when the "Cancel Culture" starts cancelling their own

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Happens every time the fanatics take control:

"Consider the fate of Jodi Shaw, a feminist former administrator at Smith College. Shaw spoke up in defense of service workers who had been falsely accused of racism by one of Smith’s students. The college’s own internal investigation vindicated the workers, but Shaw was still marked for having spoken up. Now she is falsely typecast as a right-wing hero who ran afoul of cancel culture.

To be sure, this political Doppler effect has always been a favorite tactic of fanatical and intolerant groups seeking to stamp out dissent within their ranks. During the Salem witch trials, the devout Puritan minister George Burrows was hanged as a witch for daring to stand up to “his own side.” During the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, fanatical Communists who raised questions about Stalin’s motives were shot for being ‘reactionaries.’ In Franco’s Spain, fascist coup plotters were condemned for being communists, even though they had far more in common with their accusers than with communists. In the Ayatollah’s Iran, fanatical mullahs found themselves defenestrated on the charge of being spies for the CIA. In all of these cases, intolerant extremists sought to maintain ideological purity by accusing any allies who dared to speak up against them of belonging to the enemy camp."

Last Edited by MarPep on 04/20/2021 04:02 PM