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I know I should be used to it by now but I genuinely can't wrap my head around the fact that in the midst of a global pandemic some people are capable of being outraged by the estate of a Children's Author choosing, of their own volition, to no longer publish several of the Author's lesser known works.

A week after the same people were outraged that the Muppets were "canceled" when Disney has literally made it easier than ever to watch whatever episode of the Muppet Show you want.
 
Nik said:
I know I should be used to it by now but I genuinely can't wrap my head around the fact that in the midst of a global pandemic some people are capable of being outraged by the estate of a Children's Author choosing, of their own volition, to no longer publish several of the Author's lesser known works.

A week after the same people were outraged that the Muppets were "canceled" when Disney has literally made it easier than ever to watch whatever episode of the Muppet Show you want.
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It all seems to fit into this thread quite well. How do people have time for this crap? With raising my kids, working my job, and trying to stay sane in this current world, I really have little time to get outraged about anything.
 
Nik said:
I know I should be used to it by now but I genuinely can't wrap my head around the fact that in the midst of a global pandemic some people are capable of being outraged by the estate of a Children's Author choosing, of their own volition, to no longer publish several of the Author's lesser known works.

A week after the same people were outraged that the Muppets were "canceled" when Disney has literally made it easier than ever to watch whatever episode of the Muppet Show you want.
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I mean I absolutely understand why people get outraged over this stuff.  It's not their desired censorship.  These same idiots would be burning books or protesting sexual education.
 
L K said:
I mean I absolutely understand why people get outraged over this stuff.  It's not their desired censorship.  These same idiots would be burning books or protesting sexual education.
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Well yeah, they sure are quiet about stuff like this:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/us/top-challenged-books-2019-lgbtq-trnd/index.html said:
In 2019, at least 377 challenges were filed seeking to remove 566 books from libraries, schools and universities, according to a recent news release from the American Library Association (ALA). Out of the top 10 most challenged books of the year, eight of them contained LGBTQ content and characters.

This is the fourth year in a row that books containing lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender characters and story lines have been targeted by mainly patrons, parents, school boards, and political and religious groups.
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I like to think I'm pretty tapped into politics on the Left and I can say that virtually without exception the people I follow talk about things like raising the minimum wage, ending mass incarceration, protecting voting rights, climate change, UBI, health care...I really don't hear people talking about Dr. Seuss books.

People certainly talk about things like representation and whether media depicts certain groups fairly and, sure, even some critical reevaluation of older books and movies through a current lens but by and large the people who do that are not elected officials or people who claim to be talking about politics.

By and large all the talk about "Cancel culture" in a serious sense is done by people on the right hoping to use it as part of their never ending source of grievance to fuel whatever culture war they think will distract people from the fact that a higher minimum wage is really popular.
 
Pretty funny to me that the "Down with Cancel Culture" crowd is big on letting the Free Market decide
 
Nik said:
By and large all the talk about "Cancel culture" in a serious sense is done by people on the right hoping to use it as part of their never ending source of grievance to fuel whatever culture war they think will distract people from the fact that a higher minimum wage is really popular.
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It's 100% what it is. The rightwing in the U.S. is using any sort of change to the status quo as a distraction from all the actual issues where their position can't be defended.
 
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CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/Zeddary/status/1367314702607474689
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https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1367654147479265280

These people are just breathtakingly stupid.
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They are the same morons that donated to the election defense fund.
 
Despite growing up in the 70s, somehow I have no recollection of this:

https://twitter.com/chadmsaunders/status/1369858772886188038

https://twitter.com/chadmsaunders/status/1369862337146937346
 
Volcanic eruption just started in the last few hours in Iceland

https://twitter.com/vedurstofan/status/1373058512553656321
 
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1379404412771254273
I'm laughing now, but this is going to create a lot of Red Skull sympathizers/apologists isn't it
 
Considering where, how and by whom the majority of the big comic book characters were created it always astounds me when people are surprised that they might be "Left Wing".
 
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