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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4808708" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>Cancel culture is a con. It’s a repeat of political correctness, which was probably a repeat of some earlier version of the same concept.&nbsp; American politics I find confusing but simple, when I talk to most regular people, there really isn’t that much difference between what they want the government to be doing. The divide as I see it is about who deserves help and who doesn’t.&nbsp; Lots of voters see a lot of other Americans as undeserving of all the things that they want the government to do. And instead of having that debate we get into proxy debates over cancel culture, which is transformed into how “the left” a meaningless term is silencing everyone. The cancel culture discussion isn’t about freedom of speech or being silenced by the all powerful left, it’s do people, who for most of American history didn’t get to shape political or societal discourse, now get to shape what’s acceptable in political or societal discourse or not.&nbsp; That’s it. It’s always about who in American politics. Who matters and who doesn’t matter politically.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4808708, member: 66082"] Cancel culture is a con. It’s a repeat of political correctness, which was probably a repeat of some earlier version of the same concept. American politics I find confusing but simple, when I talk to most regular people, there really isn’t that much difference between what they want the government to be doing. The divide as I see it is about who deserves help and who doesn’t. Lots of voters see a lot of other Americans as undeserving of all the things that they want the government to do. And instead of having that debate we get into proxy debates over cancel culture, which is transformed into how “the left” a meaningless term is silencing everyone. The cancel culture discussion isn’t about freedom of speech or being silenced by the all powerful left, it’s do people, who for most of American history didn’t get to shape political or societal discourse, now get to shape what’s acceptable in political or societal discourse or not. That’s it. It’s always about who in American politics. Who matters and who doesn’t matter politically. [/QUOTE]

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