Cancel Culture

I’m old, I’ve been around for a long time and thought I had heard and seen almost everything.  It seems I’m not as up to speed on things as I thought I was or at least on modern slang.  Cancel Culture…it’s a thing…really?  Merriam-Webster defines cancel culture as “the practice or tendency of engaging in mass canceling as a way of expressing disapproval and exerting social pressure.”  Ironically it seems I hear those on the right constantly talking about cancel culture. 

“Mass cancelling”.  In 2018 the citizens of Missouri exercised a “citizen’s veto” via Proposition A to override legislation passed and signed by the republicans in Jefferson City by a whopping 62% to 38% margin which would have made Missouri a Right to Work state.  The citizens also passed Clean Missouri which would have eliminated gerrymandering, influence of lobbyist and a handful of other issues to clean up Missouri politics.  That was the “will of the people”.  Since then, the republican legislators have cancelled the will of the people and are once again supporting Right to Work and have cancelled Clean Missouri. 

Nationally we have seen the republicans cancel President Obama’s appointment to the US Supreme Court only to support President Trump’s appointment in an election year.  On January 6th we witnessed a few thousand domestic terrorists storm the US Capitol in an attempt to cancel the election.  We have watched Corporations like Amazon cancel the rights of workers to meet with union organizers to hear what the union could offer their employees. 

I guess beauty like cancel culture is in the eye of the beholder.