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As a conservative-leaning person, I've pondered this juxtaposition before and come to the following conclusion: The religious right says, "We don't like what D

As a conservative-leaning person, I've pondered this juxtaposition before and come to the following conclusion: The religious right says, "We don't like what Disney/Home Depot/Google/etc. are doing, and so we're telling all of our friends to boycott them if they also hold those values". "Cancel culture" says, "We don't like what you, Joe Schmoe, are doing. As a result, we're going to tell Disney/Amazon/Google/etc. to boycott you and make you unemployable."

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AlexandrB 5y ago
This doesn't seem accurate. For example, The Dixie Chick backlash involved listeners calling radio stations and telling them to blacklist their music[1]: > The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations. On May 6, Colorado radio station KKCS suspended two DJs for playing their music. WTDR-FM in Talladega, Alabama, dropped the Dixie Chicks after more than 250 listeners called on a single day to complain about Maines's comments. That's not to mention the baying for blood that happened in the early 2000s when anyone came out against the Iraq War[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_controversy [2] http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/july/19/silencing-war-criticism-the-iraq-invasion-of-2003/ http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2...
- BitwiseFool 5y ago
  Yes, those events happened but that was over 20 years ago at this point. I often see people utilizing an argument that either minimizes/trivializes modern cancel culture by invoking either "conservatives did this in the past, just look at when they got mad at [x]" or "this is actually what conservatives have been doing the whole time". Yet, whenever I see examples like the one you have posted, they seem far more mild than some of the recent cancellations that seek to un-person someone.
  - JaimeThompson 5y ago
    Groups like the Family Research Council, Concerned Women of America, and others routinely call for boycotts and "canceling" of individuals they do not like. The FRC once even called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A in 2019 https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2019/11/29/family-research-council-calls-for-boycott-of-chickfila-n2557152 https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2019/11/29/famil... They do this sort of thing often.
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AlexandrB 5y ago

This doesn't seem accurate. For example, The Dixie Chick backlash involved listeners calling radio stations and telling them to blacklist their music[1]: > The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations. On May 6, Colorado radio station KKCS suspended two DJs for playing their music. WTDR-FM in Talladega, Alabama, dropped the Dixie Chicks after more than 250 listeners called on a single day to complain about Maines's comments. That's not to mention the baying for blood that happened in the early 2000s when anyone came out against the Iraq War[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_controversy [2] http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/july/19/silencing-war-criticism-the-iraq-invasion-of-2003/ http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2...

BitwiseFool 5y ago
Yes, those events happened but that was over 20 years ago at this point. I often see people utilizing an argument that either minimizes/trivializes modern cancel culture by invoking either "conservatives did this in the past, just look at when they got mad at [x]" or "this is actually what conservatives have been doing the whole time". Yet, whenever I see examples like the one you have posted, they seem far more mild than some of the recent cancellations that seek to un-person someone.
- JaimeThompson 5y ago
  Groups like the Family Research Council, Concerned Women of America, and others routinely call for boycotts and "canceling" of individuals they do not like. The FRC once even called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A in 2019 https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2019/11/29/family-research-council-calls-for-boycott-of-chickfila-n2557152 https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2019/11/29/famil... They do this sort of thing often.
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