Larry Correia on the Right using cancel culture
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If the right were getting people fired for perfectly ordinary left-wing opinions supported by a majority of people, that might count as cancel culture. Like "I support single-payer health care" or "ban assault weapons [sic]".
Getting people fired for advocating the assassination of a president, whether it is right or wrong, is not 'cancel culture'. Who here would be surprised or outraged if a company fired someone for publicly advocating the killing of Joe Biden?
Nah, cancel culture was and should always mean "getting fired for legal behaviour outside of work". Unless you are committing criminal or damaging acts, you shouldn't have to worry about losing your livelihood. Even then, as they often do, criminals should be able to earn a living after time served.
Wrong. If your kids school teacher was advocating for lowering the age of consent to 8 outside of work, would you still send your kid there? Would any parent?
That's not cancel culture; that's consequences. Part of your duty- maybe even explicitly stated in the hiring contract- in being a teacher is to not be a danger to children. Being a pedo naturally falls into that category and is why background checks are required when working with children.
Admirable principles.
Regardless, if you called for assassination 100 years ago, I'm pretty sure you would be fired. That definition of cancel culture is so broad that it would cover every period, and that will not help distinguish the madness of the past 10 years or so.
But granting that this is cancel culture, these instances should still be sharply distinguished from what the radical left has engaged in, because they will use this to claim that 'we' are just as bad as they are.
100 years ago you would have been dragged out of your work place and beaten to death by a violent mob.
We're much more calm about our political disagreements than we used to be. The 90's was just a decade where the Left were still recovering from the absolute ass-blasting they got in the 80's as a result of the Days Of Rage campaign of the 70's, and the perpetual violence of the 1960's. Twenty years of constant Leftist violence and agitation ended with them pretending to be interested in lowering crime that they caused with the Warren court.
Simple; this isn't cancel culture, this is consequences for terrible behaviour. Labelling something cancel culture should be reserved for punishment over inconsequential transgressions.
AKSHULLY, it is not legal to promote violence against political opponents. It's not protected speech.
So yeah, we're getting people fired for ILLEGAL behavior outside of work lol. We're actually more in the right because we have the law backing us. Fighting words and direct calls for violence is not constitutionally protected speech. That's why some of these "but muh principles" fags don't get - 1) we're holding them to their standards and 2) our standards are actually pretty fucking low because we're simply telling them NOT to commit crimes or say speech that is not constitutionally protected.
Not all these statements are unlawful.
Exactly. We aren't engaging in cancel culture. They are facing consequences for violent speech.
Protecting the public (teachers, psychologists who do this shit) is not retribution.
"Cancel culture" is the attitude, not the actions, I'd say.
Hunting someone down and getting them fired is cancel culture.
Note I'm not even saying it's wrong for something this extreme, but I do think it is completely within the definition of "cancel culture."
Lady got hunted down IRL and then fired for things she'd said online, because people didn't like what she'd said. Again, to be clear, not defending her. I enjoyed the public shaming greatly, in fact.
Holding people accountable for their words and deeds is cancel culture.
Not holding people accountable for their words and deeds is commie faggotry.
By that definition, there's always been cancel culture though. If everything is X, then nothing is X.
And on what kind of scale is this going on, anyway? That #MeThree hysteria had unverified black lists spreading through companies.
You should be fired for both opinions, because both are heinously un-american. Tax slavery and forcible disarmament are about as traitorous as it gets.
That would mean that 80% of Americans should not have jobs.
Having worked with a few thousand people I'd say yeah about 80% don't deserve to have jobs.
That's not a political principle I'd run on, but what they do cannot be considered worthy of receiving a paycheck.
Nah. In a scenario where we can actually punish leftists for the psychotic parts of their ideology, the normies would fall in line quick.
Normies don't have opinions. They say and do whatever to go with the flow.
Pareto principle says that would be perfectly fine
I think they're the same concept but there's a difference in magnitude.
E.g., being fired for privately not calling a girl a boy versus getting fired for publicly wishing assassination upon someone and all that that implies.
That is such a huge difference in magnitude that it is a difference in quality.
Advocating assassination, of anyone, in my view is not legitimate discourse. I'm not just saying this because it's my ox that's being gored. I condemned the crazies who were making fun of Pelosi's husband.
Advocating assassination can never be put on the same plane as pointing out pure facts.
It is pretty dumb that some are thinking this is payback against the left, when all that's happened is they just crossed basic moral boundaries after a serious incident, to the point their own sheep are double-taking. Similar to the college kiddies getting their shit kicked in for not supporting Israel, or cheering Hamas, regardless of muddiness of the Oct 7th narrative.