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And once again, this person is making up quotes, taking screenshots off this message board, and based on the comments, doing her best to make sure some Baylor fans will never be members on this site.
Jinx in the comments
Skimmed the thread and it makes one wonder: At which drag queen story hour did that group of people first meet one another? Were they all wearing their custom knitted pink p***y hats at the time? Do the men in the thread accuse themselves of mansplaining or do they ask the (identify as) women to do it for them? When only on line, do they still snap their approval and yell out 'SLAY QUEEN!!!' at the appropriate screen name? So many questions.
This one will be a post-sober delete for sure. Only a question of how long it takes you, or if the mods get there first.
But if not, pretty cool to know the P word is now fair game on the free boards. I think it's safe to say we're finally as fast & loose as the public schools... you guys can go to Sunday School tomorrow with a little extra swag in your step.
Why in the world would the mods take that down?
You're in the sandbox, a lot of things are fair ****ing game.
Not in the eyes of the cancel culture. If they don't agree, it should come down.
Cancel culture is bipartisan, always has been.
Keep telling yourself it's the same on each side, if it helps you sleep at night.
Let's see what the right has cancelled: Ford, GM, Dixie Chicks, Hollywood, NFL, NBA, and now baseball. That's a short list, btw.
Facebook, YouTube, Google, Bill Gates, the list goes on....
To 'cancel' someone or something, one must have the ability to do so - to affect actual harm to that person or institution. Simply saying "I don't like that" isn't canceling, as the term is used and understood today. One must have the power, either individually or in a mob, to destroy. The cultural institutions (arts, media, etc), commercial institutions (social media, airlines, automotive, etc) and (pseudo) educational institutions are run monolithically by the left and the politics of personal destruction goes in one direction - from the left toward everyone else.
Trying to couch someone saying "I don't like being targeted so I am not going to watch that movie or that game or buy that product" is not cancel culture. It's patently absurd to claim it is. Cancel culture is when Google and Facebook and Twitter and Amazon team up to shut down a person or a movement or when they form a cartel to shut down new venues that would host the people and movements they already canceled. Cancel culture requires institutional power and/or a mob most often backed by institutional power. No similar institutional power exists for exercise on the right. Where the right has attempted to form a nexus around where it can coalesce, the left has canceled them or tried to, with Democrat politicians going so far as to call for the shutting down of Fox news and telling BLM mobs to physically confront idealogical opposition in the streets. That is cancel culture,
The attempts to usurp explanatory terms defining the left and ridiculously try and turn the around is comically sad. It's also extraordinarily telling that the left feels the need to try and change the definitions of even these newer and very specifically descriptive terms. They understand that one of their best weapons is simply to change definitions to suit their narrative. This is just more of the same.
I'm confused. You define cancel in such a s way as to exclude anything that fails to actually shutdown the target.
And then you turn right around and say that calling for the shutdown of Fox news is cancel culture.
First, calling for the shutdown of Fox news is cancel culture. To me.
Second, it has not succeeded. Therefore it is not cancel culture. To you.
It appears that you apply your definition differently depending on how it affects your team.
The examples of right wing attacks on FB, YouTube, Google, etc are very different than what is being attempted with Fox News.
The right wanted to take away the protections which allow the tech giants to use their power to silence & cancel political speech. Those protections are intended for platforms which will encourage & support free speech, not for publishers which will edit or screen content based upon ideology. It is the difference between being a platform and a publisher. Example: Twitter wouldn't allow anyone to post information about Hunter Biden's laptop, because they claimed it was stolen data and unverified information. Yet Twitter had no problem at all with the thousands of posts about Trump\Russia, even though there was no evidence that the info was accurate, and plenty of evidence that the info was often fabricated. Even Twitter had to finally admit that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were true... but only months after the story broke, and months after the election.
The attacks on Fox News are not designed to protect free speech, but (again) to silence political speech which is opposed to a certain ideology. The left is not attempting to open Fox News up to opposing viewpoints, but instead is calling for the FCC to shutdown the network entirely. That is very, very different than what was attempted with the tech giants.
Similarly, there have been calls by the right to boycott corporations. A boycott is not the same as a "cancellation". A boycott is attempting to use the free market, to dry up the revenues & profits of a business. Boycotts almost never work. Example: the leftists called for a boycott of Chik-fil-a, and the result was an overwhelming support for the business, which propelled it into record sales, expansion & profits.
Now the left has abandoned boycotts in favor of cancellations... which usually involve some form of government power, and ALWAYS involve leveraging the power of traditional & social media... both of which are wholly owned & controlled by the left.
The right has not called for the government to shutdown FB, YouTube, Google... but has instead called for the government to open-up those businesses to allow for more free speech. The funny thing is that allowing for more free speech would actually generate more traffic and higher profits, especially for YouTube.
Cancel culture is about destroying lives, business, organizations, churches... for the purpose of silencing opposition to a leftist ideology. The right does not engage in silencing. The right engages in debate and challenges opposing ideologies in this manner.
The left OWNS cancel culture. They want to silence voices of opposition on the right, and they will destroy as many lives as necessary to accomplish that goal.
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