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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 8, 2025

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The right knows exactly how miserable it is to be cancelled and to have their livelihoods threatened over political beliefs: my evidence is having lived through the past ten years. They don't care anymore. All of the moral principled arguments lost all purchase and force on them. Being bombarded like Palestinians by threats and catty remarks by psuedocommunists has inured them to the calls of hypocrisy.

All of the lost jobs, job opportunities, scholarships, and social damage isn't going to avenge itself: this is the new normal. We live in the postliberal Friend-Enemy Schmittian power dynamic and the left is responsible for it.

"We live in the postliberal Friend-Enemy Schmittian power dynamic and the left is responsible for it."

I'd put the blame more on the development of media and particularly the social media panopticon. But let's assume it's just the left that started it (and not that it hasn't just been a persistent back and forth from both illiberal leftists and rightists for a very long time), for how long does the right get to cancel back before it's the right responsible for it?

Until the war is won, so forever. It is a meme war, a total meme war. As long as teachers decide it's a great idea to show the Charlie Kirk shooting to 11 year olds and tell them he was a bad man who deserved it, the cancelations will continue. If anything, Trump should declare antifa a terrorist organization and bear the full might of the government machine on the various NGOs and super pacs funding the woke mind cancer.

As long as teachers decide it's a great idea to show the Charlie Kirk shooting to 11 year olds and tell them he was a bad man who deserved it

I'm almost afraid to ask... but is there a documented case of this?

To be fair, Toronto, rather than US, but pretty strong evidence.

Yeah, I probably shouldn't have asked. That the teacher thought this was a good idea is testimony to the capture of the institutions.

The left never stopped.

But let's assume it's just the left that started it (and not that it hasn't just been a persistent back and forth from both illiberal leftists and rightists for a very long time), for how long does the right get to cancel back before it's the right responsible for it?

Depends. Do we start counting from Donglegate or Brendan Eich about a year later? I guess "a little longer than a decade" works.

yea that'll work out fine. we can just trust them stop. the best time to stop is always NOW.

Oh no, they won't stop. But that's the minimum time before you get to start blaming them for it.

the best time to stop is always NOW.

That is... often very much not the case in war, and I and many others have been arguing for years now that this is in fact a war. A cold one last week, maybe a hot one next year.

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