Category: Cancelled!
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Fake News?
Something doesn’t quite smell right about this story. It’s a gay bar, dumping Bud Light over them, abandoning the Dylan Mulvaney campaign. The stereotype of gay bar patrons is that they have impeccable taste. We are talking Bud Light. Anyone else seeing the problem here? Of course, the lesson to companies is, or should be,…
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Uncancellation
Last week, after a brief campaign by the DFL‘s noise machine too spin remarks by GOP lieutenant governor candidate Matt Birk out of context, to local restaurants – the nook and Shamrocks, both owned by the same company – removed the “Matt Birk“ burger from their menus. The petition reportedly got 176 signatures. And the…
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Rage For The Machine
The woke mob told the First Avenue “Jump!“.First Avenue replied “off what“?” First Avenue buckled under the attack from the Woke Mob late in the day yesterday, and punted on the Dave Chapelle show: The media coverage is, as always, shameful: “The community” Well, one community: Looks like a raggedy little line of 24 White,…
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Musk In The Wind
An Inigo Montoya moment: Democracy. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means. Of course, what frightens Max Boot is having anything he says face a challenge. Content moderation is especially cool if it means you don’t have to face any discontent. Boot’s preferred usage is a…
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Rules Of The Game
Most readers of this feature knew the truth in 2020 — Hunter Biden, the uber-prodigal son of the now Leader of the Free World, abandoned a laptop computer at a repair shop in Delaware. The laptop was filled to the brim with embarrassing and yes, incriminating evidence of financial malfeasance and videotaped debauchery. It was…
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The Unthinkable
Big Left is slowly eating itself – a pattern all leftist institutions, from Mao’s Politburo to Pacifica News eventually recap. Most lately: yesterday, I heard a couple of feminist congruence-checkers masquerading as NPR correspondents on the drearily, pointlessly breezy “It’s Been a Minute” fulminating about this next bit: filmmarker Jane Campion has been raked over…
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I’m Not Cancel Culture, You’re Cancel Culture
A friend of the blog emails: I am in no way in favor of banning books or burning books. I am not in favor of censoring something for others. If I do not want to read something, I simply don’t. This tweet really got my thinking about fascism and the Nazis who burned books. .…
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Woke, Broke
Penzeys spices – The “high end“ spice store thst tried to get Scott Walker recalled, and which went completely unhinged after the Trump election – held a “Republicans are Racist“ sale on MLK day. And is shocked to notice their sales plummeted: Well, they’ve lost 3 percent of their “Voice of Cooking” email subscribers over…
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Best Practices
I have a hunch one of these is going to be mandatory for everyone in public life sooner than later… …and I should really get cracking on mine.
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I Heard It On The NARN
Re my interview with Angus Fox – here’s the introductory essay to the series, Part 2, and Part 3. The series, as noted in the interview, is open-ended. And, back by popular demand, today’s music setlist!
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But Whatever You Do…
…don’t you dare claim that major media have become stenographers for Big Left. Perish the thought.
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Be Less Stupid
Dana Loesch, by way of exposing the grift of the “Anti-Racism” industry, published a whistle-blower account of the Coca Cola session with Robin DeAngelo a few weeks back – the one that told Cokers to, well… “Be less white” – a term that is couldn’t be a purer example of Berg’s 21st Law of Rhetorical…
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But Don’t You Dare Call Big Left Horrifyingly Reductionist
SCENE: Mitch BERG is at a local roastery, picking out some bourgeois coffee. Avery LIBRELLE walks in. BERG can’t quite react fast enough. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, f…for crying out loud, it’s been a long time, Avery. What’s… LIBRELLE: (Interrupting) You say Democrats have trouble with critical thinking… BERG: (picking a medium roast, ordering a…
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Civil Society And Its Abusers
One of domestic abusers most insidious forms of brainwashing is telling, and eventually convincing, their partners that the abuse is partly, or all, their own fault. “You provoked me”. “You shouldn’t have said __“. “You’re as much to blame as me. Maybe more”. We’ll come back to that. Years ago, I was at an event…
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The New McCarthyites
I really can’t boycott “Hollywood”. because given the fact that Tinseltown can’t seem to get its heart into doing much of anything but comic book movies, and I just can not bring myself to go to a comic book movie, I mean, why bother? So I’ve never seen any of Disney’s various Star Wars spinoff…
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Western Horror Stories
This site is an endless – so far – catalog of people, frequently but far from always in academia – catalog of “cancelees”. And reading the blurbs is a little like reading log entries from a ship that is slowly sinking, but the captain just doesn’t know it yet.
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“But Mitch – Why Does Berg’s Twentieth Law Exist?”
I’ll cop to it – I’ve been pretty cynical about “hate crimes” lately. Let’s stipulate in advance – they do happen. But Berg’s 20th Law – “All incidents of ‘hate speech’ not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise”…
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Items For The “Cancel” Agenda
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking out of the local Korean joint with a container of Galbi. As he’s committing to going out the door, MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats. SILBERMAN: Mister Berg. BERG: Er, hi, Ms. Silberman. What’s new? SILBERMAN: Not much time…
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Open Letter To Midtown Global Market
To: Midtown Global MarketFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Cancel This In response to the “revelation” that one of the Holy Land Deli’s employees – the daughter of the owner, himself an immigrant and inspirational story – had some “racist” social media in her past (as in, years ago, while a teenger) you canceled the Holy…