Thoughts on a FB post

First, from someone on FB:

Roseanne Barr – Fired by ABC/Disney and her hit show Roseanne canceled overnight in 2018 after one tweet. Hundreds of cast and crew lost their jobs.

Gina Carano – Fired from The Mandalorian in 2021 for social media posts that didn’t fit the Left’s politics. Dropped by her agency too.

Megyn Kelly – Fired by NBC in 2018, her morning show canceled after comments about Halloween costumes.

Dave Chappelle – Netflix employees staged a walkout and demanded his comedy special be pulled for “transphobia.” The Left tried hard to cancel him.

Joe Rogan – The Left pressured Spotify to drop him, running coordinated campaigns and advertiser boycotts over COVID discussions.

Tucker Carlson – Taken off Fox News in 2023. Liberal activists bragged about advertiser pressure campaigns that helped force him out, costing thousands of downstream jobs.

Parler – Apple, Google, and Amazon colluded in 2021 to wipe the entire platform off the internet. Tens of thousands of small creators and businesses lost income overnight.

J.K. Rowling – Blacklisted from events, attacked by activists, and pressured out of projects for speaking her mind.

Mike Lindell – MyPillow pulled from major retailers, banned from Twitter, and targeted with advertiser boycotts.

Alex Jones – Simultaneously banned in 2018 by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify. Coordinated erasure celebrated as a model for censorship.

Patterns are clear:

Coordinated advertiser boycotts.

Public celebrations of people losing jobs and businesses.

Two sets of rules — the Left can lie (Russia hoax, Covington kids smear, Jussie Smollett, etc.) and laugh about it, but the Right gets destroyed.

Accountability only ever goes one way. The Left has spent the last decade perfecting cancel culture, destroying jobs, nuking shows, wiping platforms off the internet, and laughing while people’s lives were ruined. But sure… Jimmy Kimmel smugly lying about a political assassination? Totally fine.

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Comment: some of those people are horrible, some survived and learned and are still viable like Carlson and Chappell. Rowlings is fine. Alex Jones still hasn't paid the victims of a lawsuit he lost, so I think he's still operating outside of the law, no sympathy for him. Gina Carano wasn't rehired, that's not the same as canceling.

Seems like Kimmel is different. In order to get a corporate merger approved, the right wing FCC head used his influence to cancel a show on a network. Political jokes are not hate speech. Those loathsome people were cancelled for hate speech, and not because of political bias. That far right people are offended isn’t the same as rancid hate speech that most people don’t like.

Kimmel has the ratings, didn’t lose viewers. People just stopped buying the pillow guy's stuff because he was a liar. 

I really feel like domination from the left is different than dominating from the right. And I’m also humbled to think people see it differently. I cut off all the negative right stuff, and I was open to hearing this even though I disagree!

The president didn't say he'd get any of the people on that list. 

I mean Parler was part of the January 6th insurrection, so. I know the right lies about whether that was nothing at all or something, but you know despite political bias, there is also a truth, and a side that lies to counter these truths. We are not the same. 

I mean you can say it's my culture to say disgusting things, and have no consequences. What Kimmel said was political analysis that was true. I think the right doesn't get that feelings aren't truth.