It’s a ‘cancel culture’ world and we’re just living in it.
Over the past two years, it has become increasingly popular in our society to ‘cancel’ everyday activities, products, and phrases that have been deemed ‘offensive.’ From band names, to sports team names, to brand names, heck, even Mr. Potato Head fell victim to this contagious ideology.
Think about this though: everything that has been “cancelled” has been promoted by leftist politicians and celebrities who 98 percent of the time have no business saying what is and isn’t offensive to other groups of people. You don’t see Republicans vandalizing statues of historical figures who helped build our country from the ground up purely because they did something to make us mad. I’m not saying that Republicans have any business pinning what’s offensive to other demographics; most of the time they really don’t and neither do the liberals, but the point is that they flat out don’t do it.
It’s amazing how quickly attitudes have evolved in recent years: when the former Aunt Jemima products first came out in 1889, nobody made a peep about the relevancy of the name, nor did they for the next 131 years. All people cared about was the quality of the product. Same goes for Mr. Potato Head: hundreds of thousands of children have played with this famous Toy Story character for generations and, until 2020, nobody thought twice about having ‘Mr.’ in front of the name to be non-gender inclusive. Honestly, that’s what they made Mrs. Potato Head for.
Liberals are promoting a soft, brainwashed, spineless society where everyone must believe the same things. It’s not a bad thing for someone to be offended; in fact, I see it as a good thing. When you are offended, it means you are passionate about something. The old saying goes, “if you stand for nothing, you fall for anything.” The act of being offended only promotes debate and a spreading of new ideas and ways of thinking. The founding fathers understood this clause very well. That’s why the First Amendment was penned into the Constitution: to allow us to speak our ideas freely and fight for them.
Cancellers today are enforcing the mindset that if you don’t agree with something, you shame it. If you don’t agree with it, label it ‘racism’ or ‘bigotry’ or ‘unequal,’ and boom, problem solved and they expect the world to back them up on it. They have no desire to fight to prove their claims, and yet will force people to comply with them for fear dissenters will be labeled as well.
Don’t fall victim to the ‘cancel culture’ ideology, and don’t be afraid to fight against it. Fighting for something that goes against social norms doesn’t make you a racist, a bigot, or whatever liberals will try to dehumanize you with; it actually makes you stronger than them. It’s time to cancel ‘cancel culture.’