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The thing I hate about articles like this is that they imply that "cancel culture" was ever a legitimate thing and that Republicans actually cared about it. It was a made up term by them to target something that was making them look bad.
I'm struggling to articulate what I mean, but by suggesting that they've flipped sides, so to speak, gives credence to the original idea that it was a thing. I get it, and I think it's important to highlight the hypocrisy, but it still bugs me.
"cancel culture" IS a legitimate thing, and "conservatives" have been the leading perpetrator for thousands of years.
Their culture wars against gays, trans, "DEI" is "cancel culture". As always, they're projecting and conflating the consequences of being a piece of shit with freedom of speech — from government oppression — as their regimes also attack all anti fascist speech en masse.
Remember when conservatives banned sesame street for being "offensive" for having an intergated cast? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I agree with the sentiment, but the phrase "cancel culture" only exists because conservatives needed a label to slap on themselves to come off as victims. It's never been a legitimate thing in the way they are using it, but it has been weaponized by them forever, but it was labeled differently, or not at all.
It's a combination of the fact that conservatives are the dumbest people in the world, and the fact that they can just do whatever shitty things they want with our consequences is infuriating, coupled with the pure hypocrisy of their statements and actions. Really, I fucking hate conservatives more than almost anything in this world, and it taints everything they are tangentially associated with.