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Are you shocked that advisory notices, which carry no authority, issued by liberal arts colleges are not considered newsworthy by anyone but right wing tabloids?
 
Stout said:
I've written to Brandeis University with the demand that they cancel the phrase "in spades" to their list as well as prohibit the presence of playing cards on their campus. Let's see if they'll go for it.
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Oh heck, I love playing Spades! Now I'm perpetuating racism as well as a sex fiend.

Sheesh, I'll go and cancel myself after this next response.

SuburbanTurkey said:
Are you shocked that advisory notices, which carry no authority, issued by liberal arts colleges are not considered newsworthy by anyone but right wing tabloids?
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No, I thought the sarcasm would be obvious to even the tiniest mind, but looks like I was wrong. I did not expect to find it in The Guardian.

You are aware that Joyce Carol Oates isn't remotely right wing, I trust.
 
Anti-cancel culture crusader Dan Crenshaw is now asking for the cancellation of an American athlete.

Apparently she didn’t storm the capital and beat cops with the American flag. I’m assuming. I just read the headlines.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/sport/gwen-berry-us-olympic-trials-protest-spt-intl/index.html

The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee permitted athletes to take part in "respectful demonstrations on the topic of racial and social justice" at the trials, but a ban on "protests and demonstrations" will be in place at the Tokyo Olympics.
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She can do as she pleases and can get away with. Wearing a USA jersey while "protesting" the USA seems mighty hypocritical to me. Kaepernick wasn't dissin' the very team that hired him at least.

Nike might like her.

"The intent was we would be introduced to the crowd either before or after the singing of the national anthem," said Berry. "If we had the option, or if I knew that I was going to be on the podium, I would have chosen something else."
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Well you almost weren't on the podium at all. Should have got fourth place, then no problem! I'm pissed at "our country" too, but grow up.

ETA: I have no opinion of her being tossed from the team or not. If she broke no rules then no. Not my area though.
 
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Nothing hypocritical about wanting your country to be better. That is the whole point of protests.

Just like patriots attacking the capitol to defend our democracy. I think.
 
mgidm86 said:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/sport/gwen-berry-us-olympic-trials-protest-spt-intl/index.html




She can do as she pleases and can get away with. Wearing a USA jersey while "protesting" the USA seems mighty hypocritical to me. Kaepernick wasn't dissin' the very team that hired him at least.

Nike might like her.



Well you almost weren't on the podium at all. Should have got fourth place, then no problem! I'm pissed at "our country" too, but grow up.

ETA: I have no opinion of her being tossed from the team or not. If she broke no rules then no. Not my area though.
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Well I think that's the interesting thing about sports. It's really supposed to work on merit, much more than almost anything else. Being a racist, or too woke, or whatever shouldn't matter. She said something you don't like, or should grow up, or be tossed from the team, shouldn't matter. She threw the thing further than the other girl, that can't be erased. You don't have to like her, you don't have to watch her, and you can say whatever you want, but you can't deny she threw the thing further.

Scottie Pippen came out the other day and accused Phil Jackson of a racially motivated decision in a major moment of his career and, I think, justified himself in saying it that's probably going to lead to a lot of mixed anger and support. To me it sounds both like a bitter man trying to sell a book and a guy who has some pretty sound reasoning on why he might feel the way he does about an experience he had involving something that can never be proven.

Point being that out of all the cancel cultures out there, I think cancelling athletes is the least valid but the most interesting. I can see why an athlete might resent being told to shut up and play, you're only here for our entertainment, and I think more and more athletes are done doing that. Sports fans are pretty used to saying whatever they think and athletes so trained in ignoring fan criticism, so it's interesting to see how people are reacting the sudden honesty from them. I think everything about it is great, including the fans going nuts.
 
It's pretty impressive how quickly the reactionaries stop caring about this to go play with their new outrage bait, critical race theory.
 
An interesting case of cancellation covered by TheFire.org, the victim is BIPOC (LatinX Subrace) and a migrant, their crime, they believe that free speech is helpful to minority groups seeking to obtain their rights.


hen Mike Hernández was campaigning to be the University of Connecticut’s student body president last year, free speech was part of the platform he got elected on.

“At the time, it was not divisive,” Hernández remembers of his pitch to pass a version of the Chicago Statement — a policy statement emphasizing the importance of freedom of expression at colleges and universities.

“It was not a big deal.”

But in the last year, the propriety of protecting free speech at UConn — a public university bound by the First Amendment to do so already — has become a very big deal.

Hernández and fellow student senators Isadore Johnson, John “Jay” Mosely, and John Ross worked this year to bring a version of the Chicago Statement — one they’ve dubbed “The UConn Statement” — before UConn’s undergraduate student government for consideration.

But efforts to even introduce the resolution for discussion became so contentious they had to stop.
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https://www.thefire.org/uconn-group...-government-shutout-and-threatening-messages/
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Are you shocked that advisory notices, which carry no authority, issued by liberal arts colleges are not considered newsworthy by anyone but right wing tabloids?
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Not especially newsworthy or panic worthy but surely you can see that this is worthy of a hearty mocking. Its also certainly a direction our culture should not go. Suggesting that a university should ban, "picnic?"
 
I know you're just making a gay joke but I do think it's nice to see athletes dropping their canned media responses and being more honest about who they are in general, even if it's something not everyone wants to hear.
 
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