Plus: the “centrists”(moderates? I don’t know what they prefer to be called) need someone to enforce their shit.
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Hah! Good point.
Speaking of CPAC they are apparently running on America Uncanceled and (you guessed it) they just cancelled someone. Insert the usual “whatever happened to freedom of speech?!” gibberish here.
In fairness, the guy is waaaay out there
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More out there than claiming democrats drink the blood of children in a pizza shop basement while jewish controlled space lasers cause forest fires in california?
He hasn’t said anything that others haven’t said over the years. I mean, blame it on the Jews is centuries old.
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They want it to cancel someone they don’t agree with, but want to forbid someone they agree with getting cancelled. Can’t have it both ways and also be logically consistent. I don’t think they have an issue with being logically inconsistent though (they demonstrate this over and over it seems).
There’s a difference between canceling someone for political views and canceling someone for antisemitism and/or straight up racism. What they did is meme ready but not actually inconsistent. We’ve already seen on this board and elsewhere that you can’t argue with conspiracy theorists and it’s folly to try to “discuss” something that can’t be discussed.
That’s different than canceling someone because they don’t like “defund the police” or they think affirmative action is bunk, or other things.
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They just didn’t offer him their platform. did they go after him and try to get him fired and removed from all other platforms?
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These are not always independent of political views.
I agree with what you are saying though.
I grew up in a conservative circle. I knew families that would not support Target or Disney because of their pro LGBT stances. That is fine IMO, just don’t go complaining because someone else decides to cancel / boycott Chic Fillet because of their anti LGBT stance. That is logically inconsistent.
And who would take this CPAC seriously when it invites someone named Young Pharaoh?
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Same cheek of the same Arse, I imagine.
Indeed.
I’ve long considered CPAC a place for GOP grifters to get drunk and give each-other STD’s.
@zecarlo :
I THINK they originally wanted “Q-Anon Shaman”…but I think he is either on travel restriction and/or is in jail.
Put yourself in the simple shoes of a black voter. Would you not feel compelled to vote for whomever brought in another black person to serve as court jester?
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If I were a Republican who doesn’t know any black people, I might think that way.
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Exactly.
I think it’s more the funny optics to me. I’m not saying they should have let him speak but if you’re going to name your thing America Uncanceled probably better do your research first before this happens.
Then again Trump is speaking a guy who carried a racist theory for years so one would think that’s not exactly a deal breaker at the show.
I don’t see your point. That’s just as true as North Korea sneaking in Biden ballots through the harbors of Maine.
The thing is, whoever this person is, he must have said some things that they did agree with in order to have been invited there in the first place. I think this further exposes the antisemitism that exists on the, at the very least, fringe aspect of the Republican/conservative/Trump party/ whatever they call themselves these days. Because conspiracy theories always end up pointing a finger at the Jewish people. And to be fair, that antisemitism also exists with the Left’s version of these creeps.
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