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Trying to remember which Democratic president threatened broadcast licenses if someone wasn't fired... I can't place it.
Seriously now, I'm not USAian and even I know cancel culture goes back a long way in US history.
McCarthyism, HUAC, prejudice against youth culture and anything deviating from Christian norms, the Satanic Panic, homophobia and the AIDS crisis, redlining, book banning and moral panics over "groomers," Dixie Chicks, Sinead O'Connor, Kaepernick, boycotting Nike, boycotting Starbucks, boycotting Target, boycotting NASCAR, boycotting Gillette, boycotting Keurig, boycotting Bud Light, boycotting Disney. The right was cancelling long before the term "cancel culture" even existed.
Most of us remember the libertarian approach to speech in the 90s, the inappropriate jokes and all. And how it all got overturned
There is no "we", it's you and your opinion- own it.
> i m surprised this isn't taken as common knowledge, but yes everything about cancellation culture started from leftist causes. I struggle to remember someone being cancelled for expressing "too progressive" ideas until recently.
We get it.
Not everybody is a UNIX coder of the 70s with clear memories of the 1960s and your limited world view is based on your own personal near term recollection and, seemingly, no actual reading of US history.
You might be interested to learn about the House Un-American Activities Committee and their attitude wrt cancelling progressives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_C...
Making berating comments doesn't really serve anything and reflects bad on the commenter.
The more interesting question is why did we go from a relatively laisez-faire attitude of the 90s, which was earned after decades of social activism, to a close-minded culture that fires people for being mildly annoying.
I can't tell if you are confused, or are intentionally trying to confuse others.
The issue is that the current president can't take criticism, and is ignorant of the Constitution. And a lot of people seem hot to excuse his unconstitutional actions.
People were being fired. People were being shamed at scale. People’s careers were being ruined. Some committed suicide. All because of some shit they said online. It just shouldn’t be that easy.
You perhaps aren't familiar with our first amendment? What part of the world are you from?
Just because a million people hate you for something you said does not mean you should be punished as they see fit. Any punishment should be limited to social status, not employment or other societal benefits. Otherwise, why not just deny healthcare to racists, sexists, or people not aligned with the ruling party’s interests?
You may not be able to practice discrimination legally, but in your heart and mind you can be whatever you want.
When you take that away from people, they no longer feel free, and they will retaliate like a caged animal.
Whereas groups of people can get together and decide to boycott whatever they want, government officials cannot direct such activities. That's the right to free association and expression protected by the first amendment. The only way you're ever going to get rid of "cancel culture" is if you remove that right. If people can't decide for themselves what they want to buy, and if they can't decide to associate with similarly minded people, there is no first amendment right to free speech.
And as bad as everyone says cancel culture is, no one has proposed a model where free speech is maintained yet cancel culture is forbidden. Most models proposed to are explicitly anti-free speech. The rest are just fascist, which incidentally that's the plan this administration is going with. So congrats, maybe you got rid of cancel culture, but you took down the first amendment with it.