Cancel culture is an important element of liberal fascism

Bill Shanefelt:

Those of us of a certain age remember those grainy, black-and-white films we were shown in school of a spreading ink stain or the tentacles of a giant octopus that represented Communism spreading over Europe and heading our way.

Today the advancing fascist, totalitarian state that is coming for us might well be represented as a gigantic Pac-Man figure scurrying around within eating any idea or thought or expression that deviates from or opposes leftism: It's Frost's fog not on tiny cat feet but on steroids, and when it is done it will envelop us all.

This Pac-Man figure is:

Cancel culture ...the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive. Cancel culture is generally discussed as being performed on social media in the form of group shaming.

It is led by truly ignorant people who, literally, don't know what they are talking about.  The prime example of which is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), a cum laude graduate of Boston University majoring in international relations and economics:

Rarely does an AOC remark on economic issues go by...[that does not prompt] doubts about how much she learned [in school]....[Like her] Green New Deal [that] would “spend the U.S. into oblivion”....her opposition to Amazon’s attempt to establish offices in Long Island City....[and her claim] that unemployment in America “is low because everyone has two jobs” and “people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week.”  

AOC is but one of the geniuses urging a boycott of Goya Foods because its CEO, Robert Unanue, dared to praise President Trump.  Mr. Unanue, of course, is not alone.  The list is long, from the coaches who use the wrong words, to the proposed rescinding of admission of the student who also praised Mr. Trump (the rescinding has been, for now, aborted),  and even to the canceling of a virtual speech by the President's daughter.

That is but a small sample, and readers undoubtedly know of many more that, especially, do not involve the President such as a Superbowl-winning quarterback being forced to grovel for criticizing the practice of kneeling during the anthem.  And, ridiculously, they've canceled The Duke, John Wayne!

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It is one of the truly evil aspects of modern liberalism as practiced by the Democrats.  Trump has struck a chord with normal people about this aspect of how the left operates to destroy those with whom they disagree,