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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    He reminds me of Chris Rock as a straight talker.
    he does. There are a few honest libs

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I do not accept "things.com" as a legitimate and reputable website.

    My point stands: I have no knowlege of any friends, relatives, peers who have ever been fired from a job for supposedly being insufficiently PC.
    fine remain in denial. you also said it's just about PC words -it's not

    Here are just some of the people who have been fired or have lost work for expressing their views.
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/0...ture-was-real/

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    Some examples of “political leaders”:
    Donald Trump
    Occasional Cortex
    Ilhan Omar
    Marjorie Taylor Greene

    Lebron James is no political leader. Do we dismiss his rhetoric also?
    But common to everyone of them, they speak to their audience, outside of that audience they either tailor what they say, or assume the responsibity for it. What they do for a living often has no bearing on it and/or in fact could help validate what they have to say. Case in point, one reason why what LeBron has to say carries weight is because he takes responsibility for what he says. And he believes it. That’s the difference between LeBron and Jordan. Tiger and Kaepernick.
    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    more worthless Spam. and tyhis is NOT about Trump. I'm seriously considering thread banning you.
    the topic is the pervasive cancel culture you idiot
    This is about cancel culture. That includes anyone who was involved in it. Pay attention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    Case in point, one reason why what LeBron has to say carries weight is because he takes responsibility for what he says. And he believes it. That’s the difference between LeBron and Jordan. Tiger and Kaepernick.
    Then you can say the same for Maher. ABC canceled him for saying what he believes. So he took it to HBO.

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    Is it fascism if people stopped supporting someone?



    Anatta seems to think so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rune View Post
    Just as retarded as when he accuses lefties of being fascists. Total ignorance.
    Just words they toss around after walking past a mirror and seeing their own reflection words like racists. How in the Hell does a trump supporter assume it can call anyone else a racist?

    Got another word they shouldn’t use ... dumb. Get real.
    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    On October 4, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Despite quickly deleting the tweet, mainland China's communist government and its media subsidiaries condemned Morey for tweeting in support of Hong Kong and the NBA for half-defending Morey's right to speak his mind.

    Chinese media company Tencent, which is heavily subsidized by the Chinese government and is paying more than a billion dollars to broadcast NBA games, responded with a punitive blackout spree: The company initially pledged to not broadcast Rockets games this season, then it refused to broadcast a preseason basketball game the Lakers and Brooklyn Nets played in China.
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    When reporters finally got to LeBron on camera and asked him about Morey's tweet before Monday's preseason home game against the Golden State Warriors, King James threw Morey under the bus:

    "We all talk about this freedom of speech—yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative, that can happen, um, when you're not thinking about others, or you're only thinking about yourself.
    So, I don't believe—I don't want to get into a word or a sentence feud with Daryl, with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke.
    And so many people could have been harmed, not only financially but physically, emotionally, spiritually.

    So just be careful what we tweet, what we say, and what we do, even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too."

    https://reason.com/2019/10/15/lebron...ng-kong-tweet/

    Lebron is trash. He talks about people getting hurt in the pocketbook -how about the Hong Kong protestors
    ( Or Jack Ma being disappeared to speculations that he is either arrested or placed under house arrest.)

    Lebron support CCP censorship ( and malign behaviors) while criticizing Morley for his political support
    for Hong Kong protestors.
    Over money
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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    Then you can say the same for Maher. ABC canceled him for saying what he believes. So he took it to HBO.
    Then yes, you say that.
    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    Just words they toss around after walking past a mirror and seeing their own reflection words like racists. How in the Hell does a trump supporter assume it can call anyone else a racist?

    Got another word they shouldn’t use ... dumb. Get real.
    I dont just 'toss words around' at all.

    RUNE is hung up on me labeling the Left as fascists. Canceling people or banning them from platforms
    over over political speech is totalitarianism - with fascist tactics.. call it WTF you want to or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    I dont just 'toss words around' at all.

    RUNE is hung up on me labeling the Left as fascists. Canceling people or banning them from platforms
    over over political speech is totalitarianism - with fascist tactics.. call it WTF you want to or not.
    Again, how is stopping supporting someone fascism?

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    do you need examples? plenty more where these came from!

    10 Biggest Celebrity 'Cancellations' of 2020 (So Far)

    https://www.thethings.com/cancelled-celebrities-2020/
    10 Biggest Celebrity 'Cancellations' of 2020 (So Far)

    1 Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen DeGeneres has been the biggest cancelation of the year until now.
    2 Sebastian Stan. Sebastian Stan was canceled because of his girlfriend. ...
    3 Demi Lovato. ...
    4 J.K.Rowling. ...
    5 Vanessa Hudgens. ...
    6 Doja Cat. ...
    7 Jimmy Fallon. ...
    8 Lea Michele. ...
    I found what you are responding to interesting. The statement that because a person doesn't know anyone its happened too means its either 1) not true or 2) they associate with a higher level of people...

    The softball response here are people like George Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR, Diane Feinstein etc. who got cancelled from SF schools. Now, you won't get an argument from me that many politicians are not high level people. But some of the named above did some amazing things. (And Barack Obama's name was floated as a possible new school name but there was pushback against that because he will likely be cancelled in the future based on some of his actions)

    One area where cancel culture gets discussed a lot is on college campuses. Maybe this has never been the actual case, but in theory Universities are places where ideas are exchanged, discussed and debated. It's a place where, in theory, students are to be challenged and grow. But there is a palpable fear/concern among numerous University professors about the fear of being cancelled based on speaking in any way against the acceptable CRT/anti-racism movement. Now its possible many University professors are simply low character people. But for the sake of discussion lets say that isn't the case. The question then is is the ideology/movement of CRT and anti-racism more important than academic freedom and being able to speak freely and exchange ideas in the classroom? If one is all in on cancel culture then the former takes priority.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    I dont just 'toss words around' at all.

    RUNE is hung up on me labeling the Left as fascists. Canceling people or banning them from platforms
    over over political speech is totalitarianism - with fascist tactics.. call it WTF you want to or not.
    You do know you are exactly describing Trump's tactics right, shit fer brains?

    You couldn't be more oblivious you fucking idiot.
    It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    On October 4, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Despite quickly* deleting the tweet, mainland China's communist government and its media subsidiaries condemned Morey for tweeting in support of Hong Kong and the NBA for half-defending Morey's right to speak his mind.

    Chinese media company Tencent, which is heavily subsidized by the Chinese government and is paying more than a billion dollars to broadcast NBA games, responded with a punitive blackout spree: The company initially pledged to not broadcast Rockets games this season, then it refused to broadcast a preseason basketball game the Lakers and Brooklyn Nets played in China.
    ~~
    When reporters finally got to LeBron on camera and asked him about Morey's tweet before Monday's preseason home game against the Golden State Warriors, King James threw Morey under the bus:

    "We all talk about this freedom of speech—yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative, that can happen, um, when you're not thinking about others, or you're only thinking about yourself.
    So, I don't believe—I don't want to get into a word or a sentence feud with Daryl, with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke.
    And so many people could have been harmed, not only financially but physically, emotionally, spiritually.

    So just be careful what we tweet, what we say, and what we do, even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too."

    https://reason.com/2019/10/15/lebron...ng-kong-tweet/

    Lebron is trash. He talks about people getting hurt in the pocketbook -how about the Hong Kong protestors
    ( Or Jack Ma being disappeared to speculations that he is either arrested or placed under house arrest.)

    Lebron support CCP censorship ( and malign behaviors) while criticizing Morley for his political support
    for Hong Kong protestors.
    Over money
    If you believe LeBron is trash, then cancel him, guaranteed that he doesn’t care nor do I. You’re not part of his audience.
    Simple.
    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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