{"id":80831,"date":"2022-02-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80831"},"modified":"2022-02-04T07:17:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:17:04","slug":"im-not-cancel-culture-youre-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80831","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Not Cancel Culture, You\u2019re Cancel Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>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&#8217;t. This tweet really got my thinking about fascism and the Nazis who burned books. <br \/>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1792\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2491.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2491.png 828w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2491-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2491-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2491-768x1662.png 768w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2491-710x1536.png 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Is <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/02\/harry-potter-themed-even-canceled-over-j-k-rowlings-transphobic-tweets\/\">this person tweeting sure<\/a> that it is the right wing side of the country burning Harry Potter books? Gosh, I am old enough to remember the never ending cancel culture of Liberals going after JK Rowling for questioning the transgender culture and the idea that a man can identify as a woman and be legitimately considered a woman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Harry Potter. Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry Finn. To Kill a Mockingbird. God and Man at Yale. <\/em>Jordan Peterson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Here\u2019s the difference:  On the right, the people doing the book burnings and the other authoritarian depravity\u2018s are almost invariably nobodies that you\u2019ve never heard of; school boards in Tennessee, county commissions in rural Louisiana.<\/p><p><\/p><p>On the left, it\u2019s the mainstream and leadership burning the books.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t. This tweet really got my thinking about fascism and the Nazis who burned books. . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,420,30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-cancelled","category-liberty","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80833,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80831\/revisions\/80833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}