A Shallow Dive into Cancel Culture
Cancel Culture does not exist in any way, shape, or form. Never use that phrase again.
It is a concept made up by people saying stupid or unpopular shit that don’t want their voice muted.
For instance, if I ran for president on a platform of “every adult male must fight a bear to get into college, unless you are white”, you would disregard me because that is a stupid idea. However, at minimum, 5% of American voters would support me. Hey, Jill Stien got votes.
And if you are crazy enough to support a person who thinks linking education to fighting wild animals is a good idea, odds are you will support most of the other illogical crap I come up with. Like amassing the necessary signatures to get me on the ballot in 20 states.
Now, my base may be uneducated white frontiersmen from the Dakotas, Wisconson, Oregon, as well as Mississippi, Alabama, and (the real Home of Bear Fighting to get an education) Florida. But my 5% quickly grows due to a Facebook campaign spreading pictures showing virile men about to fight furious bears with clever captions, is now up to 7.5%. Not one of them has a job, yet they all have email and internet access.
No idea how.
When CNN refuses to allow me time to share what I believe is an innovative concept that is going to shut down the ‘Wussy-Boy Culture’ I see proliferating in colleges and universities, I tell it like it is.
In a Tweet, damning these elite clowns who are keeping my people from escaping the selfish Washington fat cats reign, I say they have “formed a culture of canceling out the people’s voice!!”. It’s a Kabal of sorts. A ‘Cancel Kabal’, if you will.
I now have a desperate, angry, insane (perhaps somewhat racist) group of people ready to make a lot of noise. Roughly 23 million of them. And they go nuts……
Let’s dissect what’s happened to this point….
Did anyone organize to mute me?
Not really, I was just spewing random shit and my position was bizarre.
Why wouldn’t the media support or give me balanced time?
Because I brought little to nothing to the table and stirred up racial tension. But I have 1st Amendment rights! However, that right does NOT afford me equal time nor does it mean you have to listen to me. 1st Amendment Rights go both ways.
Then one day I get a call from a member of one of the political parties that matter. The one with about 44% of the voters as opposed to other one. They sit me down and discuss my future as a politician and say they “feel we can get behind some of your positions if you can find some space for ours.”. That, “teaming up” is the best way to achieve my goals.
They already have the Atheists, The Otters, the conservatives, the PRO-GUNS crowd and they welcome my Bear-Fighters into the mix.
Then a ragtag group attacks the media until motivated into deciding it's worth a look if I am generating this much volume. We get our voices heard. Doesn’t matter that I lie, doesn’t matter that I’m crazy, I have an audience.
The media quickly realizes I am the mother of all police chases. Whether you are for the cowboys or the Indians, everyone has a team. Ratings spike.
I do an interview where I am poised, yet intense and unhappy with what’s being done in Washington. Especially to the Atheists, The Otters, the conservatives, the PRO-GUNS crowd and of course, Bear-Fighters.
Paris Hilton falls further from the public eye and her generation no longer thinks, “Best Friends Forever” when they hear “BFF”, they think, “Bear-Fighters, Fortitude” as I yell it (like Mel Gibson yells running into battle in Braveheart) at the end of every rally. And people begin to get used to my totally insane bullshit. They are comfortable with this level of crazy because they see it every single day.
I also just make shit up. But you have the forest and you have the trees; people hear, “They can’t take our guns and we need more shellfish hatcheries”, which fires up the gun people and the Otters. No one is trying to take anyone's guns and I don’t think you grew shellfish in hatcheries, doesn’t matter. What does matter is my base ignores my plan to nuke the moon to avoid the Chinese getting it and to kill the Nazi colony that has lived on the dark side of the moon since WW2. They also ignore my plan to send immigrants (all of them no matter country of origin) to Venezuela to make the “walk back further”. Especially the damn Canadians! It's time the Frostbacks got theirs.
Anyone with a brain turns me off and tunes me out. Because I’m a lunatic. And what does that leave? If you alienate rational people what you have left is irrational people. Pretty soon the Bear-Fighters start to get fired from their jobs because of the obsession with me. I, of course, have my people's backs.
In a statement calling out the Communist and Marxist ‘Cancel Kabal’ for the oppression and censorship, I pull no punches attacking the American Communist Party, except when blaming the evil oppressors to the North, Canada. Of course, there is no American Communist Party, and Canada has no idea what I’m talking ABOOT but my base is shockingly ignorant of reality.
*As Americans, we are brought up to hate communists. That being said, I doubt 15% of Americans could competently explain what it is. At its core, it's an economic system that doesn’t really work. Of course, it's more viable than Ayn Rand’s (pseudo plagiarism and dumbing down of Karl Marx’s COMMUNISTS MANIFESTO told through a fictional narrative where the rich are oppressed) ATLAS SHRUGGED*
Its persecution of the common man!
…….No, no it’s not. Things change.
Summation.
From 1647–1653, 17 people were burned alive for being witches. Do you think when someone finally said, “What the fuck are you crazy morons doing?” Some pilgrim (or whatever) wasn’t yelling,“Cancel Culture!”. In the south, a lot more people said a lot more insane stuff when Lincoln said, “What the fuck are you crazy morons doing, let those people go”. (to be fair I could see the south saying some dumb shit like ‘cancel culture’ as they spent that minute reloading their guns at Gettysburg) 258,000 people died from the south alone during the civil war. They died primarily to keep people locked up because they were born with slightly darker skin. Never underestimate the sheer stupidity and cruelty American’s are capable of.
I am happy about one thing though, we now have a common phrase to explain away this type of idiotic bullshit. GAS-LIGHTING. That’s all invoking Cancel Culture is, Gas-lighting.
When someone calls another person “colored” cancel culture isn’t what breaks their nose. Time changes things and everything evolves or dies. A lot of people in this country are trying hard to stop evolution, but they won’t. It doesn’t work that way.
Again, your First Amendment rights don’t allow you to keep screaming at someone when they say, “I don’t want to listen” and walk away. If you chase them yelling, you go to jail, get fired, punched, etc.
So next time someone brings up “Cancel Culture”, you ask them, ‘Are you an Otter or believe in Bear Fighting?’
Let them figure it out.
