The Unsilenced Majority: Conservatives 'punch back' against cancel culture, corporate 'wokeism'

[PreppedNsaved]

Who is going to provide the “smocking gun”?
No-one.

Once an investigation is completed, you'll know if your prediction comes to pass.

There isn’t a “there”, there: the long of short of it is that Donald J Trump lost his re-election bid fair and square and these “investigations will continue until we uncover the WHOLE conspiracy” is just about 20% of the population being unable to accept that fact.

That is the assumed outcome of many who don't want an investigation.

 

[Pommer]

Once an investigation is completed, you'll know if your prediction comes to pass.

Benghazi.
The GOP investigated the heck outta that.
This present set of investigations you’re envisioning...(who’s going to do them?
The Republicans don’t hold a majority in either house, they can’t set up a committee), will likely yield about the same results.

53% of Republicans believe that Trump won.
But 53% of 29% (and it’s even lower now, link is from October 2020), is 15.37% of the electorate.
So, good luck for your 15.37% getting these investigations started.

 

[TLK Valentine]

That may be your personal opinion on the matter, but there are more official ways of conducting an investigation than relying upon our personal feelings about a matter.

Indeed -- it's called a "court case."

Donald had 62 of them -- and he failed to deliver the goods in all of them.

I'd like to see an actual investigation. Perhaps a 9/11 style investigation. Those are rather popular now.

That may be your personal opinion on the matter, but there are more official ways of determining how best to spend the government's times and resources than relying on your personal feelings about a matter.

 

[TLK Valentine]

A handful of heavyweights in the conservative movement on Monday launched an advocacy group designed to push back against what the organization describes as a rising tide of “cancel culture” and “corporate wokeism.”

Excerpt:

“Part of it is that we want to build a list of grassroots conservatives and other everyday Americans who we can deploy when there’s a cancel culture issue,” Mr. Davis said. “So contact the CEO’s office at Coca-Cola and tell them, ‘Go woke, go broke.’”



The Unsilenced Majority: Conservatives ‘punch back’ against cancel culture, corporate ‘wokeism’

This again? Really?

Step 1: attempt to use the exact same strategy of the "enemy" that you've been railing against for years.
Step 2: fail hilariously at it due to lack of experience as well as lack of sincerity.
Step 3: blame __________ for failure.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[Arcangl86]

An investigation is meant to find whatever evidence there is to find, so that it can later be presented in a trial or other action.

Not true. In a criminal case you need probable cause in order to start an investigation, also known as evidence. In a civil case you need to provide enough facts to say that it is plausible that the law was broken to make it to discovery, which would be the investigation stage.

 

[FireDragon76]

People like this that whine about cancel culture and wokeism are often inconsistent in their proclamation. They engage in the same activity they decry. How many of them demand the resignation or firing of people they disagree with? How many of them demanded the firing of Colin Kaepernick? These right-wing ideologues have always supported "cancelling" things. Just ask Tinky Winky.

It's rich irony considering the far right invented "cancel culture", at least as far back as the 1990's. I am old enough to remember boycotts of Disney simply because they permitted gay people into their park and hired gay employees in their productions.


Now that they perceive the shoe being on the other foot, they don't like it at all. Hypocrisy.

 

[RDKirk]

It's rich irony considering the far right invented "cancel culture", at least as far back as the 1990's. I am old enough to remember boycotts of Disney simply because they permitted gay people into their park and hired gay employees in their productions.

Go back to Joseph McCarthy and blacklisting in the 50s.

 

[FireDragon76]

Go back to Joseph McCarthy and blacklisting in the 50s.

Of course, but that wasn't a "culture war" issue, was it? At least not overtly, I don't think so (one could argue, perhaps with some support ,it was an attempt to silence cultural dissent in the United States indirectly, especially by attacking Holywood and the arts). The modern Republican party has had a faction that defined themselves as culture warriors ever since George W. Bush signed on to the Evangelicals agenda and marked himself as one (George H. W. Bush was always an Episcopalian that didn't wear his religion on his sleeve).

 

[RDKirk]

Of course, but that wasn't a "culture war" issue, was it? At least not overtly, I don't think so (one could argue, perhaps with some support ,it was an attempt to silence cultural dissent in the United States indirectly, especially by attacking Holywood and the arts). The modern Republican party has had a faction that defined themselves as culture warriors ever since George W. Bush signed on to the Evangelicals agenda and marked himself as one (George H. W. Bush was always an Episcopalian that didn't wear his religion on his sleeve).

Politics is culture.