Cancel culture is a made up thing, imo. It’s a meme. The other side needs only thin air to lie about, distort, blame, make into a crisis caused by the Ds. There are purists in every party where the use of language has either been neutered or weaponized and they are a big pain in the behind. Sanctimonious jerks. This progressive doe…
Cancel culture is a made up thing, imo. It’s a meme. The other side needs only thin air to lie about, distort, blame, make into a crisis caused by the Ds. There are purists in every party where the use of language has either been neutered or weaponized and they are a big pain in the behind. Sanctimonious jerks. This progressive doesn’t fit into your premise that censorship is on every progressive’s agenda. Not mine.
It’s not a made up thing and when we deny it, it just makes us look weak. Isn’t that the whole point of pressuring advertisers about shows we do not like? What do you call what happened to Al Franken? That was a Roger Stone special and the Dems fell over themselves to get rid of him. The problem is the purists are manna for the GOP who exaggerate, distort, and lie with impunity because it works.
My point is that the phrase ‘cancel culture’ is new. People are rejected/fired for all kinds of reasons, and some have to take responsibility for their actions. Al Franken was unfairly pushed to resign from office but he’s making a come back with his blog and appearances on cable. Cancel culture, imo, is a meme that distorts the real happenings to those who are called ‘cancelled’, an abbreviation. Too easily used to encompass a whole lot of actions, a lazy characterization; the use of a phrase that has been made up recently. I’m 74 and I never heard of people being ‘cancelled’ till TFG. For sure, language changes over time, but to reduce a person to being called ‘cancelled’ makes no sense to me. Atomized? Disappeared?
Got it and yes, I agree, it's become a stupid catch-all meme like "political correctness" that has caught on because, like the best lie, there is a grain of truth at the center. There are purists on the left trying to shut down things they don't like—which of course the conservatives have been doing for years!
I'll give the right one thing, they are geniuses at manipulating language, thanks to the wizardry of Frank Luntz et al. Then, the media lap up these simplistic phrases and repeat them on a loop—which is how they become part of daily dialogue.
As to Al Franken, yes, his podcast is quite good and he's reemerging. But we lost an excellent and effective Senator. He wasn't just a Dem vote. Imagine him in the Kavanaugh hearings, etc. I understand we want to be role models. But common sense please! And the media had a lot to do with his ousting as well.
Cancel culture is a made up thing, imo. It’s a meme. The other side needs only thin air to lie about, distort, blame, make into a crisis caused by the Ds. There are purists in every party where the use of language has either been neutered or weaponized and they are a big pain in the behind. Sanctimonious jerks. This progressive doesn’t fit into your premise that censorship is on every progressive’s agenda. Not mine.
It’s not a made up thing and when we deny it, it just makes us look weak. Isn’t that the whole point of pressuring advertisers about shows we do not like? What do you call what happened to Al Franken? That was a Roger Stone special and the Dems fell over themselves to get rid of him. The problem is the purists are manna for the GOP who exaggerate, distort, and lie with impunity because it works.
My point is that the phrase ‘cancel culture’ is new. People are rejected/fired for all kinds of reasons, and some have to take responsibility for their actions. Al Franken was unfairly pushed to resign from office but he’s making a come back with his blog and appearances on cable. Cancel culture, imo, is a meme that distorts the real happenings to those who are called ‘cancelled’, an abbreviation. Too easily used to encompass a whole lot of actions, a lazy characterization; the use of a phrase that has been made up recently. I’m 74 and I never heard of people being ‘cancelled’ till TFG. For sure, language changes over time, but to reduce a person to being called ‘cancelled’ makes no sense to me. Atomized? Disappeared?
Got it and yes, I agree, it's become a stupid catch-all meme like "political correctness" that has caught on because, like the best lie, there is a grain of truth at the center. There are purists on the left trying to shut down things they don't like—which of course the conservatives have been doing for years!
I'll give the right one thing, they are geniuses at manipulating language, thanks to the wizardry of Frank Luntz et al. Then, the media lap up these simplistic phrases and repeat them on a loop—which is how they become part of daily dialogue.
As to Al Franken, yes, his podcast is quite good and he's reemerging. But we lost an excellent and effective Senator. He wasn't just a Dem vote. Imagine him in the Kavanaugh hearings, etc. I understand we want to be role models. But common sense please! And the media had a lot to do with his ousting as well.
And the media takes that grain of truth and equates it to the widespread crackpot ideas Republicans have adopted.
No doubt about it.