Conservative and Right Wing cancel culture

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How many of those states has Israel since made peace with? I don't think Egypt or Jordan count any more.

Israel was founded on genocide, has repeatedly violated international laws, has been an aggressor in the Middle East, so to bring up former hostile nations to Israel seems like a stretch to me

Do their traumas justify their war crimes?

But before Hamas fired the rockets Israel did storm the Aqsa Mosque, the 3rd holiest site in Islam, during the holy month of Ramadan and shot people praying peacefully including my brother, and they did allow settlers to provocatively attack and harass Palestinians.

Yes I don't support the settler occupation of border areas. Their reasons to encroach into Palestinian areas seems to purely motivated by religious zeal.

I'm sorry about your brother, why did the IDF storm the mosque?

Right now my brother is still sleeping so I cant ask him for more details, but the pretext given was that there were people protesting the forced eviction of residents from Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem that was the center of a controversy with the Israeli government forcibly evicting Palestinians living there to make way for jewish settlers, and using that as a pretext they just started firing rubber bullets and throwing grenades into the Aqsa Mosque and there's even footage of soldiers randomly beating up people there to intimidate them.

once my brother wakes up I can ask him for more details since he witnessed it 1st hand

America did terrible s**t but at least here in America a good number of whites are open about this country's terrible history and atrocities and want to actually make things right; many whites were protesting for Floyd and many whites risked their lives and bodies last year during the BLM protests. If the Left-Wing Israelis are willing to go that far analogously for the Palestinian cause of justice then yeah im cool with them

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.