{"id":3037,"date":"2020-07-09T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/the-cancel-cultures-icons-are-subject-to-cancellation\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:33:50","slug":"the-cancel-cultures-icons-are-subject-to-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/the-cancel-cultures-icons-are-subject-to-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cancel Culture&#8217;s Icons are Subject to Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patriotpost.us\/articles\/72014-the-cancel-culture-eats-its-own-2020-07-09?utm_campaign=debounce&amp;utm_content=read_more&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=patriotpost.us\">Arnold Ahlert<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cMake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/bolenreport.com\/saul-alinskys-12-rules-radicals\/\">Saul Alinsky<\/a>, <em>Rules for Radicals<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The American Left has embraced a cancel culture whereby those who evince even the slightest deviation from moral perfection, no matter how long ago it occurred, is grounds for turning ordinary Americans into pariahs \u2014 and obliterating the historical contributions of prominent ones. That this moral perfection is defined by a generation of progressives with contempt for American history and culture, with no remorse for <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2018\/07\/03\/fact-check-60-million-abortions\/\">60 million abortions<\/a>, and with anarchy, looting, arson, and <a href=\"https:\/\/patriotpost.us\/articles\/71938-a-little-girls-death-in-atlanta-2020-07-06\">murder<\/a> framed as \u201cpeaceful protests,\u201d is beyond arrogant \u2014 even more so when it\u2019s applied to historical figures who lived in wholly different times. What about progressive icons? Shouldn\u2019t the same deficiencies precipitate the same cancellations?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Ahlert: \u201cMake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.\u201d \u2014Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals The American Left has embraced a cancel culture whereby those who evince even the slightest deviation from moral perfection, no matter how long ago it occurred, is grounds for turning ordinary Americans into pariahs \u2014 and obliterating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/the-cancel-cultures-icons-are-subject-to-cancellation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cancel Culture&#8217;s Icons are Subject to Cancellation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}