“Cancel Culture”

Tucker Carlson Says Show Is Being Targeted for Cancelation

Tucker Carlson Says Show Is Being Targeted for Cancelation

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said on the Thursday night episode of his program that his show has been targeted for cancellation.

Carlson said that “in the last several weeks, and particularly in the last 24 hours, the call to take this show off the air by groups funded—for real—by the Ford Foundation, or by George Soros, by Michael Bloomberg, by Jeff Bezos, has become deafening, going after our advertisers, going after the companies that carry our signal into your home.”

What’s more, he added, there has been a “cowardice and complicity” on behalf of the “entire media class in all of this,” suggesting that eventually, reporters at legacy news outlets will be targeted as well.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Pelosi, Democrats eject Marjorie Taylor Greene from House committees

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow House Democrats on Thursday voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from the Education and Budget committees to which she had been appointed by the Republican minority.

Most Republicans stuck by Greene, arguing that her adherence to an array of conspiracy theories predated her election and that the vote would set a worrying precedent for removing minority-party legislators from posts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", USA

‘O Canada’ without the cross – why it’s time to revisit the lyrics of the national anthem

In my view, the French and bilingual lyrics of O Canada now need revision. The bilingual version uses two lines from the French version. First, “ton histoire est une épopée des plus brillants exploits,” officially translated as “your history is an epic of brilliant deeds.” I embrace this line as an eloquent evocation of the best moments of our history and an aspirational goal for the future.

The second line, however, gives me pause: “car ton bras sait porter l’épée, il sait porter la croix,” translated as “for your [Canada’s] arm knows how to wield the sword, your arm knows how to carry the cross.” These words, of course, reflect the importance of the Catholic church in 19th century Quebec, the context in which O Canada was written. But to me, as a Jew, they now sound non-inclusive and obsolete.

h/t Marvin

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Canada

Students fed up with woke culture at universities launch free-speech group to embrace wide-ranging opinions amid fears debate is being stifled

Students are launching a nationwide project to champion free speech in universities over fears that debate is being stifled in favour of woke culture.

It aims to address a free-speech crisis on campuses and encourage the young to embrace wide-ranging opinions without the fear of saying the ‘wrong’ thing.

The news comes after a survey found more than a quarter of students censored their own views on politics or ethical matters, and 40 per cent believed their careers would be harmed if they expressed their true thoughts.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Peak Woke"

McCarthyism fashionable again in Hollywood?

“…This is the same celebrity class that weighs in on, well, everything — immigration, voting rights, diversity, gun laws, Black Lives Matter. You name the issue, and stars have plenty to say about it. Heck, they can’t stop talking … except when the subject turns to free speech, apparently.

How ironic, since it’s the one issue they’re the most qualified to explore.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Celebrity Idiots, Hollywood

The Purge Deepens, Literary Agent Fired Merely For Having Parler and Gab Accounts

We have covered a gazillion cases since last spring of people ‘cancelled’ for social media posting or public statements that offend the dominant leftist orthodoxy on campus and elsewhere. It’s very personal combat, almost always left cancelling right, and it’s setting the nation against itself.

This story though, reveals just how deep the intolerance and repression goes — a literary agent was fired not for what she said, but merely for having opened accounts on Parler and Gab to escape the stifling atmosphere on Twitter.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Batshit crazy lefties, Censorship, Censorship on Social Media, Leftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right

The witch-hunting of Boyz magazine

The witch-hunting of Boyz magazine

We are being punished by the ‘progressive’ establishment merely for debating trans issues.

We should be publishing Boyz this week. It was going to be our National HIV Testing Week issue as this year’s campaign starts on Monday (1 February). Each year we have devoted an edition of Boyz, the gay men’s lifestyle and health magazine, to this important campaign, funded by the government through Public Health England, and commissioned annually since 2012 from the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT).

They eat their own.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Big Tranny