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by Goronmon 914 days ago
Maybe what they are feeling is a deep unconscious unease at the realisation that the cancellation culture the leftists have bought to life is bad karma. What goes around comes around.

This is definitely one of the more interesting fantasies the right enjoys portraying, for sure. Part of standard playbook at this point it's becoming hard to treat these type of comments as organic.

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The fantasy is that “cancel culture” is a thing unique to the left, or that it’s somehow new.

Bud Light got cancelled for giving one can of beer to one trans influencer for a social media spot.

I’m old enough to remember the Dixie Chicks getting cancelled for opposing Bush and the Iraq War.

I’m old enough to remember leftists defending the spirit of freedom of speech, with respect to the Dixie chicks
They were rightly cancelled, but for the wrong reason. Really, the cancellation should have been for lauding his incredibly misogynistic and offensive portrayal of women.