Since we’re doing this, I’ll mention another thing nobody’s supposed to mention: There are emergency vehicles which don’t get lights and sirens.
How is that relevant? Well, when the protest is centered around blocking traffic, the people in support of the protest are always careful to say that the protestors will let emergency vehicles through.
How do they know what an emergency vehicle is? Why, it’s the vehicle with the lights and sirens, of course!
The ambulance bringing the patient to to the hospital gets through.
The surgeon called in to save the patient’s life is blocked by the protest.
Nobody likes me when I say that second bit.
This is hardly new: Look at how “Political Correctness” is used, and how it’s not used to describe the things Republicans must believe in despite all evidence because belief in those things is a lodge-pin for Republicans, a mark of in-group status.
You can’t be a Republican if you don’t believe that global warming is a hoax. That isn’t considered Political Correctness because shut up.
Probably because you can’t name one case in all of recorded history where this actually happened.
By making this argument, you’re admitting it can happen, and that you have no way to prevent it from happening, which is my whole point.
Thank you for making my case for me, I suppose.
The surgeon could also be held up by sitting behind me in traffic while I’m on my way to get pizza.
Or he could have been hit by Skylab! (Damn you NASA!)
Or he could have hit an icy patch and skidded off the road! (Damn you county street maintenance!)
Or he could have choked on a deli sandwich! (Damn you Mr. Goldblatt!)
Or…or…or…(I can literally do this all day).
I got the joke and thought it was nicely done. FWIW.
Don’t joke about that! When I was a kid, I was terrified that Skylab was going to fall on our house. No appeals to reason or probability could mollify me. I was like 6 at the time.
First Amendment protections do not apply to her case.
Thanks.
We usually assign a different moral status to a pure accident and the result of something you did very much on purpose.
Personally, I hate it when I’m just minding my own business and then by pure accident I somehow find myself on the road headed toward a pizza parlor. (Oh dear FSM, at least let it not be the one where Hillary is conducting all sorts of untoward activities in the basement…!)
Surely most victims of “cancel culture” are by definition already famous/rich, or there would be nothing to cancel. Like Rosanne Barr. I suspect she can provide for her family with or without her slot on the new ABC show. And if she can’t, that’s on her, not the people who don’t want to watch a show with her in it.
On reflection, I can think of examples where that is not necessarily true, like performers getting their first big break only to have it snatched away when their Twitter history reveals unsavory remarks.
Still, I’m not sure that “it could affect their family” is a strong argument. We don’t automatically let assholes escape the consequences of their actions because of adverse impact on people around the offender. Responsibility still lies with the offender, not with those dealing out appropriate consequences.
(Not that I am an unthinking fan of cancel culture. My feelings are mixed.)
I’m just waiting for the first time a Cancel Culture brigade charges headlong into an active and competent union.
“At-will employment” is the underlying principle Cancel Culture is leveraging for its own ends, here; I’d say something about Identity Politics Left versus Labor Left but I’m sure that would just make everyone angrier.
“I used to be a federal contractor like you. Then I took a finger to the Presidential motorcade.”
ask this extreme right winger.
Or this one.
unfortunately, the actual right wing types have co-opted it to mean “anyone who tells me something I said was not cool.”
I’m getting too old to keep up with all of the buzz words right wingers throw around. I’m only now settling in to the idea that everything is a “narrative”.
That’s because those are real concepts that the many on the left live their lives by but like to downplay the existence of because it makes them seem emotionally stunted and ridiculous.
Wrong definition of “real concepts”. Hallucinations are a real concept; people do in fact hallucinate. The hallucinatory images are not real concepts; they do not exist outside the mind of the subject. You have conflated the latter with the former.
Nah, they’re labels and myths that right-wingers throw around because it makes them feel good and Fox News tells them to. Like I pointed out before, they won’t apply ‘cancel culture’ to things like conservative protests against gay teachers teaching, Sinead Oconnor ripping the pope’s picture, Janet Jackson’s nipple, Harry Potter including magic, Starbucks holiday cups, or interracial kissing on TV. I mean, how can cancel culture be this new left wing thing when conservatives lost their shit back during the original run of Star Trek over such ‘immoral’ behavior?