{"id":12458,"date":"2020-06-22T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-cancel-crew-will-come-for-you-someday-soon\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:20:00","slug":"the-cancel-crew-will-come-for-you-someday-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-cancel-crew-will-come-for-you-someday-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"#The \u2018cancel\u2019 crew will come for you someday soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The \u2018cancel\u2019 crew will come for you someday soon<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 21, 2020 |<\/span> 6:20pm <\/p>\n

\n A moral\u00a0panic is sweeping the nation. How we react to the pitchfork hordes will determine the fate of our country for a generation or longer.<\/p>\n

We call what the hordes do to our fellow citizens \u201ccancel culture,\u201d but the term is\u00a0far too cute to capture the cruel, mindless and life-destroying process taking place all around us in the name of \u201cfighting racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tendency has been with us for some time, but the current, \u00adextra-crazed moment has accelerated its malignant energies: Locked in for months due to COVID-19, we re-emerged into a society more enraged and at war with itself than ever before.<\/p>\n

Then the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis took the ideological madness to the next level. The great majority of Americans agreed that Floyd\u2019s death was horrific and that the police officers responsible for it must be held to account. But that sane consensus wasn\u2019t enough, as far as the cancel left was concerned: Enemies had to be found and eradicated.<\/p>\n

And if there weren\u2019t enough racist enemies, then more of them had to be invented.<\/p>\n

Prominent conservatives, as I have pointed out in these pages, can rarely be canceled. A Sen. Tom Cotton might express an opinion deemed utterly verboten, but the left can\u2019t drum him out of public life or destroy him.<\/p>\n

But all other Americans \u2014 including those with small or nonexistent public profiles \u2014 are vulnerable. It\u2019s a chilling development: We can\u2019t cancel a Cotton or a Ben Shapiro, so let\u2019s cancel citizens who might dare to share similar opinions.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what was attempted with Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy. Gundy wore a T-shirt featuring the logo of TV station called One America News<\/a>. OAN has a variety of personalities presenting a variety of opinions, general<\/a>ly right of center.<\/p>\n

When the swarm came after Gundy, he folded, saying he was sorry for the \u201cpain and discomfort\u201d he had caused.<\/p>\n

No one pointed to any particular opinion promoted by an OAN host that was beyond the bounds of discourse. We can\u2019t shut down OAN, so let\u2019s go after its viewers.<\/p>\n

Being an unknown private citizen won\u2019t save you. In one of the strangest pieces in the history of journalism, The Washington Post outed a left-leaning woman, who isn\u2019t a public figure, for attending a Halloween party two years ago in black face. That she was making fun of Megyn Kelly (who had been accused of making light of minstrelsy) didn\u2019t save this woman from ritual shaming in a major newspaper; her employer summarily fired her.<\/p>\n

The sheer viciousness of ruining a private citizen app<\/a>arently escaped the Post\u2019s writers and editors. In fact, there is a good chance they saw themselves rendering a public service.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t even have to have committed the offense to be fired. LA Galaxy midfielder Aleksandar Katai was released from his contract over his wife\u2019s social<\/a>-media posts. Somehow in America in 2020, if the actions of one spouse reflect poorly on the other, he can lose his job.<\/p>\n

In Atlanta, the stepmother of one of the cops involved in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks was fired from her human-resources job, by her account simply because of her family link to the officer. Communist regimes the world over similarly punish guilt by family association.<\/p>\n

To fight this moral panic, ordinary people will have to be brave, and we all need to show solidarity: People will have to stand up for their friends when they\u2019re in danger of being swarmed, companies will have to stand up for their employees and the rest of us will have to speak out for all of them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tough ask in a still-shaky economy and with a deadly virus still menacing the elderly and infirm. It\u2019s easier to bend the knee than to withstand the slings and arrows that inevitably attend refusing to do so. But it\u2019s something we must do to return to sanity and be a cohesive country again. Courage is not just helping others \u2014 it\u2019s helping yourself, too: Are you sure the mobs won\u2019t come for you?<\/p>\n

Twitter: @Karol<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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