A really good piece by Brendan O’Neil over at Spiked-online.com on cancel culture, you know, tearing down everything worthwhile in the West.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/06/the-tyranny-of-cancel-culture/
“Trump is right. Cancel culture is the key weapon in the armoury of the intolerant. In his 4 July speech at Mount Rushmore, Trump talked about the ‘political weapon’ of ‘cancel culture’ – the totalitarian thirst for ‘driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees’. On the cult of wokeness, the ideology of PC that says there is only one way to think about history, race, gender and myriad other issues, Trump declared: ‘If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished.’ Anyone who has been awake at any time over the past four weeks will know that Trump is right. They will have witnessed the furious, misogynistic rage against JK Rowling for refusing to ‘speak the language’ of the new woke elites – in this case the eccentric, science-denying language of ‘genderfluidity’. They will have seen Britain’s foreign secretary Dominic Raab being mauled for days for refusing to ‘perform the rituals’ of the correct-think mob – in this case by taking the knee (that is, bowing down) to the slogan of Black Lives Matter and all the identitarian nonsense that lurks behind it. And they will have seen black actor and TV host Terry Crews being denounced as a race traitor for refusing to ‘recite the mantras’ of the new identitarianism – in Crews’ case by expressing concern that the cry of ‘black lives matter’ might morph into a belief that ‘black lives are better’. In short, Crews was flirting with the great blasphemy of our time – the idea that ‘all lives matter’. And yet what has been the response to Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech from the commentariat and the liberal elites? Sheer, bizarre denialism. They insist cancel culture is a myth. They say there is no culture war against the past or against ordinary people’s moral and cultural values. That’s a lie spread by right-wingers like Trump, they claim. In fact, if anyone is igniting a culture war, it’s Trump, they say. ‘Trump fuels culture war at Mount Rushmore’, as a New York Times headline put it.”
Indeed, but as I see it, it goes much further in that cancel culture is now set to cancel Trump, censoring everything pro-Trump in the coming election, while proclaiming that Trump is anti-democracy. Really, they are leaving no option for Americans but civil war, some believe. Cancel culture, one way or other, is going to get cancelled. That is history. Even if we do not win, even our side perishes, the Earth is not going to be fit to live on, and the manic growth economy is making it that way even now. The best case for the cancellationers, is everyone gets cancelled!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJh7Ye1Qvc8&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ep-u1_0T8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOOWx-ylyuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9H57dJujg