Category: cancel culture

A Near Call: Whether the Left Will Implode or Triumph

Commentary Here’s a question that I do not know the answer to: “Is the Left on the Cusp of Permanent Triumph, Or Is It Committing Suicide?” That’s the title of an essay by Francis Menton at his blog Manhattan Contrarian. Menton points out that the sudden acceleration of “cancel culture” and social media “de-platforming” are only two…


Dancing With the Woke: It’s Time for Liberals to Change Partners

Commentary “Woke” is one of the presently accepted terms employed to celebrate the presumed superiority of the neo-Marxist “social justice warrior.” “Wokeness” is a particularly useful ideological brand for Western Marxists because it allows them to disassociate themselves from inconvenient historical labels such as Bolsheviks, Nazis, Fascists, and Maoists and confuse their opponents by adopting…


Dinesh D’Souza: My Experience With ‘Woke’ Corporations

Commentary The notification, when it arrived, seemed innocuous enough. It appeared, on first glance, to be an email notification of some change of status regarding my credit card, obtained many years ago through the Chase Bank. Normally, I don’t even read such notifications. Life is too short. But I happened to glance over this one,…


My Experience With ‘Woke’ Corporations

Commentary The notification, when it arrived, seemed innocuous enough. It appeared, on first glance, to be an email notification of some change of status regarding my credit card, obtained many years ago through the Chase Bank. Normally, I don’t even read such notifications. Life is too short. But I happened to glance over this one,…


Filmmakers: Cancel Culture Seeks to Erode Traditional Values and Imprison the Mind

Filmmakers Clarence Felder and Chris Weatherhead say that, as cancel culture broadens its scope, it’s not only having a chilling effect on people working in creative fields, but it seeks to imprison the mind more generally—to the detriment of society and civilization. “I think the idea is to wipe out our history, wipe out our traditions,…


Video: Cancel Culture’s Impact On Creativity—Interview With Clarence Felder and Chris Weatherhead

Cancel culture is broadening its targets to include just recently the Disney films “Peter Pan” and “Dumbo,” cartoon characters like Speedy Gonzales, and children’s authors like Dr. Seuss. To learn more about cancel culture and its impacts on Hollywood and creativity, we interviewed filmmakers Clarence Felder and Chris Weatherhead. These stories and more in this…


Sen. Tim Scott: Death Threats Against Democrat Senator Example of ‘Woke Folk’ on Rampage

In yet another rebuke of what he called “woke supremacy,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) denounced “the ‘tolerant’ left’s intolerance of dissent” by highlighting an example of a Democrat senator who voted against a federal minimum wake hike and, allegedly, subsequently received death threats. “That is woke supremacy. It is the ‘tolerant’ left’s intolerance for dissent….


How Cancel Culture is Changing California | Melissa Melendez

As cancel culture rises in California and across the nation, employees and students are facing backlash for their personal beliefs. My guest is Melissa Melendez. She is a state senator representing California’s 28th District. She discusses the need to protect individuals from social and professional discrimination and how cancel culture is permeating into the legislative…


Arkansas AG Proposes Bills Pushing Back Against ‘Cancel Culture’ at Schools

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who is seeking to become the next governor, has introduced a pair of bills aimed at promoting patriotism in public schools. The first proposed legislation is the Star-Spangled Banner Act, which requires public schools in Arkansas to play the Star-Spangled Banner before school-sanctioned sporting events. The second is the Moment…


Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Democrat-Led Effort to Expel Her ‘Will Fail’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday said that an attempt by some Democrats to expel her from Congress is “very foolish” because she has done “absolutely nothing wrong,” adding that the she believes the effort will ultimately fall through. About 70 House Democrats led by Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) signed a resolution last week…