DR. SEUSS CANCELED

[Vambo]

[Axe]

WAIT!!!

 

[Axe]

 

 

[calfoxwc]

13 minutes ago, Axe said:

 

just more "turning America upside down, inside out, and bass-ackwards" to destroy to become a dictatorship

[Vambo]

[Axe]

I swear, the left is hold a dumbass contest..

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Dear four eyed slut:  Fuck off.

[Ibleedbrown]

47 minutes ago, Axe said:

I swear, the left is hold a dumbass contest..

I can’t help but think stuff like this is born from sexual frustration. Like this poor woman never found a guy who could navigate her self manufactured defense mechanisms far enough to unleash her inner animal.

[Axe]

Whatever, she clearly has never been to Florida..

[Axe]

 

[DieHardBrownsFan]

 

[Ibleedbrown]

They got Pepe?!? Sacrebleu...

In a sense you really gotta tip your hat to the puppet masters and their treasure trove of distractions revolving around cancel culture. It stands to reason folks only have so much energy for outrage any given day, so if you were pulling the strings and could get folks to funnel some of that outrage juice onto cartoon characters? That is well played indeed. 

And Loony Tunes has to be the gift that keeps on giving. Yosemite Sam and his gun violence. Speedy Gonzalez and hispanic stereotypes. Daffy is black. 

Meanwhile “banned” Seuss books are still fetching $200+ bucks on ebay. I fully expect within a few weeks they’ll come out with some jive statement about how people are figuring out ways to bypass their algorithm and they just can’t stop them from being sold there, but they are still trying. And the books will keep selling at inflated prices and they’ll keep taking their cut.

Anyone in sales knows that to get top dollar you have to create a sense of urgency. Limited time offer! This is the last one! I got a guy coming to look at it this afternoon... And folks are playing into it. You really gotta feel bad for them. 

[Vambo]

[calfoxwc]

ibb woodpecker's ignorant opinons reek of le pew. they stink up the joint.

[Ibleedbrown]

34 minutes ago, calfoxwc said:

ibb woodpecker's ignorant opinons reek of le pew. they stink up the joint.

Would it help if l posted it 5 more times? Or would that be ridiculous and silly?

[Vambo]

10 hours ago, Ibleedbrown said:

They got Pepe?!? Sacrebleu...

In a sense you really gotta tip your hat to the puppet masters and their treasure trove of distractions revolving around cancel culture. It stands to reason folks only have so much energy for outrage any given day, so if you were pulling the strings and could get folks to funnel some of that outrage juice onto cartoon characters? That is well played indeed. 

And Loony Tunes has to be the gift that keeps on giving. Yosemite Sam and his gun violence. Speedy Gonzalez and hispanic stereotypes. Daffy is black. 

Meanwhile “banned” Seuss books are still fetching $200+ bucks on ebay. I fully expect within a few weeks they’ll come out with some jive statement about how people are figuring out ways to bypass their algorithm and they just can’t stop them from being sold there, but they are still trying. And the books will keep selling at inflated prices and they’ll keep taking their cut.

Anyone in sales knows that to get top dollar you have to create a sense of urgency. Limited time offer! This is the last one! I got a guy coming to look at it this afternoon... And folks are playing into it. You really gotta feel bad for them. 

[The Cysko Kid]

I happen to have one if the cancelled books "the cat's quizzer" this is what got it cancelled. So hurtful. 

 

 

[Westside Steve]

32 minutes ago, The Cysko Kid said:

I happen to have one if the cancelled books "the cat's quizzer" this is what got it cancelled. So hurtful. 

 

 

 How long before they come to break down Cysko's door?

 But this issue in itself should be enough to make democrats unelectable.  Not  that it "fucks with" my life all that much personally BaconHound, come but just the fact these people are badshit crazy.

WSS

[hammertime]

It’s only a few of them WSS.....
 

most Democrats are blue collar Catholics with union jobs.

[Westside Steve]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/manhattan-private-school-mom-dad

And another reason

WSS

[Axe]

[nickers]

Are Batman and Robin next?

[Vambo]

[Ibleedbrown]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1260549

This is an interesting read. I’ll warn you now, it’s very much written from a left leaning perspective, but there’s some interesting points in here that might explain why right wing media is heavily hammering away at “cancel culture.” 

The article mentions a Yale history professor named Timothy Snyder who coined a concept called “sadopopulism - 

which refers to politicians who purposefully govern in a way that makes life worse for the bulk their supporters. Snyder presents the strategy in a few easy steps:

• Identify an "enemy."
• Enact policies that create pain in your own constituents.
• Blame the ensuing pain on the "enemies."
• Present yourself as the strongman who can fight the enemies.”

I would say this is a growing trend in politics that both sides employ. A direct example l can think of is how the entire covid death toll was somehow entirely Trumps fault last year. Oh, whoever can save us? Biden to the rescue right?

And now the entire covid death toll for this year is all his fault. so whoever will save us now? 

A detail that seems to be getting overshadowed in this Seuss business is that it wasn’t a politician who decided to stop printing or selling those books, it was the publishing company that owns the licenses to the books and other private companies. But if right wing media hammers away hard enough then voters will associate democrats as the people who are taking their Dr. Seuss books away, and credit where credit’s due, it seems to be working.

[calfoxwc]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/yes-cancel-culture-is-real-and-its-dangerous

Yes, cancel culture is real — and it's dangerous

“Cancel culture” doesn't exist, leftists say out of one side of their mouths. At the same time, out of the other side of their mouths, they are cheering on the online mobs that seek to shame and even ruin the lives of those deemed to have committed thought crimes.

This is gaslighting, and it is absurd.

Cancel culture is real, and it’s a dangerous threat to a society that once prided itself on open speech.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has been leading calls to boycott Goya Foods after the CEO complimented President Trump, waded into the debate in her predictably shallow manner on Twitter last week. “People who are actually 'canceled' don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets,” she wrote. “This has been a public service announcement.”

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Ocasio-Cortez added, “The term ‘cancel culture’ comes from entitlement — as though the person complaining has the right to a large, captive audience,& one is a victim if people choose to tune them out. Odds are you’re not actually canceled, you’re just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked.”

The trigger, if you will, for Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet thread was likely the recent controversy over the publication of a letter in Harper's Magazine, in which many authors and academics defended the idea of open debate. The list included many liberal voices, such as Noam Chomsky. It also included other prominent names such as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who has come under fire for making the completely obvious declaration that biological sex is real and for criticizing radical transgender activists for the damage they are doing to young women.

The Harper’s letter, however, was not intended as a list of people who are claiming to have been canceled. Rather, it was an example of those with a platform defending the concept of open debate on behalf of those who lack a platform yet have suffered the wrath of the outrage mobs.

As the letter noted, in the current climate, “editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.”

 

In one recent example, David Shor, a 28-year-old data analyst who worked on President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, sent out a tweet summarizing a study by Princeton professor Omar Wasow which found that historically, riots have hurt Democrats’ vote shares, while nonviolent protests increased the Democratic vote. In the outrage storm that followed, Shor was accused of “minimizing black grief and rage” and of making coworkers feel less safe. He apologized, but it was too late — he was promptly fired from his job at Civis Analytics.

Last month, the Washington Post took the extraordinary step of publishing a 3,000-word investigation into a tasteless costume worn by a virtually unknown private citizen to a 2018 Halloween party at the house of the paper’s cartoonist. That person was promptly fired from her unrelated job.

In 2019, Carson King, a 24-year-old security guard who appeared on an ESPN college pregame show holding a sign asking for beer money, went viral, and as donations flooded in, he ended up raising $1 million for charity. But that prompted the Des Moines Register to publish insensitive tweets he had posted when he was 16. In the resulting backlash, Anheuser-Busch, which had previously agreed to match charitable donations, severed ties with him.

Young conservative Kyle Kashuv saw his admission to Harvard University rescinded after racist comments he had made in a group chat at age 16 were exposed. He apologized and explained that he had changed a lot in the intervening years — particularly after having survived the Parkland school shooting. But it was to no avail.

In Hollywood, there have been countless examples of cancellations, some of them literal. Rosanne Barr's show, Rosanne, was canceled over a racist joke she tweeted. Kevin Hart was canceled as host of the Academy Awards for past homophobic tweets that weren't even news — he had previously apologized for them.

Of course, not all cancellations are created equal. There is clearly a distinction between celebrities who are already well off losing out on gigs for comments they made as adults and people with no public profile who lose out on opportunities and jobs due to old statements and actions from their high school years. And not every lame joke that leads to cancellation has the same implications for speech as the shutting down of academic discourse.

That said, there are multiple ways in which the current climate of cancellation is so dangerous. For one thing, there is no way we can evolve into a more tolerant society if all people are deemed irremediably racist for things they wrote as teenagers and if major publications target non-public figures.

 

Beyond that, however, the spirit of open speech and debate, in which there is an exchange of a wide array of ideas, is crucial to the survival of the republic. Shutting down voices if anybody claims they were offended is problematic when the range of things that are deemed offensive is growing and there is no room for forgiveness. People living in fear of expressing their own ideas is a feature of totalitarian regimes that America spent the 20th century toppling.

 

[Ibleedbrown]

8 hours ago, calfoxwc said:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/yes-cancel-culture-is-real-and-its-dangerous

Yes, cancel culture is real — and it's dangerous

I won’t quote the entirety of the whole article, and l agree to a point that cancel culture is a problem. It breeds intolerance which makes having a discussion about something a hassle at best. I’m not sure how “dangerous” it is, and by using that word to describe it almost seems like an element of cancel culture in itself to dismiss anyone’s opinion who sees it differently.

I would say right now it’s being blown out of proportion so that it can be used as a distraction from more important things, like the recently signed stimulus bill. 

I went through the article you posted, and with it being written in July 2020 some time has passed to examine the results of their specific examples.

AOC’s attempt to “cancel” Goya foods? It boosted their sales.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/6484682002?client=safari

JK Rowling? She’s still raking it in.

https://www.ign.com/articles/how-harry-potter-fans-are-coping-with-jk-rowling

David Shor, the data analyst who got fired for a tweet? He got a promotion at his next gig.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shor

So dangerous? I dunno man. Cancel culture is basically a magnifying glass on something, but in many cases the end result is an improved situation for whatever that is. You think the publishers of Dr. Seuss books have seen a spike in sales? I bet they have.

[Browns149]

On 3/9/2021 at 9:10 PM, Axe said:

I swear, the left is hold a dumbass contest..

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4ba8fc78-a18a-4910-9def-a4ba34a7cdf1