Hays Code is cancel culture.
That’s what cancel culture looks like: you can’t write, read, or discuss <insert a group of marginalized people and their experiences> or you’ll never get published, your voice is never heard, even if you get published, your books will be removed and banned.
When speech from “out-groups” is limited and silenced, you call it “state law.”
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The same applies to your interpretation of the cancel culture.
Cancel culture is when Dixie Chicks criticized Bush’s war effort and was promptly blacklisted by every country music station. It took them over a decade and a name change to come back.
This is the moment I’m reminded of the Wilhoit’s Law:
During the Atlmark incident in 1940, the Brit war criminals violated Norwegian neutrality. Hitler could then justify invading Norway. Have the Brits ever apologized for violating Norwegian neutrality?
Cancel culture is the national archive preemptively removed some of the “darker history” of America (such as the civil rights movement or Japanese internment camps) in one of their most recent exhibitions to preemptively appease the new administration. → National Archives Museum Under Fire | Artnet News
On top of that, editors started to caution writers to tone down the LGBTQ+ content if they wanted to get traditionally published. They frame it as “pragmatism,” as in “I’m not here to argue right or wrong. I’m here to help you get published. Do you want to get traditionally published? Then don’t write queer characters.”
Cancel culture is the “Parental Rights in Education Act” and “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act (yes, that’s a real law being passed in Florida in 2022) that left school libraries with empty bookshelves because every book has to be “evaluated” so the LGBTQ+ content and actual history of United States won’t “traumatize” our children.
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Have you heard of the Hays Code - Wikipedia?
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Cancel culture is “Moms for Liberty” waging a war against LGBTQ+ inclusive books.
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Cancel culture isn’t “people block me online because I say gay people should not get married.” Cancel culture isn’t “Ciri is the next Witcher? The gaming industry gets woke! Men are canceled in video games!” Cancel culture isn’t comedians got some social backlash for saying racist things, not when they turn around and get another Netflix special.
Yes. Cancel Culture is a threat to Free Speech, but not the kind you imagined. Let me explain.
When speech from “in-groups” is criticized and challenged, you outcry “cancel culture.”
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
I’m a writer. All of my stories feature minority and LGBTQ+ characters. I follow many BookTok creators on TikTok, editors, writers, readers… etc. Upon Trump’s election, “keep politics out of books” had gone viral. Many BookTok content creators made videos about how they don’t want politics in their books and that books are escapism. Except, of course, all books are political. All art is political. So when people say “I don’t want politics in my book/movie/video games,” what they are really saying “I don’t want books/movies/video games to challenge my existing political views.” After all, even the most conservative players have no problem with games in which ally soldiers fight against Nazis when anti-fascism is inherently political.
Cancel culture is when Sinéad O'Connor criticized the Catholic Church for shielding child rapists, and the backlash promptly ended her musical career.
McCarthy-era persecution and silencing of artists, writers, and moviemakers is cancel culture.
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