Suddenly, the Republicans are discovering the “terrible evils” of cancel culture and hate speech prosecution aren’t so bad after all. From David Haggith at thedailydoom.com:
Cancel culture has now spread like a pandemic through the highest levels of society, but it looks about to get a lot meaner and more intrusive into your very livelihood and family security.
I only have to look back to the Biden years to remember when Republicans/conservatives were united against “cancel culture,” and I don’t have to look back much further than that to remember when they were all up against the idea of “hate crimes.”
“A crime is a crime,” they said. “It doesn’t matter if you murdered someone because he’s Black and you hate Blacks. It matters that you murdered someone at all. You shouldn’t get a worse sentence because hatred motivated you, rather than anger or vengeance or jealously or any other reason. You KILLED SOMEONE!”
I believed all of those things, too. The problem for me now, which leaves me out of sorts with many Republicans/conservatives, is that I STILL DO. I still believe it is terrible to fire someone for their political views. Sure, if they are speaking their views on the job and it is interfering with workplace morale or turning away customers, it is fair to say, “Your time isn’t your time for your speech when I’m paying you for your time. So, stop.” Then fire them for insubordination if they do not stop.
There are many ways my world was stood on its head during the Biden years, and there have been many more in the past eight months. Suddenly, Republicans are leading cancel culture, and they are the ones pushing hard against hate crimes. In fact, they’ve gone one worse on hate crimes than I’ve ever seen. Last I heard “speech” was not a crime at all; but now, if it is “hate speech,” it is not just cancelable as it was in the Biden days; it’s a crime that the US Attorney General says the government will be pursuing aggressively. Hate doesn’t just make a crime a worse crime; it now makes something that was never a crime into a crime.
“Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being ‘pushed to an extreme,’ not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.” John Stuart Mill, 1859
Comrade Lefty will use it too when the CPUSA (D) comes back?
Those spiking the ball over Jonah Schimmel Jimmy Kimmel don’t know that he had one year left on contract.
Can’t we all just get along in our democracy?
Mommygov needs to pass a law and fix boo boo.