Trump, Free Speech, & Right Wing Cancel Culture | A Critical Compass Discussion

For roughly the last decade, the political right has been fairly consistently united in its denunciation of "cancel culture" -- namely because they have been the consistent victim of it. In the hands of a coordinated media/institutional/big tech apparatus seemingly controlled by and for the left, one thing has been clear: Cancel culture is wrong. It unfairly punishes people in real life for off-hand or unserious remarks they make online, and otherwise minor transgressions can become artificially amplified through the viral potential of controversial online discourse.

Now, in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a situation emerges in which members of the political right find themselves in possession of what they view as justified cancellations. As members of the left publicly air their disappointment at the missed shot, the right's dilemma will be whether to accept the hypocrisy and execute those public shamings, or take a higher road and abide by the principals about which they felt so strongly when they were in the crosshairs of their political opponents.

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00:00 Intro
01:40 Underlying resentments coming out
04:28 I Am Leah's takes
09:03 The Employer vs. The Online Mob
13:31 A consequence of modern technology
15:02 How media rhetoric seeds and feeds the narrative
25:21 Josie The Redheaded Libertarian's take
27:22 Lauren Southern's take
32:19 Dave Smith's take
36:33 Thought experiment - Can it still be justified pragmatically?
42:51 Closing thoughts
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Sources used in video:

I Am Leah:
https://x.com/bossy_leah/status/1813625226829156779
https://x.com/bossy_leah/status/1813673622898188544

TRHL:
https://x.com/trhlofficial/status/1813628609669865714

Lauren Southern:
https://x.com/lauren_southern/status/1813975037223006300

Dave Smith (timestamped to clip shown in episode):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B21-GkamVYc&t=3307s

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Now, in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a situation emerges in which members of the political right find themselves in possession of what they view as justified cancellations. As members of the left publicly air their disappointment at the missed shot, the right's dilemma will be whether to accept the hypocrisy and execute those public shamings, or take a higher road and abide by the principals about which they felt so strongly when they were in the crosshairs of their political opponents.

_____
00:00 Intro
01:40 Underlying resentments coming out
04:28 I Am Leah's takes
09:03 The Employer vs. The Online Mob
13:31 A consequence of modern technology
15:02 How media rhetoric seeds and feeds the narrative
25:21 Josie The Redheaded Libertarian's take
27:22 Lauren Southern's take
32:19 Dave Smith's take
36:33 Thought experiment - Can it still be justified pragmatically?
42:51 Closing thoughts
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Sources used in video:

I Am Leah:
https://x.com/bossy_leah/status/1813625226829156779
https://x.com/bossy_leah/status/1813673622898188544

TRHL:
https://x.com/trhlofficial/status/1813628609669865714

Lauren Southern:
https://x.com/lauren_southern/status/1813975037223006300

Dave Smith (timestamped to clip shown in episode):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B21-GkamVYc&t=3307s

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