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The fantasy is that “cancel culture” is a thing unique to the left, or that it’s somehow new.

Bud Light got cancelled for giving one can of beer to one trans influencer for a social media spot.

I’m old enough to remember the Dixie Chicks getting cancelled for opposing Bush and the Iraq War.



I’m old enough to remember leftists defending the spirit of freedom of speech, with respect to the Dixie chicks


They were rightly cancelled, but for the wrong reason. Really, the cancellation should have been for lauding his incredibly misogynistic and offensive portrayal of women.




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