These points are fine, but written more for the public intellectual, academic, outspoken professional, celebrity and others who are more or less wearing targets on they backs. But the culture of canceling is broader. Democrats have pushed single-issue organizing to 'recruit' voters for over 40 years. And all those groups fighting for …
These points are fine, but written more for the public intellectual, academic, outspoken professional, celebrity and others who are more or less wearing targets on they backs. But the culture of canceling is broader. Democrats have pushed single-issue organizing to 'recruit' voters for over 40 years. And all those groups fighting for women, minority, and gay rights as well as the environment, health care, criminal justice reform etc. have competed with each other for funding and followers. Like academics are always thinking of new angles on a subject to get published, advocacy groups tend towards narrower and purer objectives. A younger liberal cohort that assumes certain 'truths' that are popular assumes those issues are also resolved, therefore not subject to any more debate. But in politics, as we've seen with the current Administration, nothing is ever completely resolved. At the same time, liberals have faced take-no-prisoner conservative wedge issue. Both fed on the other resulting in where we are now. Cancel culture is a product of these dynamics. Cancel culture is exactly that. it is a cultural phenomenon trying to replace politics with ideology, a no win propositions. A politically astute newspaper doesn't force out an editor that allows an op-ed by Tom Cotton to be printed. It prints the Cotton op-ed and let's its reader tear it apart. Politically astute people want to understand their opposition better than they understand themselves. i was pissed off when the opportunity to hear David Remnick take on Steve Bannon was canceled. A political culture that blocks out criticism is brittle and juvenile. It won't last.
These points are fine, but written more for the public intellectual, academic, outspoken professional, celebrity and others who are more or less wearing targets on they backs. But the culture of canceling is broader. Democrats have pushed single-issue organizing to 'recruit' voters for over 40 years. And all those groups fighting for women, minority, and gay rights as well as the environment, health care, criminal justice reform etc. have competed with each other for funding and followers. Like academics are always thinking of new angles on a subject to get published, advocacy groups tend towards narrower and purer objectives. A younger liberal cohort that assumes certain 'truths' that are popular assumes those issues are also resolved, therefore not subject to any more debate. But in politics, as we've seen with the current Administration, nothing is ever completely resolved. At the same time, liberals have faced take-no-prisoner conservative wedge issue. Both fed on the other resulting in where we are now. Cancel culture is a product of these dynamics. Cancel culture is exactly that. it is a cultural phenomenon trying to replace politics with ideology, a no win propositions. A politically astute newspaper doesn't force out an editor that allows an op-ed by Tom Cotton to be printed. It prints the Cotton op-ed and let's its reader tear it apart. Politically astute people want to understand their opposition better than they understand themselves. i was pissed off when the opportunity to hear David Remnick take on Steve Bannon was canceled. A political culture that blocks out criticism is brittle and juvenile. It won't last.