Cancel Culture’s Dual Meaning Is a War for America’s Soul
If we don’t stand up to its bullying,
soon real injustices like the killing of George Floyd
will become lost, muddled, and unaddressed.
Author: Ken Blackwell Via American Spectator
The Views of the Author are not necessarily the Views of Enigmose
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.
In 2001, Americans were horrified when the Taliban destroyed ancient Buddha statues along Afghanistan’s silk road despite objections from 54 Islamic countries. Equal outrage occurred in 2015 when ISIS destroyed statues and other irreplaceable artifacts dating back to Iraq’s seventh-century BC culture. Nazis stole countless billions in art, historical, and religious treasures from Jewish families to eliminate Jewish culture.
Mao’s communist regime destroyed temples and ancient artwork to focus Chinese eyes on the totalitarian government alone. The Chinese government is now destroying mosques and treasures of minority Muslim Uyghurs in western China as they did with the ancient Tibetan Buddhist culture. Since Russia invaded the Crimea in 2014, it has been systematically destroying cultural preserves and stealing artifacts.
Americans recognize and object to violent cultural destruction beyond our shores. We must now acknowledge that it has finally landed here.
So why a deafening silence from so many? Perhaps Americans feel the Constitution alone can protect us. Or the majority of the decent will prevail against the tyranny of the minority.... Read More @ American Spectator
Conservatives: Start putting your money where your mouth is to fight cancel culture
American people must rise up as they always do when they are pushed to the breaking point.
Nike is now in a real predicament, as its Ivy League–trained marketing and branding experts surely know that insulting the Fourth of July will cost the company half of its market. ... the entire American elitist university system is essentially owned and operated by the Marxist centralized planning board. Any faculty members who do not voluntarily comply with these Marxist objectives will be subjected to intense personal and professional pressure until they eventually submit. ......... , most all of the CEOs of major corporations have made it clear they are totally in favor of the far-left agenda because they cannot risk the wrath of leftist activists who can "cancel" them at any time. Conservatives, meanwhile, are simply sitting on the sidelines while Republican leaders hide under their desks and lose perhaps their greatest allies in American business. ...[America] has done more for the world's poor than any other in history and one that has given everyone a chance and a hope for a great future. We must all work very hard right now to ensure that this continues. The fight is on. It is a just war. Read More
They Can’t Cancel All of Us: How We Fought the Woke Thought Police and Won
This is the story of how Social Justice Activists turned the [Canadian] Law Society into the thought police.
A handful of ordinary lawyers and paralegals, mostly sole or small firm practitioners, who risked careers, reputations, friendships and more to stand up against the progressive juggernaut, because they believed that their professional regulator had no right to tell its members what they are required to think and believe in order to practice law. Read More
When the Mob Comes for You
Responding to a shameful attempt to cancel respected Grove City College professor and American Spectator contributor Paul Kengor.
Appropriating Black Lives Matter rhetoric to make bogus allegations of racism, three white Grove City College graduates recently attempted to enlist social media to destroy the reputation of Paul Kengor, a popular professor at the college. Though the female attackers — who recently added the moniker “disgruntled leftist and LGBTQ activist” to their Twitter display names — quickly rescinded their demands that Kengor “retire or resign” because of his “white nationalist rhetoric,” the damage to his reputation is significant. Read More
As America-Hating Spreads, Slanted 1619 Project Meets Competition From Black Academics
1619 Meets 1776
America was founded in 1776 on the idea that 'all men are created equal,' the principle that led to slavery abolition and created the freest nation on Earth.
The Bob Woodson Center and Washington Examiner is offering an alternative to The New York Times and Pulitzer Center’s “1619 Project.” Theirs is aptly named “The 1776 Initiative.”
Responses to the 1619 Project are popping up everywhere. Countless conservative scholars have weighed in, both Civil War and founding-era historians have teamed up to cry foul, Hillsdale College is offering an online course to counter the narrative, the Heritage Foundation has compiled a trove of essays titled “1776: A Celebration of America,” and the National Association of Scholars has started a “1620 Project.”
Responses can’t come soon enough. Despite criticism, the 1619 Project is barreling ahead. The New York Times purchased ads that ran during the Super Bowl and the Democratic primary debates. Read More
