You need to list the things that you find astonishing and that make you feel that it’s alright to criticise left wing folks like me. What are we doing that causes you to think we’re looney? Are you okay with Lindsey Graham sobbing on tv and begging people to give Trump money? Do you find that normal and sane? What about Trump even being able to run for President as a Felon? Should that be okay? How about all the far right goons over turning Roe vs Wade? Are you okay with women having to travel for abortions or delivering a child even though the mother has been told that the baby will not survive? Are you okay with Desantis banning books because he basically wants to rewrite history? What about affirmative action being turned upside down? Oh, yes…and Guns. Mass shootings every other day. Of course there’s a massive outcry from people. Where do you find the insanity? I find it insane that you don’t get up and do something. I find it looney that all you’re doing is pondering the outrageous lefties. And you are terribly wrong if you think people are going to give away their freedom to the Republicans. They are ruining this country. Plain and simple.
This entire reply is what they call "whataboutism." No self-reflection at all, just more easy targets of bad stuff done by the right. You're not engaging with this at all.
I ponder the outrageous lefties because its supposed to be my side and I am ashamed, and disturbed. Republicans being republicans is nothing new. The left turning into pod people lunatics, even including people I know, is very new. That's why it is my concern. If we don't clean up our own side, it will be a dozen more Trumps, as I keep saying, yet for some reason you imply I am not concerned about the Trump end of things. None of you are listening.
As for listing things. My god. It's too much to even begin. It's been nonstop insane stories for years and years now. I can't keep up and it's stressful to think about. How can I even begin, and how do I know if I spend all this time doing so, you or someone else won't just say I'm making it up, or exaggerating, or whatever, bla bla bla? Will it truly be worth my time?
This is hardly the end all be all of it, but this is a good starter. Here's 316 "cancel" stories, I believe all coming from the left, and I believe nearly all of them completely unreasonable, alienating and unappealing to normal democrats like myself.
@SoOppressed: Thread: Since so many claim that cancel culture doesn't exist, I propose a challenge: For every additional 1,000 followers I get, I will present 10 examples of cancel culture. I'm willing to bet I can...…
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On top of those stories is just tons of nonsense. I already mentioned the drag queen children story hour nonsense. THIS is what democrats are fighting for which will BRING TIDAL WAVES of votes to Trump-types in the new years. I guarantee it. But that's just one thing. I already said look into detransitioners. Go nuts. Go to their reddit, read their posts. Look into the various lawsuits happening. Look at what culture on the left has created. A total monster, harming so many children. It's disturbing.
Or maybe it was when the CDC said that quarantining is important, but protesting racism is more important than dying from a virus and said that's OK to do. Just utter nonsense. Or maybe its the publishing world, as I mentioned, canceling books left and right for not being progressive enough. Maybe its the people I ACTUALLY KNOW getting told by their editors to make their work more sensitive and "woke." Maybe its males winning against females in sports competitions and most recently, a women's beauty pageant. Maybe its the insane way the media acts when a possibly racial incident occurs and it turns into bizarre hyperbole and accusations and nobody can say one intelligent thing. Maybe its things like Disney cutting out a line of dialogue from the god damn French Connection because it might offend people. Maybe its people like JK Rowling and Dave Chappelle being on the naughty list for no good reason. Maybe it's personally watching multiple teen girls I know having identity crisis's and then deciding they are boys because they are being taught to hate their own bodies.
Maybe its insane anti-science nonsense about sex not being binary, even being printed in ideologically-compromised "scientific journals." Maybe its only a few years after MeToo and people like Louis CK being canceled, lefty activists saying "lol who cares if you see a penis in the locker room?" just because its a sign of some sort of perverse progressiveness. Maybe its things like "gender ideology" (there isn't two sexes, gender souls, two-spirit, non-binary, "gender identity", etc, etc, etc, etc, etc) being spoken of as if it was fact as opposed to a philosophy (or less generously, a religion), and that anyone who isn't on board with it is "far right" or a "TERF" or god knows what is coming next. Maybe its the recent audio recording of the teacher berating her students for not falling in line with gender ideology and yelling at them to go to another school (and then maybe it was lefty journalists misrepresenting the audio and writing shameful articles further denigrating the two girls and defending the teacher.) Maybe its that things happen like Jon Stewart having the "Race to Dinner" lady on his show as if she isn't a total scam artist lunatic. Maybe its totally insane and ugly books like "White Fragility" becoming best sellers and being taught in offices and corporations all around the country as if its holy gospel.
Or maybe its that homelessness and drug addiction has gotten worse in democrat run cities over the past few years, especially Seattle, and no one is doing anything about it, and they will blame anybody but themselves. Maybe it is the insane culture of paranoia and fear completely encouraged by the left to destroy the careers and lives of anybody who dissents on any of these orthodoxies. And that this toxic, oppressive culture is then further denied and treated as some fake boogieman whenever concerns are raised (good reference points here: Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed, and the book The Coddling of the American Mind.)
I'm just tired of it. I'm so tired, and everyone I know is too. The left has to stop. It has to be the party of reason, science, rationality. It no longer is. Its become a joke. And scarily authoritarian if one dissents, which this thread has become further proof of (of course I am "far right" for saying all this. That's how cults work. Never leave the cult, or else. Never criticize the cult, or else.)
Look, literally something has happened every day in the past 5-10 years to make me and everyone I know feel this way. Want a fun look into that? The podcast Blocked and Reported (careful! The two co-hosts are very much on the "canceled" naughty list...FOR NO REASON!) do a weekly show where they discuss this stuff. And yes, both hosts are on the left! And they're just like me, sickened by what the left is doing to itself. Another podcast that engages with this is The Fifth Column. I'm also a fan of Coleman Hughes' work on this subject too. I also, as I said, encourage you to read leftist criticism of the left, much of it coming from gay activists. Even some trans writers have been criticizing the excesses of the movement these days, that things have gone too far, and that children and women's safety as a sex class are at risk. Of course, if they say that, no matter their leftist bonafides, they too become excommunicated. Never question the cult.
I can predict how my post here will be taken. "Every ist and every ism" thrown...I don't care anymore. The left needs to be back to being kind, but sane, rational, nuanced, intelligent. No more clown show.
There ya go...loads of homework! Get to it
