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Originally Posted by dobbles
OK, I have kind of a 'hot take' that I want some feedback on to see if I am just biased or if it is legit....
So cancel culture is talked about a lot now. I personally think its one of those faux outrage issues like the war on Christmas, but we see it brought up a lot. I generally associate it with people on the right who use the term to deride liberals and label them as social justice warriors et al. But isn't the single biggest victim of cancel culture actually Colin Kaepernick? And isn't that actually conservatives that have driven that movement?
To me it seems as if it's example #83945 of the hypocrisy of conservatives. Come at me bros!
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Kaepernick is the original victim of cancel culture, and there is no question that it was conservatives who were all too happy to carry it out.
Now with that said, there's enough evidence of people pissing and moaning about every single goddamn thing because they're offended across the entire political spectrum and calling for people to get fired, shows cancelled, ads pulled, and worse.
The most recent example is the Peloton Bike Christmas commercial. The actor who played the husband has been getting some pretty
heinous abuse hurled at him. And the people who are carrying out this stupid sh-t are people on
my side of the political spectrum, the left side. That's immensely frustrating because you typically think and hope that your side is better than that.
Aside, I think that's why people are so quick to point out when the left does this and tends to disregard the right doing it: expectations. We expect this mad, babyish conduct from the right; they've been doing it for decades, and it was usually liberals pushing back against it. Now they're engaged in their own form of the same behavior. Both use some form of moral appeal to justify it; the right leans on religion, the left leans on every single thing being interpreted as some type of -ism no matter the context.