The 'cancel culture' myth was always about censoring the center-to-left

[struggle4progress]

Matthew Sheffield and Adrian Daub
Mar 29, 2025

For decades, the American far-right has been screeching constantly that its activists and politicians are being censored by “cancel culture.” It’s nonsense, of course, because almost invariably everyone who supposed canceled ends up with a huge media following and a very profitable victim narrative ...

In the so-called marketplace of ideas, right-wing ideas lost decades ago. Among many other things, well-educated people know that race is a social construct, that transgender people have existed for centuries, and that America’s most-influential founders were not Christian nationalists. Reactionaries have failed to make their case, and this is the main reason they don’t get hired by universities. You can’t have a credible biology department if “creation science” is the mandated policy. Anthropologists pushing discredited “race science” are regarded as disturbed freaks, and rightfully so.

But instead of trying to come up with some better ideas, like they’d have to in an actual meritocracy, the American far right has decided to force them into the public square. This is what the cancel culture narrative is all about, establishing a false scenario to justify the gigantic censorship regime that the second Trump White House is establishing ...

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[JohnSJ]

1. It is bullshit, and bill Maher himself is one of the biggest hypocrites in that regard. He loves to call out liberals

as examples of cancel culture, but it is the jackass Maher who is the best example of cancel culture by effectively doing cancel culture himself to anyone who doesn’t agree with him.