Wandering Monk
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Well, if nothing else get politicians' attention, money certainly does.
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You mean like how Trump tried to cancel Biden's win??I spent the next few days thinking about what it means to be “canceled,” specifically how it’s causing people to live in shame and denial as a way of self-preservation — an effort to diminish their chances of being called out. And while I have my own views on white spiritual feminism, it appears to be too easy for most white women to disregard the suffering of people of color.
We live in an era where we expect “wokeness” from our peers, the cultural expectation to be socially aware, particularly in what we speak up against. If you aren’t “woke,” you’re at risk of being “cancelled,” or experience a certain level of “woke bashing.” Cancel culture has infiltrated the very fabric of our society, so much so that some people, like the woman who came up to me in Santa Cruz, are afraid to learn, engage, and speak up. You can’t read the news or flip through a gossip magazine without reading about a celebrity losing a TV show or brand partnership deal (effectively being “cancelled”) as a result of problematic behavior.
Cancel Culture: The Good, The Bad, & Its Impact on Social Change
You mean like how Trump tried to cancel Biden's win??
Democracy in action.Well, if nothing else get politicians' attention, money certainly does.
So in your world, politicians are entitled to donations? That seems to be the implication of what you're saying.I spent the next few days thinking about what it means to be “canceled,” specifically how it’s causing people to live in shame and denial as a way of self-preservation — an effort to diminish their chances of being called out. And while I have my own views on white spiritual feminism, it appears to be too easy for most white women to disregard the suffering of people of color.
We live in an era where we expect “wokeness” from our peers, the cultural expectation to be socially aware, particularly in what we speak up against. If you aren’t “woke,” you’re at risk of being “cancelled,” or experience a certain level of “woke bashing.” Cancel culture has infiltrated the very fabric of our society, so much so that some people, like the woman who came up to me in Santa Cruz, are afraid to learn, engage, and speak up. You can’t read the news or flip through a gossip magazine without reading about a celebrity losing a TV show or brand partnership deal (effectively being “cancelled”) as a result of problematic behavior.
Cancel Culture: The Good, The Bad, & Its Impact on Social Change
I spent the next few days thinking about what it means to be “canceled,” specifically how it’s causing people to live in shame and denial as a way of self-preservation — an effort to diminish their chances of being called out. And while I have my own views on white spiritual feminism, it appears to be too easy for most white women to disregard the suffering of people of color.
We live in an era where we expect “wokeness” from our peers, the cultural expectation to be socially aware, particularly in what we speak up against. If you aren’t “woke,” you’re at risk of being “cancelled,” or experience a certain level of “woke bashing.” Cancel culture has infiltrated the very fabric of our society, so much so that some people, like the woman who came up to me in Santa Cruz, are afraid to learn, engage, and speak up. You can’t read the news or flip through a gossip magazine without reading about a celebrity losing a TV show or brand partnership deal (effectively being “cancelled”) as a result of problematic behavior.
Cancel Culture: The Good, The Bad, & Its Impact on Social Change
So in your world, politicians are entitled to donations? That seems to be the implication of what you're saying.
So large American corporations have been infiltrated and seized by Social Justice Warriors after all. Up until reading your post, I had flippantly dismissed the rumors coming out of the dungeons below Newmax headquarters as one of the more bizarre of the myriad fantasies the right cooks up each day. Jeebers! Things have changed in America! Anything happens now. Anything!
Large corporations have realized the impact political associations can have on their bottom line.
Good! Now precisely how does that 'realization' translate into action?
For instance, does it mean large corporations are ramping up their public relations campaigns in order to strengthen the public's perception of their brands as patriots wedded to democratic norms and principles? You know, "Capitalism invariably leads to democracy", and other news bound to shock the Chinese Government back to reality. That's always been a good slogan to promote in America, you know. Probably always will be, given America's popular media outlets. So is PR the route the corporations will take to deal with the impact of their political associations on their bottom lines?
Please, Nakosis, say something I won't be likely to hear from Tucker Carlson someday.
Well, if nothing else get politicians' attention, money certainly does.
On Wednesday, Charles Schwab Corp. took it a step further than the rest, saying it would shut down its political action committee “in light of a divided political climate and an increase in attacks on those participating in the political process.”
I'll hazard a guess you didn't read the article.
Oh but I did. Only I don't just read things. I think them through and reach my own conclusions, too. Surely, you didn't just swallow the article whole?
It will be interesting if this principle ever gets applied consistently, because there's another right of all "persons" under US law that never gets discussed in this context:First the decision way back in the late 1800s that revealed the long hidden truth that corporations are -- in certain and more or less specific contexts -- 'persons' and thus are guaranteed in those contexts the same legal rights of other 'persons' -- that is, the persons who are capable of pumping blood to their brains, but who so seldom in the course of human history have ever done so.