Cancel Culture Tag

San Francisco Renaming Abraham Lincoln School Because Black and Native Lives Didn’t Matter to Him

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 16, 2020 19 Comments

The San Francisco Unified School District targeted 44 schools for possible name changes back in October. The list included Abraham Lincoln. Dianne Feinstein, Herbert Hoover, and others. The school district voted this week to rename Abraham Lincoln school due to his comments about black people and "the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to [Native Americans]."

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Key Biden Transition Team Positions Go To Facebook and Google Execs

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 12, 2020 29 Comments

Throughout the Obama-Biden reign and especially as it came to a close, Obama administration officials flooded into Silicon Valley, taking top jobs at Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and other Big Tech entities.  Now Biden is tapping the Obama admin-Silicon Valley revolving door for top spots in his administration.

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Carnegie Mellon Students Demand Removal of Former Trump Official Richard Grenell

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 10, 2020 7 Comments

"Mr. Grenell has damaged, and continues to damage, our reputation, our code of ethics, our community, and critical democratic institutions."...

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Student Cancel Mob Comes For Harvard Law Prof. Adrian Vermeule Over Tweets Mocking Leftists

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2020 61 Comments

This story of cancel culture would be laughable were it not for the fact that it is so serious. It involves an attempt by four Harvard Law School student groups to interfere in the employment of, and damage the career of, Professor Adrian Vermeule.

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McGill University Students Want Prof Stripped of Emeritus Status for Criticizing Social Justice, BLM, Etc.

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 05, 2020 15 Comments

Philip Carl Salzman is a retired Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at McGill University in Canada. He has become the target of a cancel culture mob for the crime of criticizing social justice, rape culture, Black Lives Matter, and other aspects of the academic left which are considered beyond reproach. Students want Salzman stripped of his emeritus status and are demanding a review of the university's policy on academic freedom.

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Cancel Mob Attacks U Chicago Geophysicist Dorian Abbot For Questioning Diversity Hiring Dogma

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2020 56 Comments

"Cancel culture" is a plague that has infected academia and campuses for a long time, and has moved from campus to the general culture. But it has been particularly prominent in the news in 2020 over issues of racial politics, particularly the Black Lives Matter Movement and Critical Race Theory (sometimes called "antiracist") indoctrination.

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Penguin Random House Canada Staff Want Jordan Peterson’s New Book Cancelled

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 24, 2020 67 Comments

Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson is set to release a new book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, in march of 2021, but the announcement of his latest work set the publishing company ablaze.

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Petition at Harvard to Bar Trump Admin Members From Teaching or Speaking at the School

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 19, 2020 32 Comments

A petition making the rounds at Harvard seeks to prevent members of the Trump administration from doing pretty much anything at the school. For an institution that's supposedly dedicated to diversity and inclusion, they have a funny way of showing it.

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Then the deplatformers came for Dan Bongino

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2020 90 Comments

We are quickly moving towards two internet universes, one controlled by liberal and leftist tech giants, the other controlled by upstart conservative services providing a refuge for deplatformed, demonetized, and throttled conservatives.

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Virginia Wesleyan U. Dean Who Criticized Biden Voters on Facebook Resigns

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 18, 2020 4 Comments

"Virginia Wesleyan University announced the resignation Monday in a statement on its website"...

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Cracker Barrel Apologizes After Patron Snaps Photo of “Noose” Hanging From Ceiling

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 17, 2020 79 Comments

Can we just enjoy sweet tea and corn bread in peace without people looking for racism hidden in the bread basket, or is that too much to ask? Cracker Barrel recently apologized after a patron posted a photo of what appeared to be a noose-like knot hanging from the ceiling of a Connecticut location.

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Prepare for the Great Decoupling – Deplatforming moves downstream to WordPress.com and Mailchimp

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 16, 2020 70 Comments

In the past day there have been two very disturbing developments in internet deplatforming.

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U. Miami Law Prof Daniel Ravicher says threatened with termination after pro-Trump tweets

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 13, 2020 37 Comments

Daniel Ravicher is a star on the University of Miami Law School faculty. A full time lecturer, he currently is appointed under a 3-year term ending in June 2022.

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CNN’s Jake Tapper Makes Not So Thinly Veiled Threat About Not Accepting a Joe Biden Victory

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 10, 2020 50 Comments

First, we had threats of a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to publicly shame Trump supporters. Then we had promises of blacklists. Now Jake Tapper of CNN is openly saying that refusing to accept a Biden win could potentially be used against you professionally.

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Claims That U. Toronto Succumbed To Zionists In Denying Human Rights Position To Valentina Azarova Fall Flat

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on November 08, 2020 5 Comments

When asserted "human rights scholar" (and anti-Israel polemicist) Valentina Azarova was denied a position leading the prestigious International Human Rights Program (IHRP) at the University of Toronto, media and anti-Zionists alike painted a picture of Zionist Cancel Culture at work.

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University of Miami Law Professor Under Fire From Students Over Support for Trump

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 08, 2020 24 Comments

Cancel culture is far too prevalent in higher education, particularly as it pertains to support for President Trump. At the University of Miami, a law professor named Daniel Ravicher is coming under fire for tweets he wrote on election night and since.

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Coffee Shop Leaves Campus of Boise State U. After Students Complain About Owner Supporting Police

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 06, 2020 4 Comments

"I believe that they should have never been brought to campus and if it can be reversed it should be."...

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‘Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage’ in Portland Takes Aim at Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, and Historical Society

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 13, 2020 36 Comments

To the shock of no one, the “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage" in Portland, OR, took a violent and chaotic turn. The rioters targeted statues of President Teddy Roosevelt and...President Abe Lincoln. Oh, they also damaged the Oregon Historical Society building and Portland State University.

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