The one reason we all can't speak our minds is cancel culture. Cancel culture was created by so-called progressive democrats. I've only ever voted Democrat in my life, but I just can't support that anymore. Don't downvote till you've read please.

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[–]DogeWalker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ok, and I understand those concerns. I'm just coming from a position where... if we are honestly concerned about this stuff, we must think critically and rationally about it, and not have these kinds of extreme knee-jerk reactions.

If we react without thinking rationally, we're no better than those doing the cancelling.

[–]OrneryStruggle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not a knee jerk reaction and I don't know why you think it is. It is a rational reaction to many years of worsening conditions for people like us - and not just people like us in the sense of "GC feminists" but anyone who is not down with the current trendy beliefs. I am an immigrant to a rich western country from a poor "backwards" country and this targets people like me and my family a lot more than it targets upper class western people with liberal arts educations. It is an assault on everything that leftism and liberal western societies in general used to stand for. It is a reinstantiation (but worse, according to my parents) of everything that caused them to leave our home country.

Not cancelling people on principle is in fact always going to be better than doing the cancelling.