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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 22, 2025

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Why do you think this situation is materially different than what the woke Left did back in 2017-2020? Nobody's been able to give me a compelling response to why we should accept what the Right is doing now, but that's different from what the Left was denounced for. It's all either:

  1. Reasonably limited, like "we should only go after people who are inciting violence", but that's not representative of what's actually happened (i.e. the Right certainly hasn't limited itself to just that); or
  2. It accurately describes the Right's actions, but is excessively broad, like "it's fair to go after anyone saying mean things about Kirk".

Also, I'm not sure what your point about violence is. That was a toy example I included to show that it's obviously better to be hypocritical than dead, not that I thought any self defense is hypocritical as a rule. Most people understand self defense is a necessary evil, so we accept it ahead of time, and accept it (to some degree at least) when others do it, so it's not hypocrisy.

Reasonably limited, like "we should only go after people who are inciting violence", but that's not representative of what's actually happened (i.e. the Right certainly hasn't limited itself to just that); or

Make it one or two (but not 20 or 30) steps broader, and that's pretty much it. I haven't seen the Right get anyone fired for cracking their knuckles, or because a relative used a slur, or they donated to a currently-unfavored cause that Obama supported at the time (maybe flip that one), or they wore a shirt with anime characters on it.

I don't think I stuck to your four-year window, but yes, it is different. I'm not arguing against Right-wing cancel culture because it's mild enough to ignore, unlike the Left-wing version.

Nobody's been able to give me a compelling response to why we should accept what the Right is doing now

So exactly what explanations have you heard that you don't find compelling?

It's all either:

  1. Reasonably limited, like "we should only go after people who are inciting violence", but that's not representative of what's actually happened (i.e. the Right certainly hasn't limited itself to just that); or
  2. It accurately describes the Right's actions, but is excessively broad, like "it's fair to go after anyone saying mean things about Kirk".

You are being excessively literal. Can you link to some people actually saying such things, instead of paraphrasing them?

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