I note that both sides also use cancel culture type attacks when the target is someone they don't like
but there's hypocrisy on the right because they also push plenty of "pc gone mad" "lets get out of the EHCR" etc stuff to their readership decrying the kinds of character assignation stuff for saying the wrong thing and putting overemphasis on side issues, that they then go and pull themselves. Che's 'racism' boils down to a couple of quotes in his early 20s, against years fighting in the literal sense for black liberation in places like the congo. the "zelensky homophobia row" is about some minister making a homophobic comment on social media. anyway, not trying to start an argument or to suggest they're without flaws, just pointing out if they don't like cancel culture, they shouldn't make those kinds of attacks
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 25 Jun 2022, 4:26,
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I dispute your whitewash of Guevara’s transgressions.
You’ve already moved on to cancel culture, the ECHR and the media.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 25 Jun 2022, 14:01,
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Moved on to cancel culture? That was my opening sentence
Do you read things in reverse? Anyway, I didn’t really want to get into a debate about the merits of Guevara, just pointing out that the spectator articles you share like the one titled “ zelensky homophobia” which are trying to confect some outrage over some social media comment his minister made, well that same mag is constantly rallying about political correctness gone mad, e,g www.spectator.com.au/2020/06/the-pc-monster-wants-to-eat-all-the-fun/ , and thats hypocritical, and they’re not the only ones on the right that have this double standard. i hope this make it clearer. I use ‘cancel culture’ as a term for it, but you could equally call it “getting disproportionately outraged by petty bullshit like tweets and opinions”
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 25 Jun 2022, 15:16,
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