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cancel culture from the left came from grassroot movements - kids at uni get offended and they ban certain words and heckle certain speakers. cancel culture fr
by exe34 2y ago
cancel culture from the left came from grassroot movements - kids at uni get offended and they ban certain words and heckle certain speakers.
cancel culture from the right is coming from POTUS.
can you tell me if you think there's any difference at all between the two?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> cancel culture from the right is coming from POTUS Not really. Trump is channeling something that probably came from the book-banning religious conservative crowd.
- exe34 2y ago"the buck stops here". he controls the most powerful army in history. I don't care whose arm is reaching up his colon to move his lips - he's responsible. it's his signature on the orders.
- TheOtherHobbes 2y agoHe clearly has dementia on top of raging NPD and I'd honestly be surprised if he knows what day it is.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoNobody is arguing with you on that. You said cancel culture was grassroots while this is not. My point is they both started grassroots. This one just reached higher.
- noobermin 2y agoThe origin is not the point, the power differential is. Hence why this is an equivocation.
- jprete 2y agoCancel culture was systematically supported and promoted by the most powerful people in our society.
- exe34 2y agogive five examples?
- Auracle 2y agoIf we’re talking about banned words or terms, one of our Supreme Court justices wouldn’t define the term “woman.” The Biden administration directed ICE to use the term “undocumented noncitizen” instead of “illegal alien.” They also pressured social media sites to censor certain content. There was also the whole Al Franken thing.
- exe34 2y agois any of this comparable to banning any acknowledgement of the existence of trans and intersex people in anything connected to the federal government? in fact refusing to define a term doesn't sound like banning at all. to ban is to forbid somebody else from doing something. to refuse to do something personally isn't banning.
- roenxi 2y agoBeing unable to describe a woman would be pretty similar to banning trans acknowledgement. They're basically 2 sides of the same coin; the mismatch between reality and the categories we use. There are different opinions about which part of the mental model has to give. Ie, the concept of man/woman is too imprecise for political discourse - do politicians abandon the word woman or do they abandon the parts of reality that don't fit into a man/woman model? The obvious solution is the third option of letting a few more genders in, but that would still require being able to articulate what a woman is.
- exe34 2y agoagain, one of them is refusing to do something, but the other is forbidding the doing of something. there's a huge difference.