Reblogged on kommonsentsjane/blogkommonsents.
https://glitternight.com/2021/11/03/yes-cancel-culture-is-an-attack-on-freedom-of-expression/
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Listening to these roosters crow about “cancel culture” doesn’t make me tense. It just makes me terribly alert to their having a bad day and could use some psychological help because they are the ones who feel inferior.
kommonsentsjane
Free Speech has been under assault by both Liberals and Conservatives in recent decades, but mostly by Liberals in the past twenty years via Political Expression and Cancel Culture. There was a time when Liberals actively supported freedom of expression because they understood it was THE primary freedom from which all other freedoms flowed. The early figures from my own country’s history protected speech with the FIRST Amendment to the Constitution because they knew all too well that ideas that are considered taboo and offensive today might be considered essential truths by future generations.
The forever-hypocritical 1960s generation of American Liberals were all about Free Speech when THEIR ideas were the ones offending people. Once they considered themselves to be comfortably in the cultural, educational and political driver’s seat by the early 1990s they decided they wanted their own already outdated worldview enshrined in stone and presented as THE one true…
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