Why do people pretend that what they call "cancel culture" is new and hasn't been pushed by lots of groups for decades? The religious right used it all the time after all.
The religious right says, "We don't like what Disney/Home Depot/Google/etc. are doing, and so we're telling all of our friends to boycott them if they also hold those values".
"Cancel culture" says, "We don't like what you, Joe Schmoe, are doing. As a result, we're going to tell Disney/Amazon/Google/etc. to boycott you and make you unemployable."
> The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations. On May 6, Colorado radio station KKCS suspended two DJs for playing their music. WTDR-FM in Talladega, Alabama, dropped the Dixie Chicks after more than 250 listeners called on a single day to complain about Maines's comments.
That's not to mention the baying for blood that happened in the early 2000s when anyone came out against the Iraq War[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_controversy
[2] http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2...
The FRC once even called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A in 2019 https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2019/11/29/famil...
They do this sort of thing often.
I'm not sure about the accuracy of this, but it is attempting to use past bad behavior to justify current bad behavior.
You can't change the past. You can do something about what's happening right now. A lot of rational people want to cancel "cancel culture" right now because of the harm it inflicts on society.
The whole reason the term “cancel culture” was coined was to give right-wing rants about the troubling new trend of “political correctness” a veneer of novelty; it's literally the same complaints from the Right (about things the Right does just as much, but based on different ideological orthodoxy) that have been being made since the 1980s, but with a new label swapped in to the old complaints, because complaining about a new trend for 4 decades starts to show that, whatever the basis of your complaint is, it's not a disturbing new trend.