Cancel Culture (Examples)

[iota]

ill be frank because i'm not good at beating around the bushes anyway

something needs to be done,

this is beyond what daddy was complaining about late 70's of "Reverse discrimination"

this is outright AND blatant discrimination

to be at the effect of it and be silent

is something likely to be regretted

and just enables the condition to persist

[rgray222]

When this thread was started some time ago the purpose was to document some examples of the cancel culture. Of course, the cancel culture has been around for a long time but it really started to hit its stride in 2019/2020 and it shows no signs of slowing down in 2021 and the years beyond. Sadly the examples that are shown in this thread are not the outliers they are pretty much everyday run mill examples of what happens when the cancel culture becomes a weapon of politics. The example shown below is certainly part of the cancel culture but with a twist. The people using the cancel culture as a weapon (mainstream media, politicians mostly from the left but not confined to the left) want us to believe things that are untrue and will never be true. See for yourself.

Winsome Sears - White Supremacist
Winsome Sears is the new Lt. Governor from Virginia. She has been labelled a white supremacist by most of the mainstream media. One example (video): https://www.foxnews.com/media/libera...te-supremacist

Dr Rachel Levine - First Woman Admiral in the USA
Born Richard Leland Levine in 1957 he started to identify himself as a woman in the 2000's says he transition over in 2011. Richard Levine now goes by the name Dr Rachel Levine and has been appointed a Four-Star Admiral.

The vast majority of people will not have a problem with Rachel Levine's appointment but what will never be true is that Rachel Levine will never be the first female four-star admiral in the USA. Rachel Levine will certainly hold the tittle of "first transgender four star admiral".

“I am humbled to serve as the first female four-star officer of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and first openly transgender four-star officer across any of the 8 uniformed services,” Levine said in a statement.
Dr, Rachel Levine
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnsta...h=70d0a3045b8b

Gov Elect Youngkin and Lt Gov Elect Winsome Sears


Biden and Dr Rachel Levine

[Mike]

Yes, the left is accusing newly elected Lt. Gov of Virginia, Winsome Sears, of being a "white supremacist". For those that don't know, Sears is black. They did the same thing to Larry Elder, a black conservative who recently ran in the recall election in California. The Washington Post ran an article accusing him of being "the black face of white supremacy."

Faced with growing numbers of outspoken/conservative black political leaders and intellectuals, the left has resorted to their bizarre linguistic trickery in a futile attempt to make their ideology seem coherent. The trick is this: being black isn't what counts anymore, they say...what counts is being "politically black". They are perfectly willing to cast black folks who disagree with them to the wolves. And most of them are absolutely monstered in the most vile ways, with tactics involving reputation destruction and vicious name calling ("coconut", "race traitor", "uncle Tom", etc)

It's typical authoritarian behavior. You are not allowed to disagree. They are incapable of imagining a world where people who disagree with them aren't "white supremacists". And Joy Reed is calling the Republicans "dangerous"? Whew. She's a piece of work (..and also a blatant homophobe btw, judging by her own blog posts from several years ago which she conveniently claims were the result of "hacking")

The Republican drubbing of Democrats in these recent elections is a very positive sign. People are waking up to what so called "wokeness" really is (even James Carville, legendary democratic strategist, blamed the Democrats' loss on "stupid wokeness"). People now know what Critical Race Theory is. Parents are showing up at schoolboard meetings and demanding changes. And it was their votes that turned the tide...

The strategy of the Dems now is threefold (and weirdly contradictory):

1) some are just pretending CRT is not being taught in schools
2) some are pretending it doesn't even exist (exact words of some msnbc lunatic: "critical race theory does not exist"
3) those that admit it exists and is being taught are claiming it merely teaches the history of racism in America,..and those who want it shut down, they say, are racists who don't want the "true history" of America taught in schools. The Republicans are being "paranoid" they say. Textbook gaslighting there.

Racism, racism, racism. They're like programmed robots who are only capable of uttering one word. I watched all the lefty channels last night to see how they'd spin their defeat, and they all said the same thing: racism. Actually what they kept saying was "dog whistle racism". That's how they describe parents' aversion to CRT, which was the major issue in the election. The parents weren't against neo segregation, notions of group guilt, repackaged racism aimed directly at whites, and all the rest. NOOOO, that couldn't possibly be it. All those parents voted the way they did because they're racist. Every last one of them, apparently

So, the lunacy marches on but it's getting exposed for what it truly is ...and the people are resisting.

[iota]

is it ok to post a victory that was gained in combating this manufactured "cancel culture"?

if it doesn't belong here? i apologize and maybe a mod can move it to Breaking News instead

i put it here, because the impact that this phenomenon has had? has been REAL and consequences destructive

but ALWAYS will someone arise against injustice instead of obliging their agenda in acquiescence

and i have AWESOME news!! someone DID ~~~~ and they WON!!!! yay!!!

"Jury Awards $10 Million to
White Male Executive in Discrimination Case"

The New York Times Reports:

"By Michael Levenson


"A federal jury in North Carolina has awarded $10 million in damages to a former health care executive who argued that he was fired because he is a white man and his employer was trying to diversify, court records show.

The employer, Novant Health, which oversees 15 hospitals and hundreds of outpatient centers and clinics, argued that the former executive, David Duvall, had been fired because his superiors “had very little confidence” in him as a leader — not because of his race and sex.

But a federal jury found on Tuesday that Mr. Duvall’s race and sex had been motivating factors in his termination and that Novant Health had failed to prove that it would have fired him regardless of those factors.

The jury awarded Mr. Duvall $10 million in punitive damages, a sum that is likely to be reduced by the trial judge, according to Sachin S. Pandya, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He said that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act caps punitive damages at $300,000 for employers with more than 500 employees.

Mr. Duvall’s lawyer, S. Luke Largess, said on Friday that his client also has a discrimination claim under North Carolina law in which the $300,000 cap does not apply. He said there will be a hearing in 30 days on the amount of back pay and front pay to be awarded.

The verdict came nearly two years after Mr. Duvall filed a federal lawsuit against Novant Health, contending that he had been fired to achieve racial and gender diversity, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

“We are pleased that the jury agreed with Mr. Duvall that his race and gender were unlawful factors in his termination — that he was fired solely to make room for more diverse leaders at Novant Health,” Mr. Largess said in a statement.

He said that the jury had included six women and two men and that six were white, one was Hispanic and the forewoman was Black.

Mr. Duvall’s lawsuit was “decidedly not a statement against diversity and inclusion programs,” Mr. Largess said.

“The lawsuit was only about the need to run such programs lawfully,” he said. “We believe the punitive damages award was a strong message that an employer cannot just fire employees based on their race or gender to create opportunities to achieve diversity targets. That is plainly unlawful and very harmful, and that is what the jury denounced here.”

Novant Health said that it disagreed with the verdict.

“We are extremely disappointed with the verdict, as we believe it is not supported by the evidence presented at trial, which includes our reason for Mr. Duvall’s termination,” Novant Health said in a statement. “We will pursue all legal options, including appeal, over the next several weeks and months.”

Novant Health, a nonprofit organization with more than 35,000 employees, said the verdict would have no effect on its efforts to diversify its work force.

“Novant Health is one of thousands of organizations to put in place robust diversity and inclusion programs, which we believe can coexist alongside strong nondiscriminatory policies that extend to all races and genders, including white men,” the organization said. “It’s important for all current and future team members to know that this verdict will not change Novant Health’s steadfast commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity for all.”

In his lawsuit, Mr. Duvall said that he had a successful career in marketing and public relations when Novant Health hired him as a senior vice president of marketing and communications on Aug. 5, 2013.

On July 30, 2018, Novant Health fired him without warning and ordered him off the premises immediately, the lawsuit states.

Mr. Duvall said that his superior had told him that his termination had “nothing to do” with his work performance and that he had “done everything asked of him and more,” according to the lawsuit. Mr. Duvall’s job performance “had been very highly rated, both internally and externally,” the lawsuit states.


In 2015, Novant Health signed onto a commitment by health care systems nationwide to address health inequities, which spawned a commitment to diversity and inclusion, Mr. Duvall said in court documents.

By 2018, that commitment “had turned into avowed, even boastful, ‘strategic imperative’ to rely on racial and gender targets to reshape Novant Health’s work force and leadership to reflect the community it served,” according to the documents.

“As a direct result,” Mr. Duvall was fired and replaced by a white woman and a Black woman, and other white men were also dismissed without warning and replaced by women or members of minority groups, his court documents said.

Novant Health argued that Mr. Duvall’s claims were “premised on complete speculation wholly lacking in evidence.”

As a highly compensated senior vice president, Mr. Duvall was expected to “perform exceptionally, not just demonstrate good or adequate performance,” Novant Health said in court documents.

Mr. Duvall “fulfilled what was asked of him,” according to Novant Health, but “demonstrated over time that he was not exceptional or a successor” to his superior.

For example, Novant Health said that Mr. Duvall was “unable to speak publicly” in front of the board of directors, which prompted the chief executive “to question his command.”

Mr. Duvall’s superior “did not see him as an enterprise leader” who was willing to collaborate with others, Novant Health said. And Mr. Duvall missed a critical meeting to discuss the “patient experience” with other executives, Novant Health said.

“From a talent development, strategic planning, and succession planning perspective, I knew we could improve on talent in David’s role,” Mr. Duvall’s superior wrote in court papers.

article source: here


another article with really great video with attorney here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...fired-n1282605

the article above has a really great video and interview with the attorney who won the settlement and i highly recommend watching it

below i will post a short video from MSM that came out within a very short period of the announcement. they got an attorney to do a short recap with explanation of the factors involved in a suit such as this and what needs to be proved.

perhaps because of the shortness of time? they did not know what she would say and the "spin" that typically accompanies these announcements? was refreshingly absent!

another yay!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W364MUG09uQ

[Bill Ryan]

Many familiar with Monty Python will know the British comedian John Cleese. (Far funnier than Python was the universally loved 12-episode series, Fawlty Towers, one of the the most revered pieces of classic comedy the world has seen... no exaggeration.)

John Cleese is also a formidable intellect, highly regarded for his intelligence by everyone who's ever known him. And now he's canceled himself.

• https://thetimes.co.uk/article/john-...ixon-fxt5g76c0

John Cleese cancels himself in support of Hitler-mimicking historian Andrew Graham-Dixon

John Cleese has blacklisted himself from speaking to students at Cambridge University after the union’s president banned a speaker for impersonating Hitler as the comedian did in Fawlty Towers and Monty Python.

Cleese, an alumnus of the university, said that he had been due to speak at the union but announced this morning that he had pulled out. “I am blacklisting myself before someone else does,” he wrote on Twitter.

[happyuk]

I couldn't resist it...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

[iota]

Posted by happyuk (here)
I couldn't resist it...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

OMG!! that is absolutely hilarious!!!

would it be ok to repost this on the VIDEO memes and popular culture thread?

i couldn't stop laughing



and @ Bill?

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

John Cleese cancels himself in support of Hitler-mimicking historian Andrew Graham-Dixon

John Cleese has blacklisted himself from speaking to students at Cambridge University after the union’s president banned a speaker for impersonating Hitler as the comedian did in Fawlty Towers and Monty Python.

Cleese, an alumnus of the university, said that he had been due to speak at the union but announced this morning that he had pulled out. “I am blacklisting myself before someone else does,” he wrote on Twitter.

was he being fascetious? smart move? or "what the heck is he thinking?" move?

sorry to ask about what is probably super obvious ...

(i think my brain might, at long last, be fried on sensory overload )

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by iota (here)

was he being facetious? smart move? or "what the heck is he thinking?" move?

Well, he's a highly intelligent man. He's now 82, but as sharp and witty as ever. And he's 100% totally against any kind of 'woke' cancel culture.

That sketch (which is just a few minutes of a full 30 minute Fawlty Towers episode) is famous, and every Brit over the age of about 12 knows it off by heart. It was aired in 1975 — 46 years ago! — but is still regarded as one of the funniest things that was ever on the BBC, comedy genius of the highest order.

John Cleese, who wrote it himself, was interviewed about it countless times. The backdrop, not shown in that brief clip, is that his character had concussion, which is how come he had a bandage on his head. And as a result of the head injury, he was unable to suppress saying out loud everything he was thinking.

Of course, it's not an insult to any Germans anywhere. (Most Germans think it's hilarious. Do read the YouTube comments! ) It's a parody about the character he plays (Basil Fawlty), who was always a manic, out of control, extreme, straight-faced figure with anger management problems and an inability to handle almost any situation in the small hotel which he owned (Fawlty Towers).

But the whole episode, which was one of the greatest timeless classics of British comedy, was itself canceled by the BBC in 2020. So John Cleese, when declining his invitation to speak at Cambridge University (where he got his degree), was making a strong point to protest the humorless, authoritarian 'woke' culture. He knew full-well that it'd be widely reported in the British media — which it was.

[iota]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

So John Cleese, when declining his invitation to speak at Cambridge University (where he got his degree), was making a strong point to protest the humorless, authoritarian 'woke' culture. He knew full-well that it'd be widely reported in the British media — which it was.

bless you Bill Ryan!

now i can sleep! hahaha!

it IS a classic! i'd seen it when i was younger!
what a comedic genius!

the world could use some of that right now!

thank you!

[happyuk]

Posted by iota (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

So John Cleese, when declining his invitation to speak at Cambridge University (where he got his degree), was making a strong point to protest the humorless, authoritarian 'woke' culture. He knew full-well that it'd be widely reported in the British media — which it was.

bless you Bill Ryan!

now i can sleep! hahaha!

it IS a classic! i'd seen it when i was younger!
what a comedic genius!

the world could use some of that right now!

thank you!

Indeed it is. The only remaining soft spot I have for the BBC is largely because of the cracking comedy I grew up with: Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Porridge, Eric & Ernie, among a long list.

But that’s the problem. It’s come an almighty long way downhill ever since.

'Comedy' like 'King Gary' ? Kin’ hell. Most BBC dramas and comedies these days are dire or drearily "woke". Ditto their political coverage. The Corporation has become a bloated, biased behemoth, sustained by a licence fee which effectively promotes failure. Few people I know under 35 want to watch the BBC, let alone pay for it.

There are glimmers of hope, but you won't find it on the BBC. Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule on ITV is quite a good 'un: just a bit of silly-half-hour, slapstick nonsense that doesn't take itself seriously.

[Ewan]

Wonder how many of these iconic sports people from yesteryear would get cancelled today?
(Could be cross-posted to 'When Men were Men (Masculine) and Women were Feminine' perhaps).

Some very funny stuff on this show back in the day.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=x0MODssX8EQ

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUs4TFBFfw

I yearn for the old days, seriously.

Edit: For non-Brits, this is very British.

Bike is/was slang for a lesbian.
Dog is/was a rough looking woman.
Bollocks is/was testicles.

Anymore just ask...

Double Edit:

Sorry, this is offtopic. Thread title asks for examples. Delete it after you finish chuckling.

[rgray222]

The outrageous censorship of Nadia Murad

When the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) initially cancelled an event with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad, the reason given was that such an event could foster Islamophobia.

Murad was invited to speak at a book club founded by Tanya Lee, where teen girls from various secondary schools hear from female authors.

But TDSB superintendent Helen Fisher expressed concern over Murad’s book The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, telling book club organizer that students should not participate in an event with the author scheduled for February.

At the age of 14, Nadia Murad was kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis and taken into sex slavery.

In the words of Rex Murphy of the National Post: “From that pit of hell, [Nadia] incredibly found the personal resources to escape, champion the cause of brutalized young women everywhere, and ascend to the heights of the world’s high honour, the Nobel Prize.”

For many of us who have followed the mass murder of the Yazidi people of Iraq and have marvelled at the courage of Murad, the TDSB decision came as a shock. It reeked of ignorance and subservience to an Islamist attitude that has infiltrated too many institutions of Canada, especially urban schools where cafeterias have been turned into prayer halls, with gender apartheid on full display.

Shocked by the exchange with Helen Fisher, Tanya Lee says she then sent her an email containing detailed information on the Islamic organization, coming from the BBC and CNN.

“This is what the Islamic State means,” she wrote to the superintendent: “It is a terrorist organization. It has nothing to do with ordinary Muslims. The Toronto school board should be aware of the difference.”

Source and to read the full article: https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...of-nadia-murad

[Gemma13]

Cross posting.

Posted by Delight (here)
Fauci is the father of Cancel Culture

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G2mV25h2qMo

[Ewan]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
I never thought that it would be possible for the cancel culture to swing its broad sword at mathematics. It seems the cancel culture could not pass up the opportunity for a 2 for 1, dumbing down society while at the same time screaming systemic racism.



Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics'

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.

Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways "white supremacy culture" allegedly "infiltrates math classrooms." Those include "the focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations.

"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the document for the "Equitable Math" toolkit reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-ed...hite-supremacy

Just noticed one of my kids watching the following on Youtube, I was quite delighted when he asked me why the world was so crazy..

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw

If only it were as simple as the end of the short movie..

Sadly, despite encouraging converations with complete strangers in my day to day travels, they inevitabley end up mentioning being vaxxed and having just had the booster, or just going for their booster, and it becomes apparent that these people are not going to stand up. They WILL follow the herd and join in the 3 am kicking in of the door, the stones being thrown will be thrown by them also.

And "*doublespeak" increasingly being noticed (by me) in everyday situations. I drive through roadworks eveytime I head out of north England heading south. A sign proclaims the the 'narrow lanes (are) for you safety'. In what bizzare universe does narrowing the lanes increasing the proximity of other vehicles equate to a safer driving environment?

*
See George Orwell ~ 'Newspeak' or 'Doublethink'.

[Kryztian]

[Frankie Pancakes]

Maybe this belongs here?

Read this passage from a memoir of being young in 1920s Germany, and compare the 2020s:


“A generation of young Germans,” [Sebastian] Haffner writes, “had become accustomed to having the entire content of their lives delivered gratis, so to speak, by the public sphere.” The stability that followed Gustav Stresemann’s becoming chancellor in 1923 marked “the return of political liberty,” which, Haffner writes, Germans regarded “not as a gift, but as a deprivation.” Haffner goes on: “The great danger of life in Germany has always been emptiness and boredom. The menace of monotony hangs, as it has always hung, over the great plains of northern and eastern Germany, with their colorless towns and their all too industrious, efficient, and conscientious business and organizations. With it comes a horror vacui and the yearning for ‘salvation’: through alcohol, through superstition, or, best of all, through a vast, overpowering, cheap mass intoxication.”

From Charles Tayler’s review of Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler (Salon 2002). The review has this tag line: “A newly discovered memoir by a German classified as ‘Aryan’ describes the insidious early spread of Nazism and how hard it was to resist.”

(In 2021, it’s tempting to substitute “Wokism” and see how that tag line reads now. Insidious spread, indeed.)

[iota]

i thought this was pretty exceptional by today's standards ...

the TRUTH on MSM ... spilling on the Cancel Culture and their role in it

excerpt:

"..When you are not able to say outloud and in public

that there are differences betweeen men and women

the world has gone mad ..

When we are not allowed to acknowlege that rioting is rioting and it is bad

and that Silence is not violence but Violence is Violence, the world has gone mad .."

so refreshing to hear the truth spoken aloud ...

[Bill Ryan]

From The Libertarian Institute, yesterday:

https://libertarianinstitute.org/art...-say-in-canada

Eighteen ‘Offensive’ Words You Can’t Say in Canada

Think that the U.S. is the wokiest nation on the planet? Think again. Canada is coming up fast, and with its latest initiative, appears to be on the inside track.

What has the Great White (pardon me for using this word) North done to warrant this characterization? They have come up with eighteen words that are offensive; you say them only at your peril, at least in the frozen country to the north of the U.S.

What are these words? They are as follows:

• ghetto
• sell someone down the river
• blackmail
• brainstorm
• savage
• gypped
• pow wow
• tribe
• spooky
• black sheep
• blind spot
• blindsided
• first world problem
• spirit animal
• tone deaf
• lame
• grandfathered in
• crippled.

(The interesting article continues, with much comment)

[Gemma13]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
From The Libertarian Institute, yesterday:

https://libertarianinstitute.org/art...-say-in-canada

Eighteen ‘Offensive’ Words You Can’t Say in Canada

Think that the U.S. is the wokiest nation on the planet? Think again. Canada is coming up fast, and with its latest initiative, appears to be on the inside track.

What has the Great White (pardon me for using this word) North done to warrant this characterization? They have come up with eighteen words that are offensive; you say them only at your peril, at least in the frozen country to the north of the U.S.

What are these words? They are as follows:

• ghetto
• sell someone down the river
• blackmail
• brainstorm
• savage
• gypped
• pow wow
• tribe
• spooky
• black sheep
• blind spot
• blindsided
• first world problem
• spirit animal
• tone deaf
• lame
• grandfathered in
• crippled.

(The interesting article continues, with much comment)

Started looking into this... then stopped after reading this, from 2008! Didn't want to ruin the rest of my morning.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...pileptics.html

Council bans 'brainstorming' and replaces the term with 'thought showers'... for fear of offending epileptics

By Steve Doughty for the Daily Mail21:30 AEDT 20 Jun 2008

Brainstorming has undoubtedly generated some bolts of brilliance and flashes of inspiration over the years.

But in genteel Tunbridge Wells, the council decided it might lead to the traditionally Disgusted residents of the town becoming Offended as well.

So now the expression brainstorming has been banned. And in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as 'thought showers'.

Brainstorming, first coined in the 1890s, was used by psychiatrists to refer to severe nervous attacks. And although since the 1940s it has meant a meeting to produce new ideas, councillors are concerned it may prove offensive to epileptics.

The National Society for Epilepsy said this was unlikely. It surveyed members three years ago to ask whether they found the phrase offensive.

Spokesman Amanda Cleaver said: 'The answer was a resounding No. It certainly wasn't deemed offensive at all. People thought it was a great word to describe the coming together and discussion of ideas.'

But diversity officers at Tunbridge Wells borough council are standing firm. Personnel chief Val Green said: 'We take equality and diversity issues very seriously. It is important to us not to offend people and we are sorry if through trying to avoid this, we have indeed caused offence to the very people we were trying not to offend.

'If the epilepsy association finds the term perfectly acceptable, then we welcome this clarification. If however, the term does in fact offend even a small minority, we would encourage people to get in touch with us.'

Thought shower has already replaced brainstorming elsewhere - including at Redbridge Education Business Partnership in East London, the Deanes School in Essex, and the Church of England's Diocese of Southwark.

But critics remained unenthusiastic. Richard Colwill, of the mental health charity Sane, said. 'Using brainstorming in the context of a council meeting I wouldn't imagine would cause offence.'

Of the thought shower, he added: 'I don't think it will catch on.'

[Gemma13]

Think I will savagely brainstorm with my spooky mates about spirit animals before we are blindsided and crippled with lame @#$%@#$%!