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 Dailywire: Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, a famed artist and activist, warned Americans during an interview that aired late last week that they are already under the control of an authoritarian state, they just don’t realize it yet. Weiwei said that the situation in China has become “more extreme, in terms of censorship, in terms of their tolerance to dissidents.” He later added that he was not hopeful for China’s future given the direction that China is going. Later, when asked about authoritarianism in the U.S., Weiwei said “certainly, in the United States, with today’s condition, you can easily have an authoritarian.” “In many ways, you’re already in the authoritarian state,” he said. “You just don’t know it.” When asked how so, he responded, “Many things happening today in U.S. can be compared to Cultural Revolution in China.” “Like people trying to be unified in a certain political correctness,” he continued. “That is very dangerous.” ... There is more including a video of the ...

Bari Weiss makes the case against the evils of liberal cancel culture.

 Epoch Times: Investigate journalist Sharyl Attkisson says combatting censorship in today’s media and big tech landscape requires Americans to “speak up” and stand firm against people and groups that seek to silence them. “I think the most important single thing people can do is to speak up and not be bullied by the people that want to keep the voices silent so that it appears, in this artificial world that we live in online, that everybody’s on the same page and everybody thinks the same thing and this is okay,” Attkisson told The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders program. “Don’t be kowtowed into not speaking out. Don’t act like that’s okay.” Attkisson, author of “The Smear,” has been researching how information has been controlled in the United States, particularly by political and corporate interest groups. She said these groups began ramping up their efforts to control information once Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. But these groups, she argued, began rea...

  Steve McCann: The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored From race obsession to cancel culture, the left is embracing the tactics and strategy of the Nazis. 

 Red States: In case you needed more proof that cancel culture can’t sustain itself forever, a recent poll revealed that most Americans do not favor the political tactic. It can be expected that the number of people who view cancel culture as a negative will only rise as the hard left continues to go overboard with their latest exercise in cultural Marxism. According to a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released to  The Hill , 64% of respondents claimed there is “a growing cancel culture” that is threatening to their freedom. Only 36% indicated that they did not believe it to be a threat to their freedom. The Hill reported, “the poll found that 36 percent of Americans said cancel culture is a “big problem,” while 32 percent called it a “moderate problem.” Another 20 percent said it was a “small problem” and 13 percent said it is “not a problem.” The survey was published only days after CBS announced that Sharon Osbourne would be stepping down from her position as co-host of...

 Glenn Reynolds: Americans hate woke culture, as I noted in these pages not too long ago . Black, white, Republican and Democrat, a large majority of Americans oppose it. Even people like former President Barack Obama, Bill Maher and ultra-liberal comedienne Sarah Silverman hate it (Maher calls it “Stalinist”). But it keeps going. Why is that? And what can you do about it — especially if you or someone you are close to comes under attack? In short, it keeps going because it’s easy and fun — and you have to make it less so. Lesson one: Don’t panic — and don’t give in. Ian Prior, of Loudoun County, Va., publishes The Daily Malarkey, an Internet humor site that goes after what he calls the “Chardonnay Antifa.” As he recently recounted to Fox News, after he published an op-ed attacking political correctness, he found himself on the sharp end of woke attacks led by a group of teachers, administrators and woke citizens. According to news reports, the Loudoun Stalinists put together a li...

 Epoch Times: Harvard Law professor emeritus said that cancel culture needs to be fought by all Americans, after a House subcommittee last week held a hearing to discuss disinformation and extremism in the media. Dershowitz, who notably defended former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial last year, said that Americans who subscribe to all political viewpoints—including liberals—should be pushing back. The House subcommittee specifically aimed at cable and satellite carriers that give a voice to conservative-leaning networks. “I hope all Americans wake up to this,” Dershowitz told Newsmax on Thursday. “I hope it’s not just the ‘shoe is on the other foot’ test. Now, the conservatives are the victims of cancel culture so they’re big supporters of the Constitution and constitutional rights. During McCarthyism, it was the left that were the victims, and the right were the oppressors.” Going further, he stated that “we need both the right, the left, and also the ce...

 Washington Examiner: S eemingly every day, the world's biggest corporations dramatically announce a change to their business practices, product offerings, or marketing strategies because a vocal few on the Left create a fuss. Whether it's demands for users to play as transgender children in the latest  Harry Potter  video game or forcing  white employees  to undergo internal human resource struggle sessions, the marketplace increasingly appears to operate at the mercy of the allegedly offended. But some in the business community have had enough and continue standing athwart the outraged, yelling "enough." DR. SEUSS BOOKS ROCKET TO TOP OF AMAZON BESTSELLER LIST AFTER PUBLISHER PULLS OVER 'RACIST' IMAGERY Goya Foods In the midst of riots and general unrest throughout the nation's cities last summer, Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue reiterated his support for former President Donald Trump. “We're all truly blessed ... to have a leader, like President Trump, ...

 Monica Showalter: As corporation after corporation jumps into the mud pit of political correctness -- everything from wokester ads, to payoffs to Black Lives Matter, to critical race theory from the boardrooms, the Hyatt hotel chain has emerged as a firewall against the leftist cancel-culture lunacy. It may be the first big sign of wokester mobbery peaking. Facing a leftist call to boycott them for hosting the Conservative Political Action Committee convention in Florida, the hotel chain refused to bow down like so many of them do. Instead, they bit back against the Twitter mob leading the charge with an impressive statement of first principles : ”We take pride in operating a highly inclusive environment and we believe that the facilitation of gatherings is a central element of what we do as a hospitality company,” a spokesperson told Fox Business. “We believe in the right of individuals and organizations to peacefully express their views, independent of the degree to which the pe...

 The Lid: We are rapidly moving toward a one-party government just like China. The Big Banks and numerous corporations have reportedly decided not to allow donations to pro-Trump politicians or PACs. Certain members of Congress are reportedly thinking about designating the MAGA movement as “domestic terrorists.” Reminder: when you give power-hungry people total control of your legislature, this is what you get. It’s 1984 on steroids. Big   Banks, Corporations Join The Anti-Trump Bandwagon From John Carney at  Breitbart J.P. Morgan Chase, the nation’s biggest bank by assets and market capitalization, said it is halting donations through its PAC for six months. Citigroup, the third-largest U.S. bank by assets, is reportedly pressing pause on political donations for the first quarter of 2020. Goldman Sachs put the kibosh on donations pending a review of “how people acted during this period,” according to  the New York Times , with the likely result that it wil...

Scott Jennings: America’s left-wing has taken a dark and dangerous turn, now openly expressing a desire for its political opposition to be delegitimized, criminalized, intimidated and ultimately banished. This attitude has been boiling since Donald Trump became president. He’s too dangerous to be allowed to speak, they said, as the likes of Sen. Kamala Harris  called on Twitter  to suspend his account. But that seems quaint compared to the left’s rhetoric of the last few days. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi labeled Republicans  “domestic enemies”  and “enemies of the state” in an unhinged rant rivaling any of Trump’s crazier tweets. And that was after Rep. Ayanna Pressley called for GOP officials to be harassed with “ unrest in the streets .” Words have consequences. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and his wife, Kelley, were put in danger as they walked out of Trump’s GOP acceptance speech in Washington on Thursday night. As the video shows , Mrs. Paul ...

Matthew Boose: The Mob Wants to Ruin Tucker Carlson Because He’s Right The Left wants people to believe that what they have in store for the country cannot possibly be averted, that Americans might as well accept it now. Anyone who suggests an alternative is their enemy and must be destroyed. Carlson articulates the case against the left's policies better than anyone else and they can't match his argument with anything other than "Shut up,"  This is another example of the left-wing cancel culture that is destroying the American civilization. The mob is also out to destroy great reporters like John Kass who pointed out how Soros-backed prosecutors are responsible for the increased criminal activity in this country by turning the perps loose.

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,...

William Jacobson: Cancel Culture Is Real Professor Jacobson is right about the cancel culture and their attempt to silence his criticism BLM.  He is also right about BLM.  He is also the kind of professor I liked when I was in law school.  Students should give him a listen because it will help them become better lawyers.

Jeff Charles: As Keyser Soze once said, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” It appears that the far left is taking a page out of ol’ Lucifer’s playbook and applying it to cancel culture. High-profile members of the progressive movement are still trying to convince the American public to believe that cancel culture doesn’t exist. Like the Great and Powerful Oz, they seek to draw a curtain around this societal cancer so they can continue to use this destructive tactic against their political opposition. On Saturday, New York Times columnist Charles Blow took to Twitter to argue against the existence of cancel culture . In his tweet, he intimated that what people know as cancel culture is nothing more than the exercise of free speech. He then suggested that when public figures “make mistakes,” they have to take their “knocks” for it. The columnist also stated that he has had to deal with the consequences of his mistakes like anyone else....