Liberal writers, activists sign open letter calling to end 'cancel culture' - Rowling, Chomsky, Weiss & Steinem

[Old Man Jingles]

Liberal writers, activists sign open letter calling to end 'cancel culture'
Liberal writers, professors and activists have come together and signed an open letter in the hopes of ending "cancel culture."

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss and political activist Noam Chomsky are a few of more than 100 names attached to the piece titled "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" that was published Tuesday in Harper's Magazine.

"Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial," the letter begins. "Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts."

"But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken
our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.
As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second."

 

[Old Man Jingles]

@rickyb ... your man Chomsky defected!

 

[rickyb]

@rickyb ... your man Chomsky defected!

our yoda

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

These Marxists always turn on each other eventually. Looks like some are starting to get nervous about that.

 

[rickyb]

These Marxists always turn on each other eventually. Looks like some are starting to get nervous about that.

govt and capitalist censorship will be used against us

 

[newfie]

These Marxists always turn on each other eventually. Looks like some are starting to get nervous about that.

matter of time before the marxist statues fall

 

[Old Man Jingles]

matter of time before the marxist statues fall

I'm game!
Where is that statue of Lennon?

 

[Fred's Myth]

I'm game!
Where is that statue of Lennon?

John? Or maybe the Lennon Sisters?

Or did you mean Lenin?

 

[Mutineer]

LMFAO! Liberals hoisted by their own petard and eating their own. Again. It would be funnier if it were not so equally disturbing.

The 100 or so who signed that letter all helped to uncork the genie that they are trying to stuff back into the bottle.

Rich, woke, white liberals have been running zig-zag and throwing working-poor, white people into the paths of those crocodiles for years.

Poetic justice.

 

[Box Ox]

govt and capitalist censorship will be used against us

Funny you'd advocate so heavily for communism while also worrying about censorship under our current economic and governmental structure.

Typical of the hard left. "x" is fine as long as it's being wielded as a club to reinforce your own ideology.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

John? Or maybe the Lennon Sisters?

Or did you mean Lenin?

I Imagine it was John!

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Funny you'd advocate so heavily for communism while also worrying about censorship under our current economic and governmental structure.

Typical of the hard left. "x" is fine as long as it's being wielded as a club to reinforce your own ideology.

True of the Right as well and of any group of people. Just saying!

 

[Box Ox]

True of the Right as well and of any group of people. Just saying!

Indeed. Thought my specific mention of the hard left went nicely with your posted letter.

Maybe we'll get an open letter from the hard right too.

 

[rickyb]

Funny you'd advocate so heavily for communism while also worrying about censorship under our current economic and governmental structure.

Typical of the hard left. "x" is fine as long as it's being wielded as a club to reinforce your own ideology.

i think im against censorship for all.

 

[Box Ox]

i think im against censorship for all.

Then you're a bad communist.

 

[zubenelgenubi]

Then you're a bad communist.

Is there such a thing as a good commie?

 

[vantexan]

Is there such a thing as a good commie?

Apparently the American Left thinks so.

 

[Serf]

What I got out of it was literally; 2+2 = 4 is a symbol of western imperialism and colonization.

 

[Box Ox]

Then you're a bad communist.

Is there such a thing as a good commie?

Meant it as in @rickyb is committing an act of communist malpractice. Hopefully the CPC won’t hear he’s against censorship and make him turn in his Young Canadian Communist Club membership card and lunch box.

 

[newfie]

I'm game!
Where is that statue of Lennon?

United States[edit]

• Las Vegas - outside Red Square Restaurant, Mandalay Bay Hotel - Headless (removed in 2019 when restaurant closed)
• New York City - on top of the Red Square apartment building, E. Houston St. in the East Village[3] Moved to Norfolk St. in 2016, half-block south.[4]
• Seattle - Fremont neighborhood (See Statue of Lenin (Seattle))
• Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, there is a large metallic bust of Lenin on display at the corner of La Brea Avenue and 4th Street.
• Hutchinson, Kansas - inside the Soviet wing of the Cosmosphere
• Willimantic, Connecticut - hidden in a scrapyard to avoid vandalism.[5]