Category: cancel culture

The anti-Barbie backlash is even bigger and dumber than I expected

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date July 21, 2023
62 Comments on The anti-Barbie backlash is even bigger and dumber than I expected

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A week ago, I wrote a post about the nascent anti-Barbie movie crusade, and I noted that it seemed oddly muted. Well, what a difference a week makes: with the movie actually out this weekend, the anti-Barbie forces have turned up the volume, denouncing the movie as “woke” feminazi garbage that pushes a not-very-secret LGBTQ agenda.

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Montana anti-drag law used to shut down talk by trans speaker

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date June 1, 2023
42 Comments on Montana anti-drag law used to shut down talk by trans speaker

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The Butte Public Library has canceled a talk on the history of LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit people in Montana, citing a new anti-drag law with language so (deliberately?) broad and vague that it could easily be applied to trans people like the scheduled speaker.

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Graham Norton driven off Twitter after saying we should talk to trans people, not celebrities, about trans issues

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date October 17, 2022
30 Comments on Graham Norton driven off Twitter after saying we should talk to trans people, not celebrities, about trans issues

So Graham Norton’s Twitter account has disappeared. Norton, the popular UK talk show host was last seen offering some seemingly uncontroversial opinions on trans issues that somehow did not meet the approval of Harry Potter mega-author and trans antagonist J.K. Rowling.

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Scott Adams implies Dilbert was “cancelled” in 77 papers for taking on “woke” corporations. But the papers also dumped Blondie, Mr. Boffo, The Family Circus, and Ziggy

Yesterday, Scott Adams the Dilbert Guy brought us some truly tragic news:

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Alleged “Free Speech Union” wants to ban Drag Queen Story Hour, calling it a “trojan horse for radical gender theory”

Drag Queen coming for your children! Oh, wait, it’s just a pantomime dame. False alarm!

The UK’s badly misnamed “Free Speech Union” wants drag queens to be forbidden from reading children’s books to children in libraries and schools. In a recent post on LinkedIn, of all places, the group warns that drag queens are “trojan horses” for “radical gender theory,” which they somehow infect young children with while reading them “Little Bunny Foo Foo.”

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Right-wing writers rush to defend pro-racist anti-vaxxer Eric Clapton

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date October 11, 2021
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Eric Clapton still hasn’t properly apologized for an onstage racist rant

Eric Clapton is in the news again not for his guitar playing but for the financial and logistical support he’s given to a group of anti-vax/anti-lockdown musicians who travel about the UK singing songs about “poison” vaccines and the like.

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“No Time to Die” director acknowledges that James Bond was a rapist, and Reddit’s right-wing culture warriors cry foul

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We need to talk about James Bond. The debonair master spy and mass seducer of women is looking a lot less charming today than he did back in his glory days in the 1960s and 1970s. As any relatively conscious person who’s watched an older Bond film in recent years can tell you, Bond was less a seducer than a straight up rapist — tricking, blackmailing and sometimes physically forcing women to have sex with him.

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No, Jane Austen isn’t getting canceled for drinking a nice cup of tea

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 18, 2021
38 Comments on No, Jane Austen isn’t getting canceled for drinking a nice cup of tea

We return now to the ongoing culture war. This time we will take a close look at the alleged cancellation of Jane Austen for the crime of drinking tea.