Prickly City by Scott Stantis for July 31, 2020

hmmm…continuing to pay an employee that makes questionable statements, which then cause customers to leave. so, keep customers (income), and save costs (fire employee), cancel culture is a win-win on the ledger.

Oh puhleeeeeeeeeeeeeze.

You two are about as controversial as vanilla tapioca.

If you’ve ever wondered what you’d have done in 1930s Germany, you’re doing it now.

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#TraitorTrump

Sometimes employers can’t control the situation. Even they go broke.

And yet, here you are, Scott.

‘How Long a Delay Are We Talking About? Months, like your response to Covid? Years, like your response to Putin? Or decades, like a hug for Don Jr.?’ Jimmy Fallon. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/arts/television/late-night-trump-delay-election.html

In any event, I’ll concede your main point. There are academics in mainly small, liberal arts colleges who have ways of looking at the world that are authoritarian while claiming to be liberal. They try to “cancel” colleagues with whom they disagree. Point taken.

But so what? This has been true for a long, long time. And guess what?

None of these people have any real power outside these tiny elite bubbles. They are powerless over society at large.

Mechanics and electricians and firefighters and bricklayers don’t get laid off because of cancel culture. They don’t even know what it is, nor do they care.

What they care about, and what we should care about, is right wing cancel culture, which has real power, does real damage, and is now weaponizing the phrase “cancel culture” for its own aims.

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The fact that the real danger of cancel culture comes mainly from the right, that (at least in the United States), the right controls the Executive Branch, the Senate, most state governorships, a large part of the judiciary, and most of the C-suite?

And we aren’t talking about how they exercise their cancel culture powers ruthlessly, Colonel Vindman being just one recent example.

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Right wing cancel culture and totalitarianism is the real and present danger.

How is it that the people with intelligence and persuasive skills and self-awareness have such an obvious and massive blind spot?

They almost never talk about right-wing cancel culture. In fact, I don’t think they’ve ever used that phrase.

Why do they attack the weak and ignore the strong?

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But you cannot ignore the exact same problem coming from the right, particularly when right-wing cancel culture actually has effects on the country at large.

Otherwise, the entire enterprise looks like nothing much more than the latest internet religion and click-bait grift.

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https://medium.com/@BrianBeckcom/right-wing-cancel-culture-is-the-real-threat-why-are-we-ignoring-it-3d95435df8bc

Finally, the strip ends!

Snore

Comparing Trump to the Nazis. Oh, my. How original.

The moving eraser rubs, and having rubbed, moves on.

This “cancel culture”… is that anything like a yoghurt culture?

200 kids (possibly more) infected with Coronavirus at an overnight camp in Georgia.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid19-outbreak-georgia-summer-camp

Now you know how left wing Progressives, Social Democrats feel, and anti-war media personalities feel. They’ve been getting canceled for decades.