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This reminded me of all the Republican rallying cries against “cancel culture” around removing monuments to not-that-great men and people refusing to spend time on sites whose core values they disagreed with.
And now we’ve moved to these same people removing any reference to actual heroes of history if they happen to have not been successful white heterosexual men.
It really is a case of projection, isn’t it?
This reminded me of all the Republican rallying cries against “cancel culture” around removing monuments to not-that-great men and people refusing to spend time on sites whose core values they disagreed with.
And now we’ve moved to these same people removing any reference to actual heroes of history if they happen to have not been successful white heterosexual men.
Cancel culture indeed.
Projection, false equivalencies, strawmen, and plain old lying.