Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Cancel culture is so out of hand
Date:	2/7/2022 9:40:38 AM

I keep wondering if this cancel nonsense will ever die.  I used to think that once the left started eating their own that it would die the inglorious death it deserves.....but now I am beginning to wonder.  This is a direct threat to our freedom of speech and is being done with the complicity of big tech and the government.  Recent victims are Whoopi Goldberg for her stupid comments on the Holocaust.  Next is Joe Rogan which has been incredibly interesting.  Talk about a strange turn of events.  We have Neil Young, who made millions for his opposition to the government who has done a complete 180 and is now schlepping for the man by removing his music from Spotify.  He was quickly joined by other former radicals who now in their old age have become spokesmen for big government.  How the worm turns. 

But even these latest cancel culture outrages shows no sign of abating.  Unless and until we refuse to comply with the mobs.  It is also a stark reminder that it's not only the government that can negatively impact our rights but also large tech corporations that control far too much of the flow of information.  They are run by dedicated leftists that realize they cannot compete in the arena of ideas and have to rely on censorship.  If they have to destroy a few of their own fellow travelers in the ideological world it is apparently a small price to pay.

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	100 million reasons to
Date:	2/7/2022 8:31:21 PM

Move to Rumble!  Over 4 years but Joe will be moving 

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Cancel culture is so out of hand
Date:	2/7/2022 8:33:15 PM

I've found this quite amusing.  In the instance of Whoopi, she has been on the nastiest people on The View, then she says something totally stupid and she gets cancelled. But she is protesting that she didn't mean exactly what she said.  People that make their living running their mouths are shocked when the mob rule is applied to them.  

I am not familiar with Joe Rogen, but I keep hearing the stories about this one or that one pulling their music from Spotify because he hasn't been cancelled.  Now it comes out that sometime in the past he used the N word and of course that means every black person has to demand that he be cancelled.  Most of those pulling their music are has beens and probably not getting many hits on Spotify anyway.  

But I do share your concern.  For a long time, it was just being shouted down if you didn't mouth the approved narrative, but now it's gone further in that they want to SHUT you down for daring to have another opinion and speaking publicly.  It is scarey and I think it says a lot about the state of our society.  

And then I am reading about banning books in Texas.  Who the hell is banning books in 2022?  That's as scary to me as the verbal stuff.  My parents, let alone my school, never banned any books that I chose to read.  Just another attempt to censor thoughts and ideas that do not conform, abeit to a different message.  

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Cancel culture is so out of hand
Date:	2/7/2022 8:38:44 PM

My parents forbid  Playboy 

Name:	CRD -	Reply
Subject:	Cancel culture is so out of hand
Date:	2/8/2022 9:59:56 AM

Rogan was a comedian.  His use of the N word occurred in large part to his analysis of Rap culture and "music" lyrics found in that genre.  If Joe didn't have as many listeners as he does, I can tell you that the leftist loonies would not be going after him as hard as they are.  His and Spotify's mistake was issuing their apology.  They will find more of what they find as "offensive" on past Rogan podcasts and it will never end until he is canned.  Lesson to be learned, do not succumb to the woke.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Cancel culture is so out of hand
Date:	2/8/2022 10:53:02 AM

Agree +1000%!  He should have never apologized but should have explained that his use of the n word was quoting what others said or wrote.  And he should have shown clips of Biden using the n word in Congress as proof that this is not egregious or offensive.  But fear of losing your source of income is a powerful motivator and few have the courage to take that chance.  Sadly I believed he was one of them but I guess he was wrong.  Maybe Rumble can really match the Spotify compensation which would be a win-win for freedom of speech.  Rogen has a very large and faithful following and that would be a bonanza for Rumble.  And Spotify can take comfort in once again being able to make $75 a year on Neil Young music.  If their CEO wasn't a spineless wimp I would almost feel sorry for him.  

I cannot fathom that these people don't understand what the goal here is.  Rogen provided a forum for dissenting opinions and beliefs on the ChiCom virus and for that he must be silenced.  It is scary fascism and must be resisted or we are lost as a country.  The only opinions that will be allowed are those approved by the government and big tech and that would go a long way toward ending our constitutional republic.  Ben Franklin was right when he said our form of govt was a constitutional republic, if we can keep it.  Only when people have the courage of their convictions will we put an end to this craziness.  Heck, even France thinks our cancel culture is crazed....and I can't believe we are in a situation where France makes more sense than us.