Weekend Onesie: Cancel Culture

 

Weekend Onesie:

Cancel Culture

This week, one of the repercussions dealt in light of the insurrection the previous week has been the banning of the orange ogre and those of his ilk on a number of social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube. 

In addition, Parler, a social networking service favored by the evil one's minions was removed for download by a number of providers before ultimately losing its service provider. 

The extreme right decry these moves as censorship and evidence of what they term 'cancel culture', both of which impede their first amendment rights; their freedom of speech.

But their argument is as faulty as their continued beliefs that the election was stolen from them (they lost fair and square) and that Hillary Clinton and a bunch of Satan worshippers are operating a child sex trafficking operation in the basement of a pizza parlor (a building with no basement).

Pointing out the idiocy of such beliefs has proven futile. Facts don't faze this group. You might as well talk into the wind. 

And as for those, like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had the audacity (and poor taste) to whine about losing massive amounts of followers (in Sarah's case 50K) once Twitter gave the boot to some 70,000 violent, threatening, racist, extremist, QAnon-related accounts... one can't help but wonder if that is something they should be calling attention to and why they would want those type of followers in the first place.

To those folks, I would like to say: If this is cancel culture in action? 

Then I'm all for it. 

Just as you can't yell 'fire' in a movie theatre, you can't incite violence against elected officials, organize to storm our government buildings or conspire to interfere with our democracy. You engage in that type of atrocious behavior, you need to be silenced. 

The internet does not exist to promote hate. Hate is not free speech. Hate is ugly and violent and needs to be put in its place. 

So, tough noogies, Sarah Huckabee (#MommaTellsLies4ALiving) Sanders and all you other deplorables.

Those of us who believe in truth, facts, science, logic, empathy, diversity and that the basic needs and safety of all individuals need to be guaranteed?

We've spent the last four years at the mercy of your unending stream of lies, falsehoods, and faulty thinking. We've had to bear witness to your selfishness, your greed, your hunger for power. 

But this is not The Thunderdome. 

We do not battle one another like some post-apocalyptic warriors. The Wild West was tamed a long time ago. So holster your pea-shooters, kids, or your toys will be taken away.

We've been traumatized, not unlike the rest of the world, by your fascist, insidious, hideous ways. 

And we have had enough!

That's right, bitches...

You've been canceled!

Now.. 

Be best. Be gone.

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Special shout out to Sixpence over at (LO) IMPRESCINDIBLE

for today's photo. I found it while digging into the deep recesses of his legacy. 

(P.S. Don't worry... I cleaned up after myself.)

Have a lovely weekend, all.

Stay Strong. Stay Safe. Stay Healthy

- uptonking from Wonderland Burlesque.

DJ Culture - The Pet Shop Boys

Wonderland Burlesque's Turdscooter of the Week: Jack Whitley

Wonderland Burlesque's 

Turdscooter of the Week: 

Jack Whitley

Jack Whitley, chairman of the Big Stone County Republican Party, issued a couple of character defining comments on his Facebook page last week (see below), causing quite a bit of outcry from the Muslim community.  Yet, he’s refusing to retract or apologize for them, despite state GOP officials condemning his statements, calling them “outrageous”.

 The Minneapolis Star Tribune contacted Mr. Whitley and he had this to say:

“Muslims are terrorists. They don’t belong in this country. Their attitude and their agenda don’t belong in this country. They cause terror and discontent, total chaos everywhere they are.  I have no desire to hold hands and play patty-cake with these people. It's pointless. They don't understand peace...They understand one thing, and that's aggressive force."

“I don’t really see much of Islam being peaceful at all. Don’t come into this country, infiltrating this country with your terrorist activities and terrorist agendas and call it a ‘holy war.”

"You have the right to follow any path of religion you choose, as long as it does not violate other people's peace. Your association with those in your religion who have those terrorist activities, and your unwillingness to call them on the carpet for it?  No, you no longer have the right to practice that religion if it infringes on the peace and the tranquility of this nation and the people around you. That nullifies your constitutional right to practice your freedom of religion."

Based on his other Facebook posts, Mr. Whitley would also seem to have issues with gays (big surprise) and (gasp) Communists.

First spotted by the Bluestem Prairie blog, Mr. Whitley’s ravings garnered plenty of attention from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR-Minnesota executive director Lori Saroya weighed in: “It’s very disturbing to see a Republican Party leader engage in outright bigotry and hate. These broad-brush smears of the entire Muslim community remind us of similar smears against Catholics, Jews and others in the past.”

Sigh.

Seems a tad hypocritical of Mr. Whitley, wouldn’t agree?  I mean calling a group of people terrorists and then threatening to ‘frag’ them?  But then, something tells me that Mr. Whitley isn’t one for personal self-reflection or reason.

So, in light of his limited world view and lack of perception, let’s all raise our AK-47’s of enlightenment, as a means of saluting Wonderland Burlesque’s Turdscooter of the Week, this sadly narrow-minded, ignorant, and misinformed GOP official.

Mr. Whitley?  You can go 'frag' yourself!