Cancel culture and censorship are not about fairness or justice. They are the opposite of protecting yourself from the predations of the powerful. They are not about protecting minorities from abuse or offense. Rather, these things, cancel culture and censorship, are about accumulating power for the elite.
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The elite is the graduate class, the professional-managerial elite who are in control of the media, academia, the political sphere, and our cultural institutions. We are at a point where the elite is consolidating this new technology-based power.
Censorship always protects the powerful. The idea cancel culture would have you swallow is: Censorship is a way to protect the vulnerable from predation. The very idea is racist from inception and paternalistic in application.
The idea the responsibility falls to well-educated, largely white, young Leftists to protect blacks, Muslims or gays is itself offensive. Why is it a good thing for the various identity groups to never have to hear an offensive word or to never have to respond to a difficult idea? Think about it.
The effete arrogance is repugnant in its ignorance. The very concept is deeply illiberal. Yet, too many have accepted the ideology. What we should all understand is that cancel culture and censorship are about Leftists protecting their own ideological beliefs from criticism, discussion and argumentation.
When an ideology cannot stand rigorous discussion and debate, it must become intolerant, stilted, and intransigent. Time and again, Leftist regimes the world over have trodden this path. From Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot, the world has witnessed the results of Leftist ideology in power.
More than 100 million people were buried under it in the 20th century. Yet, here we are, once again, chasing a Leftist utopia. We know full well it is an ideally perfect social, political, and amoral place, a fictitious place of fairy dust and unicorns.
Isn’t it time to discard the hypocrisy of the Left? For this, they intend to sacrifice the lives of others to preserve their own power. This is not America’s finest moment. What are you doing about it?
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