Cancel Culture’s Dual Meaning
Is a War for America’s Soul
American Spectator,
by
Ken Blackwell
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
7/26/2020 4:03:23 AM
“Cancel culture” is a double entendre of the dangerous kind. It is not just about canceling individuals or entities who offend leftist activists and their myopic group of minions, it is about fundamentally canceling America.
The rabid left is actively rewriting American history as being inherently bad from the start, as it has no excuse to change our culture if there is anything arguably good about it. Therefore, our values, historical narrative, monuments and anything that makes us uniquely American must be disparaged and destroyed. Tyrants throughout history have practiced cancel culture by forcibly suppressing opposition to their authoritarianism with methods similar to what the American left is using today.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 7/26/2020 5:52:29 AM (No. 490743)
How many politicians and corporations have folded, bent a knee, at the first objection.
A local fire department removed blue flags supporting police, from their trucks when one person objected.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/26/2020 6:53:48 AM (No. 490762)
FTA: “ America is not cancel culture activists’ property to steal. If left unchecked, cancel culture will eventually become the genocide of American liberty, and it will be far harder to get it back than it was to lose it in the first place.”
Sadly, it is clear that we are no longer a country of fierce individualists but people for the most part who go along to get along. Andrew Breitbart was prescient when he described the culture war as one we must win. His was the lone voice exposing what was happening in our country. He was on the right track and you will never convince me that he was eliminated because he was too big a threat.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/26/2020 7:07:38 AM (No. 490775)
It's not a war if the other side doesn't fight back.
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The point will come when real Americans pick up their guns and do the job the government is unwilling and/or unable to do. If it means ridding us of college students and other vermin who will never be of any use to this country, then so be it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/26/2020 9:47:53 AM (No. 490893)
I notice no liberal culture is getting canceled, but the opposite. Liberal culture is being added. Street names, renames, new statues, new ship names, one obnoxious name after another.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/26/2020 10:11:08 AM (No. 490916)
What the leftist activists don't understand is they are no more than useful idiots. Even if they were somehow someday successful in transforming America to that fascist state they crave, they as today's modern brownshirts, would be the first to be eliminated under the fascist regime they supported. Adolf Hitler wrote the book on this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Citoyen 7/26/2020 11:10:12 AM (No. 490980)
Where are Republican politicians as leftists erase our history and cancel any opposition? We have Mitt Romney groveling before the mob. We have Senator Johnson, and other Republican senators, themselves canceling Christopher Columbus and foisting another made-up holiday on the nation. As a poster noted when one side, the right side in this case, is too cowardly to fight back, the evil side will win.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 7/26/2020 11:50:03 AM (No. 491029)
As #7 points out, our GOPe "leaders" are part of the rebellion. We cannot count on them. At least two-thirds of our Repub reps are part of the plan to "fundamentally transform" America. That is why its been so hard to get the truth out; its not just Dems that participated in the coup against our President. They are also quite happy to enable the Dem wing of the Uniparty taking it to the streets, its a great fund raiser for them. Remember, Trump executed a hostile takeover of the GOPe. We'll find no allies among them. We have Trump and perhaps a score of Reps and Senators...and we have the Army of the Deplorables growing in numbers every day.
MAGA:KAG - Pray. Pray hard.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kafka2 7/26/2020 1:37:43 PM (No. 491161)
The Democrats and Cancel Culture will next want to destroy the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The desecrate the statue of Frederick Douglass, a black American social reformer, and abolitionist proves BLM, Antifa, and Cancel Culture are mindlessly destroying anything they can get their hands on.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mamabear 7/26/2020 2:41:59 PM (No. 491223)
Why don't we just skip all the fancy language and call this what it is? A PURGE. Were Jews, intellectuals, artists, homosexuals, dissidents, Christian pastors any less fearful when their culture was cancelled by the Nazi democrat socialists? It has been underway for quite a while and it will not burn itself out. History will repeat itself unless more fearless persons with power, influence and common sense have the courage to speak out against it and defend the rights of free speech, religion, peace-full assembly/redress, and association guaranteed to every American in the First Amendment of our Constitution.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/26/2020 3:07:32 PM (No. 491241)
America does not have a soul. What a cliche. America is a polyglot mess.
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