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Left-leaning stuff has been cancelled for ages. Try organizing a union in your workplace and see how quickly you'll get cancelled.

> Conservatives wouldn't complain if private companies were censoring and cancelling left-leaning content. They'd be out there defending private property rights and corporate freedom to act. It's transparently political.

I think you are confusing two very different things.

Criticizing Ebay for banning particular books, or AWS for dropping Parlor, or Twitter for banning various conservatives is not in contradiction with the libertarian/conservative idea that private entities should have the freedom to manage their business as they see fit.

Arguing for limited government oversight/power in these situations is orthogonal to criticizing the decisions on their own merits.

It's not in contradiction provided you don't encourage people to storm government buildings on the basis of private entities making their own choices. Which did happen.

What are you getting at? This comment seems to be unrelated to anything I'm saying even if I could understand it.

And for what it is worth the capitol rioters have been widely condemned by libertarians and conservatives.

Simply that Don Jr criticizing Dr Seuss or eBay for canning books is contradictory to lib/con views on free speech when his base uses such arguments to violently rebel against the government.

Bill Maher made this point, that Republicans have lately tried to appropriate "cancel culture" for being correctly rebuked, while what happens to people with his views is insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmXTUSP9a9M

Edit: Am I incorrect?

I always go into Maher from these recommendations thinking maybe I'll like his point here. Then halfway through I realize I've been duped again. In this case he laments republicans appropriating the term cancel culture, which he insists is a big deal for other reasons. Then at 4:15 he laughs while sarcastically saying "it's always okay when Trump's the nazi" and I'm like, oh okay. I remember how you like to draw people farther to the right while appearing as if you're anti-alt-right.

I think Maher is what the GP commenter would refer to as "transparently political" if he were on another side.

Yes of course the show is politically biased I just think his supposed thesis does not match the conclusions he draws. It is misleading that he presents himself as a centrist while laughing at those who would criticize the alt right.

Perhaps his thing is he just wants to criticize everyone and get away with it and if that's the case then I don't get what he stands for. Might be how I feel about conservatism in general which increasingly seems to be just anti-everything that would impose rules on the wealthy.

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