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The right is simply good at PR. People forget that they invented cancel culture. Dixie Chicks anyone?

> The right is simply good at PR

One of the defining characteristics of the right is not placing any value on logical consistency. Being a hypocrite will not lose you any support with them.

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

They protect their own above all else. Is their own a POS? Oh well.

Not always. See what they said about the old guard such as mccain.

The right (and by that I specifically mean fascists) will use words in whatever way maximizes their power over others.

Hypocrisy is a show of power.

Sorry, I thought you were going to end your line with "McCarthyism".

Freedom Fries, Satanic Panic, Save our Children, Red Scare. If anything the liberals being able to cancel people is a historical anomaly, and now we're seeing things return to their natural order.

I had totally forgotten about that!

Video games all through the 90s as well.

Satanic Panic before that.

> People forget that they invented cancel culture. Dixie Chicks anyone?

You can go a lot further back than that. McCarthyism was a powerful cancel culture and vestiges of that still manifest today. Linguistically, the weird and inexplicable way anything to the left of fascism in America can be described as "communism" if someone is in the mood to be pejorative is a vestige of McCarthy, or something even further back from the First Red Scare, I think.

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