Cancel culture has gone too far

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Feb 13, 2021.

  1. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    @userque

    This demonstrates that all of you HATE DEMOCRACY and want to ABOLISH DEMOCARCY.
     
    #251     Mar 20, 2021
  2. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    What is that old saying about glass house?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...new-editor-used-N-word-decade-old-tweets.html

    Senior Teen Vogue staffer who supported ouster of new editor used N-word in tweets a decade ago... so will her woke colleagues now turn on her?
    • Christine Davitt wrote tweets in 2009 using the N-word in comments to a friend and other posts
    • The Teen Vogue senior social media manager criticized the hiring of Alexi McCammond as editor-in-chief
    • McCammond apologized for past racist tweets that included comments on the appearance of Asian features and derogatory stereotypes about Asians
    • The magazine and McCammond parted ways after the Atlanta shooting that killed eight people Tuesday, including six Asian Americans
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    #252     Mar 21, 2021
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    This Teen Vogue situation has been amusing. The staffer who demanded the ouster of the editor is guilty of much worse online behavior than the editor.
     
    #253     Mar 21, 2021
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  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #254     Mar 21, 2021
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

     
    #255     Mar 21, 2021
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  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Cancel culture eats its own...

    Teen Vogue staffers lock down Twitter accounts after opposing Alexi McCammond
    Christine Davitt, senior social media manager at Teen Vogue, used the N-word in tweets
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/teen-vogue-staffers-twitter-accounts-christine-davitt-mccammond
     
    #256     Mar 21, 2021

  7. Pretty pathetic. And I also think it is dicey legally to shame and drive a person out of their job for an act that they committed as a minor and where they have not displayed such action in their current workplace.

    The lefties are a confused bunch. They have succeeded and/or are trying to get states and the federal government to be banned from asking about prior criminal records in employment because it keeps minorities from getting on with their lives. Yet they have a boner for chasing down a successful black woman for some dumb-ass comment from when she was a minor.

    Just to be repetitive, I guess, I will say again I don't think it is legally clean either. Her employer may find out about their own actions having consequences too at some point. Yes, I get that she resigned, but from a hostile workplace.
     
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    #257     Mar 21, 2021
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  8. userque

    userque

    #258     Mar 21, 2021
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #259     Mar 21, 2021
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Let's read the paper that states nearly all the Dr. Seuss books are racist.... and sparked the movement to cancel Dr. Seuss.

    The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss's Children's Books
    February 2019
    https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=rdyl


    Let's take a look at their "Current Activism" section of the paper...


    Current Activism

    As critical race scholar-activists, we engaged stakeholders, including youth, families, and teachers from racially marginalized communities, to identify and document existing forms of resistance to Seuss' racist works.

    In 2017, we submitted this stakeholder feedback, and our study findings, to the National Education Association’s (NEA) Read Across America (RAA) Advisory Committee. RAA is the nation’s largest celebration of reading, with over 45 million annual participants. The NEA created the event in 1996 to take place on Dr. Seuss' birthday (March 2nd). For twenty years, the celebration was centered around Dr. Seuss' children’s books and the author himself. We advocated that they reconsider their twenty year focus on Seuss and use their platform to promote anti-racist diverse books by authors of color.

    The NEA committed to start transitioning away from Dr. Seuss, change RAA’s theme to “Celebrating a Nation of Diverse Readers,” and use the event as an opportunity to promote social justice. For the first time in twenty years, they removed all Dr. Seuss books from their annual Read Across America Resource Calendar, and featured all diverse books and authors at their RAA events in 2018.

    While the NEA has taken steps to rebrand RAA, it is teachers, school administrators, and parents who will be creating and enacting change in their classrooms, school districts, and homes. We hope this research will encourage continued dialogue on what it means to continue to teach and celebrate these works.

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    I thought "research papers" were suppose to research a subject not merely promote the activism the authors had already been pushing to eliminate Seuss books -- which they had already been driving for at least two years prior publishing the paper.
     
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    #260     Mar 21, 2021