@chessgirlzzz saidI would presume it started with McCarthy’s witch hunt against communists. And people being black-listed from playing in movies.
Cancel culture started with social media banning a sitting president and the Democrats and leftists loved it.
Then they cancelled Rosanne Barr
Then they cancelled Gina Carano from star wars
Then they cancelled Tucker Carlsen
OAN was cancelled too
Twitter cancelled thousands of conservatives
And many more examples, while the Democrats loved every second of it.
...[text shortened]... id.
That's why about a thousand people have lost their jobs over their comments about Charlie Kirk.
@chessgirlzzz saidWhen did Sinead O'Connor get cancelled?
@Suzianne
Cancel Culture started around 2016 when the left thought everything and anything was racist 🙄
Just because the right is better at it, doesn't mean anything.
Y'all shook the hornets nest first.
It's okay if you google it and read the Wikipedia entry, unless you prefer the Gemini synopsis.
@wildgrass saidIf you mean by the left socialists and communists sure, but I don't recall any democrats speaking out against cancel culture when Biden was in office. When I spoke out against the covid vaccine I was banned from this forum for about a month. And you thought that was a good thing. You convinced yourself that it would save lives. Remember?
Lots of people complained about cancel culture in general, right and left. It was bad culture, and did not emanate directly from government fiat. Now you're saying the problem wasn't cancel culture as a concept. You liked cancel culture but didn't like who was being cancelled. It's not ok to cancel Roseanne, but Kimmel is fine?
Kimmel was cancelled by government order, which is way different from others you describe. Kimmel wasn't cancelled he was fired by a fascist.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/27/did-bidens-white-house-pressure-mark-zuckerberg-to-censor-covid-content
Now Trump wants to save lives like Kirk by attacking free speech. He has his excuse just like Biden did. Same sort of logic.
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@shavixmir saidThe Vatican's witch hunt for Galileo predates that. We could play that historical game forever. If you are talking only in the USA then William Morgan for outing the Masons which led to the first 3rd political party in the USA, but you never hear about that on the news so that history is still being suppressed to this day.
I would presume it started with McCarthy’s witch hunt against communists. And people being black-listed from playing in movies.
The elites want to kill free speech in the USA. Monsters prefer the dark and they use both political parties to gut the constitution. And right and left both fight each other instead of the monsters. Divided and conquered.
@Metal-Brain saidI never thought cancel culture had anything to do with the government. That part is new.
If you mean by the left socialists and communists sure, but I don't recall any democrats speaking out against cancel culture when Biden was in office. When I spoke out against the covid vaccine I was banned from this forum for about a month. And you thought that was a good thing. You convinced yourself that it would save lives. Remember?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/ ...[text shortened]... lives like Kirk by attacking free speech. He has his excuse just like Biden did. Same sort of logic.
@wildgrass saidBS. Biden twisted Zuckerberg's arm to censor stuff as you well know.
I never thought cancel culture had anything to do with the government. That part is new.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/zuckerberg-says-biden-administration-pressured-meta-censor-covid-19-content-2024-08-27/
@Metal-Brain saidThat's not cancel culture at all lol
BS. Biden twisted Zuckerberg's arm to censor stuff as you well know.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/zuckerberg-says-biden-administration-pressured-meta-censor-covid-19-content-2024-08-27/
@wildgrass
Pretty bad when the biggest social media company admits they were censoring conservatives without asking any questions as to why.
Another huge blow to the democratic leftists.
@chessgirlzzz saidThat was years ago and had nothing to do with cancel culture.
@wildgrass
Pretty bad when the biggest social media company admits they were censoring conservatives without asking any questions as to why.
Another huge blow to the democratic leftists.
@Metal-Brain saidAnd this is why people try to ignore you here.
The Vatican's witch hunt for Galileo predates that. We could play that historical game forever. If you are talking only in the USA then William Morgan for outing the Masons which led to the first 3rd political party in the USA, but you never hear about that on the news so that history is still being suppressed to this day.
The elites want to kill free speech in the USA ...[text shortened]... nstitution. And right and left both fight each other instead of the monsters. Divided and conquered.
It's only your determination to repeat lies until we want to pull our hair out that gets you any replies at all.
@wildgrass saidNot much, no.
Do they still teach civics in school?
First amendment is about protecting an individual's speech from retaliation by the government.
First amendment is not about protecting the individual from retaliation by the "culture".
@chessgirlzzz saidThe far-right's base IS racist. They love Donald Trump because he's racist.
@Suzianne
Cancel Culture started around 2016 when the left thought everything and anything was racist 🙄
Just because the right is better at it, doesn't mean anything.
Y'all shook the hornets nest first.
The right still hasn't learned anything in this country, mainly that they are hated because they are all white, all the time. An honest appraisal of all of Trump's orders since illegally occupying the White House this time shows he's following the racist Project 2025, because he's lazy and wanted a "paint-by-number easy presidency". His main problem is that people hate what he's doing. He's earned the criticism of himself and his inept Cabinet. But his incredibly thin skin demands that he strike out at people who disagree with him. He's wrong, the entire far-right is wrong, but no one on that side of the aisle can admit it. Our problem, as citizens, is that the Supreme Court is in his pocket. No self-determination, they want their job to be easy too. They could have shown some balls and identified Jan. 6 as an insurrection, which it was. That one little decision could have saved us all from Dictator Trump by kicking him to the curb via the 14th Amendment.
@Earl-of-Trumps saidAccording to government, our government told ABC that it could be done easy way or hard way and then ABC took him off the air one day later. Then our government said we're not done yet, as a threat that similar punishment would come to other broadcasters.
@wildgrass said - "Kimmel was cancelled by government order,"
Has that been proven?