2. The lazy term "cancel culture" doesn't quite get at the dynamic. This isn't a case of large mobs getting people erased but rather a longstanding pattern where in the name of a notional balance, centrist institutions appease the far right. Goes back to at least McCarthyism.
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3. The partial silencing of Trump and QAnon is making this dynamic worse. To prove "balance," social media & centrist institutions are now silencing left and liberal speech, including stuff that is completely innocuous.
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4. Centrist institutions are congenitally incapable of seeing asymmetrical polarization, so they respond to right-wing outrage with a reflexive swat on "both sides" -- as if there was equality of sides. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-censorship-times-wolfe/ …
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It's not actually clear that Wolfe was fired because she was singled out by a pro Trump online mob, read Jesse Singal on this, there is likely something we don't know. But other examples you cited are decent evidence for your argument.
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So Will Wilkinson was fired from the Niskanen Center because of the Trumpists?pic.twitter.com/wJKXsGQKnb
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The right-wing went all
over a tweet about VP Pence.
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Authoritarian/fascist implementation has already occurred to every level of government and nearly every government organization. And media. NYT has been co-opted. This effort is highly organized, well funded and being played for the long game.
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Americans on right wing media: “Call people names and you shall feel strong.”
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They aren't cowed. They are racist hateful people.
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