Cancel Culture

nohero said:

They're finding it harder to demonize Biden the way they did to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

What a surprise.

mtierney said:

Really isn’t hard...

Donald Trump boasted about people getting checks just like that.  He even delayed their distribution, so they could be printed with his signature on them.  Whether you received a check or had it direct deposited, you received a letter (signed by Trump) touting what a wonderful thing he was doing for you.

That's the context of the cartoonist's attempt to "demonize" Biden.  Republicans assume their audience is too uninformed or just plain ignorant enough not to remember as far back as last summer.

mtierney said:

Really isn’t hard...

 Even Lauren Boebert disagrees with this stupid cartoon.

https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1370354747564298247?s=21

and the extra $1,400 was T****'s idea.  Highlighting the extra money should have been a pro T**** cartoon.  It truly shows how the right is majorly struggling to attack Biden.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/26/trump-repeats-demand-for-2000-covid-19-stimulus-checkspresident-trump-repeated-his-demand-for-more-generous-coronavirus-relief-on-saturday-saying-the-600-dollars-agreed-to-by-the-house-and-senate-was/

jamie said:

and the extra $1,400 was T****'s idea.  Highlighting the extra money should have been a pro T**** cartoon.  It truly shows how the right is majorly struggling to attack Biden.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/26/trump-repeats-demand-for-2000-covid-19-stimulus-checkspresident-trump-repeated-his-demand-for-more-generous-coronavirus-relief-on-saturday-saying-the-600-dollars-agreed-to-by-the-house-and-senate-was/

Good point.  But since it's Biden now, it's a bad idea now.

the right is just beyond parody on this subject

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/campus-cancel-culture-is-out-of-control

First take:  As a doctor, she shouldn't be saying this about a person she hasn't treated or consulted on (and then can't say anything because confidentiality).  As a presumably smart person, she shouldn't be saying it in public about a lawyer....

eta: otoh, as an institution, Yale could presumably refer the matter to 2 or 3 committees till it blows over, if they wanted to.

meanwhile, in the real world of cancel culture

The Stanford Federalist Society almost cancelled this guy out of a law career.

outsourcing to Erik Loomis again. Where's RFA?

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/07/cancel-culture-5

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Bari Weiss and Bedbug Stephens are surely going to be all over this teacher being canceled by Tennessee decided to relive what led to the Scopes trial…..

As the debate over the teaching of critical race theory in the classroom intensifies across the country, the firing of a Tennessee teacher last month emerged as a flashpoint in the discussion over the weekend.

Matthew Hawn, who had been a tenured teacher at the Sullivan County School District since 2008 and baseball coach at Central High School, was dismissed by the local board of education on June 8 in a 6-1 vote for two separate incidents where he taught about race, reported WJHL.com, a news outlet based in Johnson City,Tenn.

At issue was Hawn assigning the essay “The First White President” by Ta-Nehisi Coates to students in his Contemporary Issues class in February, and later in March, playing a video of “White Privilege,” a spoken word poem by Kyla Jenée Lacey to the same students.

“[Donald Trump’s] political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that Black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built,” Coates writes of the former president. “It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true — his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.”

News of Hawn’s dismissal resurfaced over the weekend, entering the national stage, with professors, politicians, and members of the media weighing in. Several pointed out that the case was reminiscent of the Scopes trial, which neared its 100-year anniversary on Saturday. Also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, science teacher John Scopes was prosecuted in 1925 for teaching evolution at a public school in Tennessee.

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Hawn was informed in May by David A. Cox, the director of schools, that the board would be moving forward with the charges of dismissal against him during the public meeting in June, and until then, he would remain on suspension without pay, according to the documents.

Cox wrote in a document outlining the charges of dismissal that Hawn should be let go as a tenured teacher with the district “based upon his insubordination and his repeated unprofessional conduct.”

He alleged that Hawn exhibited unprofessional conduct by demonstrating “questionable judgment” in assigning Coates’ essay “containing inappropriate terms” and for “unreasonably denying” students in his class “access to varying points of view in violation of the Teacher Code of Ethics.”

Sullivan County, Tennessee went for Trump by a 75-23 margin. Teaching anyone who might oppose the greatest Christian warrior in human history is definitely insubordination and a fireable offense there…

Does that mean that they finally got the necessary quorum to complete enacting the legislation? Because this earlier article doesn’t seem to think it will actually affect that many students

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/education-verify/texas-not-banned-history-marginalized-groups-school-curriculums/536-fb588fe9-b861-472d-ae0f-7af751d2eab3

(So I’m confused. Again.)

joanne said:

Does that mean that they finally got the necessary quorum to complete enacting the legislation? Because this earlier article doesn’t seem to think it will actually affect that many students

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/education-verify/texas-not-banned-history-marginalized-groups-school-curriculums/536-fb588fe9-b861-472d-ae0f-7af751d2eab3

(So I’m confused. Again.)

 yes, you're right . The Texas House has not taken the bill up yet. The tweet doesn't say otherwise. It only mentions the Senate.

where's RFA or terp? need someone to defend this.

and so it goes...

It's Great Patriotic Education For The Glory Of The Fatherland.

this sh!t is really starting to worry me.

wait, what?  I thought only the leftists were capable of canceling?

Yet another example of us white folk stealing **** from black Americans.

So how does one define "contributed to American society".

Southlake can't stay out of the news.

What a hellhole.

This made its way into news segments on local radio and tv around regional Australia yesterday (it’s Saturday afternoon as I write), as well as into our major online news outlets. A lot of us are walking around shaking our heads in disbelief…

joanne said:

This made its way into news segments on local radio and tv around regional Australia yesterday (it’s Saturday afternoon as I write), as well as into our major online news outlets. A lot of us are walking around shaking our heads in disbelief…

 As well you should. The opposing perspective book on the Holocaust is Mein Kampf, for Pete’s sake.

Good overview of the current state of cancel culture

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/10/she-turned-me-into-a-newt

https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-journalism?r=ag5pd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

Is cancel culture okay, if it's a puppet?

I'm asking because the GOP is trying to cancel Big Bird right now over vaccinations.

interesting, sometimes infuriating, read

here's a good video on Cancel Culture, showing how it's similar to moral panics of the past, and showing how much of it is just b.s.

The 20 minutes go quickly.