No its political activism being shut down, while violence Isn't being shut down. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and other hosts, Visa, MasterCard, various banks etc can't shut down violence. They can however have a big impact towards restricting political activism when they are all working in the same way.
Its not political activism by violent people or people calling for violence that's the issue either both because they are shutting down plenty of people who haven't acted violently or called for violence and because other violent people or groups that agree with them more politically they are at least reluctant to shut down, often ignore, and sometimes support.
Its also not MAGA that's 1 - Violent or 2 - The only or almost only target.
The people who were at the Capitol were not practicing political activism they were violent and radical. Some of them were both no contradiction between the two things. Many of them were not violent and where criminal only to the extent of trespassing.
What they were not was directly relevant to this conversation. Indirectly relevant since the latest step in increased cancel culture was a reaction to them, but they aren't relevant to all the stuff that's gone on before, and they aren't the people being canceled now.
They individuals involved in the situation at the capital not even be canceled (if only because many are unknown) whether they were or not they are an utterly insignificant fraction of the shutdown. Cancel culture has been a growing problem for awhile now, it just keeps getting worse and more obnoxious, and is most frequently targeted against non-violent people (if only because there are so many more of them than people who are openly violent). All of which is more likely to drive the person on the margin to become radical, and the non-violent radical to consider violence, than it is to decrease violence and increase peace. Its going to increase anger and division, not decrease them. Partially because of the obvious enormous bias in how its done,but it would also have some tendency to have that effect even if it was done in a much more balanced way. |
