Conservative and Right Wing cancel culture

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It's amazing how cyberdad's left-liberalism vanishes when he's talking about Israel.

irresistible force meets immovable object. aka two opposing trains wrecking into one another. i fear the antichrist is the only one with any resolution.

... People complaining about a decision made in 1948 that can't be retracted should also consider giving back the US to native Americans. It's literally the same principle.

Calls for Gwen Berry to be kicked off of the U.S Olympic team after she turned her back on the U.S. flag while the national anthem was playing.

I accept the concept of "real-politik" where practical solutions override moral or ideological considerations.

The state of Israel is a reality. If you understand the Palestinian manifesto developed by the grand mufti during WWII when he was an ally of Adolph Hitler was to return all of Israel to Palestine. Subsequently this was always the stance taken by Yasser Arafat's PLO and today by HAMAS.

No world leader advocates Israel be razed to the ground and Israeli citizens be deported. Please name me one who isn't a nutjob?

An amicable/practical solution I would support is where Israel offers Palestinians seperate autonomous states and full protection of Palestinians as citizens in Israel is the ideal situation, But history has demonstrated that Palestinians are driven by ideology and ethno-nationalism so choose to wage conflict with the state of Israel so in that context Israel is entitled to protect their civilians (including women and children) against attacks.

In NT language it's called knowing which side your bread is buttered

We have been ranting about woke cancel culture a lot here lately, a lot of it from me. They did not invent this. It was the conservatives that wrote the book. All the wokes have done is written the updated edition.

I will be staying away from when it went beyond cancel culture to terrorism such as the KKK who by killing thousands thus canceled the reconstruction and the recent failed attempt to cancel the results of the election.

1934 - Hays code: Very strict “guidelines” for movies that in practice resulted in widespread self censorship to the point of being ridiculous like not showing married characters in the same bed. It also had racist elements such as no depicting interracial kissing or white women as slaves. The code expired in 1968.

World War II:Hollywood became a propaganda arm of the US government with racist characterizations of Japanese fighters commonplace. And yes there were those internment camps.

Early 1950s McCarthyism:Maybe the closest historical parallel to what has been happening recently. A campaign by Senator Joe McCarthy to out supposed communists in Hollywood and the State Department resulting in blacklists, firings and fear.

1966 Beatles Record Burnings:This happened after John Lennon said the Beatles were bigger that Jesus. He did not mean that was good thing. In the Bible Belt they did not take it that way.

1979 Disco Demolition Night:A promotion that turned into a riot. Fans were asked to bring disco records to a baseball game which were blown up. Disco music came out of the LBGTQ and black communities. Many of the records blown up that night were by non disco black artists. This was part of a larger backlash against disco music and culture. The week of the riot 6 of the top 10 singles were disco by September only 1 record of the top 10 was disco. Rock groups that added disco elements to songs received death threats.

1985 Parents Music Resource Center hearings: A successful attempt by Tipper Gore wife of Senator Al Gore and Treasury Secretary James Baker to have companies put warning stickers on records. It was believed Heavy Metal music had coded Satanic messaging. In fairness this was bi partisan, was not trying to cancel rock and a lot of the videos on MTV were exploitive and sexist, but somehow I felt this belonged.

During this time it was common for school districts to ban books that were considered perverted or sympathetic to socialists and communists.

2018 Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s commencement speech cancellation:Address canceled following death threats after he criticized President Trump.

2018 President of of Sonoma State University apology:Allowed black student to give a graduation speech criticizing police violence.

2021 Lauren Wolf firing:Reacting to conservative complaints The New York Times fires a reporter for tweeting that she got chills when seeing Joe Biden's plane landing for his inauguration.

And yet, despite all this, cyberdad claims that criticizing Israel is “tricky”. Is this perhaps because he thinks he’s not in a position to judge what goes on in other countries? No, because despite being an Australian, he’s only too happy to criticize countries like America.

Oh, and “give back your property to the nearest Native American tribe” doesn’t work on me, because I’m a Brit. It would actually be more apt for me to use that line on American white liberals who love posturing at other white Americans, but who don’t make any personal sacrifices in the way of “checking their privilege” themselves.

I accept the concept of "real-politik" where practical solutions override moral or ideological considerations.

The state of Israel is a reality. If you understand the Palestinian manifesto developed by the grand mufti during WWII when he was an ally of Adolph Hitler was to return all of Israel to Palestine. Subsequently this was always the stance taken by Yasser Arafat's PLO and today by HAMAS.

No world leader advocates Israel be razed to the ground and Israeli citizens be deported. Please name me one who isn't a nutjob?

An amicable/practical solution I would support is where Israel offers Palestinians seperate autonomous states and full protection of Palestinians as citizens in Israel is the ideal situation, But history has demonstrated that Palestinians are driven by ideology and ethno-nationalism so choose to wage conflict with the state of Israel so in that context Israel is entitled to protect their civilians (including women and children) against attacks