Political Correctness Has Morphed Into -- Cancel Culture.

 

What started with political correctness has morphed into something else -- cancel culture.   FIRST: First cancel culture went after the 1st Amendment. If someone said something or did something that offended them, they came after that person’s job and their family.  THEN: They went after our history. Statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were torn down. Monuments to abolitionists were defaced. Even a statue of Abraham Lincoln, paid for by freed slaves and praised by Frederick Douglass, needed armed guards to prevent its destruction.    NOW: They're going after our culture. There’s a screaming 1% that’s trying to shout down the other 99% of us. A loud few are trying to force their views on the rest of society, telling us how to live and think.   Cancel culture is out of control — and frankly — it's un-American.   You and I know that our society is built on the values of free speech and mutual respect.  But cancel culture rejects both.  In place of free speech, it demands conformity.  Instead of mutual respect, it tears people down.    It would rather SILENCE, than speak — and would rather DESTROY than discuss.    Nikki Haley