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Originally Posted by Annandale_Man
Correct. It is the left that started the "cancel culture" and boycotts of businesses that don't agree with their politics. No different than Nazis boycotting Jewish stores and firing them from other professions.  |
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Cancel Culture Trump campaign propaganda:
Trump has taken “cancel culture” to new and authoritarian heights.
Trump condemns ‘cancel culture’ — but no POTUS has utilized and espoused it more than Donald Trump. No other American has spent more time, energy and (taxpayer) resources trying to cancel dissent and enforce submission than Trump. Here are just a few of the ways that Trump has used or tried to use the powers of his office to punish critics and perceived enemies:
1. He has weaponized antitrust powers against a media organization whose coverage he dislikes.
2. He has threatened to “revoke” licenses of media organizations whose coverage he dislikes.
3. Since the Federal Communications Commission won’t go along with his instructions to “revoke” media licenses for specific news organizations, Trump has also urged his followers to cancel subscriptions to the cable company that owns the news organization in question.
4. He has weaponized the U.S. Postal Service against the owner of a media organization he dislikes (The Washington Post, which is personally owned by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos).
5. Trump has weaponized the government procurement process against the owner of a news organization he doesn’t like (also The Post and Bezos).
6. He has repeatedly accused a TV host he dislikes of murder, with zero evidence.
7. He has fired from one job, and blocked from promotion, a national security official whose speech he dislikes.
8. The president, other government officials and Trump family members have tried to block publication of books critical of the president.
9. Trump has demanded pledges of allegiance to him personally and blocked from jobs people who have ever said anything critical of him.
10. He has encouraged or tacitly condoned violence against protesters, journalists and dissidents.
11. He gassed peaceful protesters outside the White House so he could stage a photo op with a Bible.
Donald Trump is the king of cancel culture
No other politician has spent more time trying to cancel those who offend him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...trump-mcenany/
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“President Trump stands against … cancel culture, which seeks to erase our history,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany declaimed on Monday.
Here’s the hypocrisy: Donald Trump has embraced “cancel culture” his entire life. I cannot think of another politician, or public figure, who has spent more time trying to “cancel” critics than the thin-skinned former reality TV star in the Oval Office. Over the years, Trump has called for the boycott of leading U.S. brands such as Macy’s, Apple, and Harley Davidson, among others, because they displeased him in one way or another. He forces those around him into nondisclosure agreements and then threatens them with legal action if they dare speak out against him — including his own niece Mary, whose forthcoming tell-all book the president is desperately trying to … cancel.
This approach has only been amplified since he came into office, a period that has found him publicly and repeatedly trying to cancel both social media companies (“We will strongly regulate, or close them down”) and network news channels (“Challenge their license?”) while calling for prominent journalists who have upset him, such as Chuck Todd and Jemele Hill, to be fired. (In private, Trump has gone much further: according to his former national security adviser, the president wants some journalists to be “executed.”)
Then there is Colin Kaepernick. The president not only supported the benching of the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback but insisted NFL owners sack other players, too. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a ***** off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” he ranted at a rally in September 2017.
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Trump’s interest in silencing his opponents — the very thing cancel culture’s conservative critics decry — is more pronounced when he’s targeting members of his own political party. Take Mitt Romney. The sole Republican senator to vote for impeachment in February faced an intense backlash from both the president and his ideological allies — especially after Trump labeled him an “ass” and a “fool” and called for Romney’s impeachment. The president’s son demanded the Utah senator be expelled from the GOP. The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference said he could not even guarantee Romney’s “physical safety” should the senator decide to attend the organization’s annual event. In short, at Trump’s behest, the Republican Party canceled their own former presidential candidate.
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Remember Jeff Flake? Canceled. Bob Corker? Canceled. Justin Amash? Canceled. Mark Sanford? Canceled.
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Then there are the public servants who dared to testify against Trump during the House impeachment hearings. Ambassador Gordon Sondland and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman were both canceled by the president for having the temerity to speak out. Trump even canceled Vindman’s brother for the crime of being his identical twin.
The dead aren’t spared, either. The late Republican Sen. John McCain is such an objectionable figure to the president that White House officials asked “the U.S. Navy to move ‘out of sight’ the warship USS John S. McCain ahead of President Trump’s visit to Japan,”
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Trump decries ‘cancel culture’ — but no one embraces it more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...races-it-more/
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Right now, in 2020, here in the United States, we have an anti-free speech, authoritarian egomaniac sitting in the White House, backed by a cultish political movement steeped in grievance politics, constantly cracking down on critics, dissenting voices, and unpopular opinions. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have never stood against “cancel culture.” To the contrary, they embody it.
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