Progressive supporters of Cancel Culture argue that by cancelling others they are exercising their own rights for Free Speech and Free Association. As a Dissident Liberal I would like to make a counter-argument. On one hand I concede that you made a valid point. On the other hand, if you are a Progressive supporter of Cancel Culture, then anyone who values Freedom should take all reasonable legal steps against your Best Interests: 1. If you have a job, especially under a Conservative employer, then anyone who values Freedom should take every reasonable legal step to relieve you of your duties. 2. If you need any help, then anyone who values Freedom should offer you minimal help required by the Law of the Land. 3. If you are in a trial either as the Defendant or a Plaintiff, then anyone who values Freedom should use their Jury Nullification rights against your Best Interest. Sadly, most Progressives strongly support Cancel Culture. Sadly, most Conservatives have only lukewarm support of Freedom -- unlike Liberal Liberals of 1960s and 1970s. Hopefully, there will be a movement of people who strongly oppose Cancel Culture, but only time will tell.
cancel cilture, from the hollywood black list to the dixie chicks, is not a "progressive" policy. no conservative has been "cancelled" by the left, but by their corporate sponsors and other capitalist enterprises.
I don’t think it’s being completely honest when a person says the left doesn’t cancel people. If you’re putting pressure on a person’s corporate sponsors, or capitalist enterprise to end it’s association with that person, you can’t say “look it was the company, not us who canceled that person.” That being said, the right has pulling this crap for a long time.
Sadly Progressives are very passionate about maintaining Cancel Culture. Conservatives are not passionate about ending Cancel Culture. Liberal Liberals are few and far between.
I'm split on it. Certainly it is the right of these people and associations of people to choose not to associate with whoever they want. I myself have always held that above and beyond your human right to free speech I will in my own domain respect your speech and listen attentively. I have no desire to boycott, steamroll, or depilatory anyone. Clearly others disagree, and that's fine. It is breeding a big reaction against them in response. Moreover, anyone who has been cancelled instantly realises the injustice of it and becomes more open to the other side. We don't need them. We don't need big tech, we don't need the mainstream media, the one benefit of Cancel Culture is that it forces us liberals to make our own platforms that are insulated from the woke mob. This will make us stronger in the long term.
There’s hardly any advocates for free speech anymore. It’s speech for me, and not thee that’s the new mantra.
Cancel culture was a summer internet fad among covid restricted bored woke young progressives. Last year. It's not a real thing anymore. Never much was.
