Cancel Culture: How far will they go?

[Ret10Echo]

Because.... Yeah... Nobody

[JJ_BPK]

More Wokeness Cancel Culture

Sierra Club, New York Times Have Decided That Camping And Parks Are Racist
By Jonathan S. Tobin
July 29, 2020

Digging up comments by Sierra Club founder John Muir set off Black Lives Matter-inspired outrage intended to depict national treasures as intrinsically racist.

Want to get away from the civil strife that has torn the country apart as both the coronavirus pandemic and violent riots have turned America’s cities and cable news into a battlefield? If so, perhaps you think the ideal getaway might be a national park. There you can commune with nature and admire some of the most beautiful places in the world free from politics. Nope.

The idea that national parks could be a refuge from cancel culture’s obsession with rooting out what woke social media mobs and left-wing ideologues have labeled “white privilege” went out the window last week after the Sierra Club disavowed its founder, John Muir. In an essay portentously titled “Pulling Down Our Monuments” and published on its website, Michael Brune, the group’s executive director, effectively canceled Muir more than a century after his death in 1914.

The reason was that Muir, who was born in Scotland in 1838, had in some of his writings made disparaging remarks about Native Americans and African Americans. The offensive statements are contained in his voluminous published writing and correspondence.

While even a recent Sierra Club study of his embarrassing comments admitted his views were progressive for their time, he also used words that were hurtful even in context. He referred in his correspondence to surviving members of tribes that were largely exterminated by white settlers in California as “savages” — a term he also sometimes used to describe whites — as well as “dirty,” “garrulous as jays,” “superstitious,” “deadly,” “lazy,” and “wife stealing.” He also called blacks “dirty,” described their appearance in stereotypical terms, and claimed their “diseased and incurable dirt … [was] evidently chronic and hereditary.”

Although his sometimes-contemptuous attitudes toward both groups are indefensible, they were also not part of advocacy for discriminatory policies nor the main point of any cause he pursued. They merely document that Muir was a person of his time, however wrong.

In addition, Muir’s views of Native Americans evolved, and he ultimately regarded with sympathy their plight as a dispossessed and marginalized population, even if he was always more interested in the land than in the people who used to live there until they were driven out in the generation before he arrived in California.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/29...ks-are-racist/

[sfshooter]

Originally Posted by Box

I think we need to go after Goldilocks and the Three Bears next.
Submitted for your review and comment:

Box, your killing me man!!! Love your style!

You need to write the BOOK OF BOX! It would be a number one best seller in this "woke" culture we exist in now

[rsdengler]

Originally Posted by Ret10Echo

Because.... Yeah... Nobody

I dig cool little Monkey's smoking a cig.....

[bblhead672]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

Quandry(S)

1)do we Cancel all German and Japanese products(including vehicles) because their leaders were prosecuted as war criminals for the murder of millions?


There is nobody on this Earth that is free from Woke Canceling

Let's not forget good old American corporation IBM who was neck deep with supplying technology to Nazi Germany.

[Gypsy]

Originally Posted by sfshooter

You need to write the BOOK OF BOX! It would be a number one best seller in this "woke" culture we exist in now

Has a ring to it!

[Razor]

Originally Posted by sfshooter

...the BOOK OF BOX!

Didn't they ban those from the PX some years ago?

[Box]

Originally Posted by Razor

Didn't they ban those from the PX some years ago?

No... Only the magazines of Box - the good ones.

[glebo]

Ya know, the wife and I started watching the series "The Man in the High Castle" striking similarities in that series and to what is going on now...

Almost as if the anarchists, BLM, ANTIFA have followed the script.. or pretty closely anyway...

[Old Dog New Trick]

Originally Posted by glebo

Ya know, the wife and I started watching the series "The Man in the High Castle" striking similarities in that series and to what is going on now...

Almost as if the anarchists, BLM, ANTIFA have followed the script.. or pretty closely anyway...

Yes but, when you get to season three you will see why it took them so long to rewrite the show to fit a new narrative.

[glebo]

I see, we're on season 4 now. Wasn't expecting some of the stuff.. But destroying things of that past, and nat'l treasures is also akin to ISIS...

They must read the same playbook...

[Old Dog New Trick]

Maybe I was thinking Season 4, can’t remember. Let’s just say it was the last season and everyone went home happy, well almost.

[Old Dog New Trick]

Time to revive this...

I woke up this morning to the news that Gina Carano was fired from Lucasfilms and Disney (The Mandalorian) because of her conservative tweets and views. Even if many of them are factually correct.

Many on the left rejoiced with this news while some said they will boycott Disney and cancel their subscription to Disney Plus Entertainment. (No I did not subscribe and now I won’t want to.)

It’s a shame and would be even more hypocritical since I believe Walt Disney himself was a leaning white nationalist and the entire theme park was predicated on white supremacist ideology to include Mickey Mouse.

Oh well, saves me more money and time.

[Sohei]

I read that as well. She will either have to offer her sincerest apologies for being "misspoken" or risk being unemployed by standing her ground. It will be interesting to see which she opts for since her great "travesty" will spread over the Internet like wildfire.

[Ret10Echo]

Apparently there are going to be a series of posthumous impeachment trials kicked off by the sitting Kongress.