How to tell the Fascist 'cancel culture's' avid adherents to go to hell
The Fascists have learned that putting us on the defensive gives them an automatic win — time to take back the advantage
The woke left has awakened to the fact that it can destroy almost anybody's career and livelihood by just surrounding him or her with controversy and bad press. That convinces the person's employer that the simplest way to avoid the controversy is to fire the person in question.
How do we defeat this insidious invasion into our private lives, values and sociopolitical viewpoints?
It is one thing to deal with the Fascist woke Left in person and quite another to have to confront them on social media. Normally, we have this incongruant tendency to think we are anonymous behind our social media accounts, but rest assured we are not. Even if we are not using our real names, there will be enough clues for anyone willing to expend the energy to find us.
Let us first deal with the face-to-face confrontation, rare these days but sill possible. When they start in with criticism about your opinion, viewpoint, etc., let them know you’re not having it. Shut them down immediately.
“I’m sorry, I was not under the impression I was dealing with a dictator. You have no right to tell me what I can think or say, so we’re done here.” Then, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard would say, “Make it so.” Walk away, show them the hand, refuse to respond. When they call you a racist or a white supremacist, laugh in their faces. Don’t defend yourself, that just continues the argument. Let them know through passive words and actions, you think they’re a joke and not worth bothering with any further. Truthfully, they are clueless how to deal with that.
If you find the exception that makes the rule, who has a minor clue, make it known to them they are the ones dividing the classes, spreading racist ideology and being a general Fascist little ass. Then, as you haven’t done so already, laugh in their face and walk away. The conversation has become completely useless.
What about being confronted on social media, or as is more common, hear of how a business or agency has delivered “wokism” in spades through firing a employee, censuring or banning a customer, simply because of what that person believes. What do we do about that indirect hit on our values and opinions?
Stupidty runs rampant among the woke Fascist Left. This demonstration in Columbus is typical of the division and classism sewn by the so-called ‘cancel culture.’ (Photo: Daniel Teague/Ohio Star)
Simple: Fight fire with fire. Go on the aggressive, return salvo for salvo. Their techniques can and should be used against them Attack our antagonist's own livelihoods and careers. Those on the receiving end of the Fascist “cancel culture” should adopt the attitude that anything they do to their tormentors is OK as long as it is nonviolent and lawful.
Defamation is unlawful. It is also not necessary to destroy the canceler's own reputation. That may sound like an extreme response. But ask yourself, would they hesitate to destroy you if they thought it would silence someone they already consider an enemy, just because of your opinion, viewpoint and/or lifestyle.
Hell, no, they wouldn’t!
The best way to imagine this situation is to consider the battle cruisers of the last century: Warships with battleship-caliber guns but mediocre armor, often described as "eggshells armed with hammers." The cancelers are equally vulnerable to storms of controversy and bad press that will destroy their reputations, and the best way to deter them is to equip everybody with a hammer.
It's difficult to stay in business if you alienate 30% or more of your customers, which any participation on either side of a controversy is likely to do. Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, as but one of these examples, disciplined a student for publishing attacks on Black Lives Matter.
BLM supporters will probably want to send their college-aged children to Hardin-Simmons, but, at least according to some comments posted on their Facebook page, others have dropped Hardin-Simmons from any current or future consideration.
Any business that fires an employee, any university that expels or otherwise disciplines a student, and any individual who tries to get another fired or expelled for criticizing Black Lives Matter or promoting Blue Lives Matter can and should therefore be given a lousy recommendation all over the Internet. Suppose, for example, a restaurant refuses to serve somebody, or fires an employee, for being a Trump supporter, police officer, or Zionist.
When responding to woke Fascists who fire, silence or ‘cancel’ others, it is vitally important to avoid false accusations or outright lies about the perpetrator. (Photo Illustration/ACV)
It's illegal (libel or slander) to publish falsely that the establishment sells rotten food. If you haven't actually eaten there, you do not even have the right to opine that food tastes bad. You can however publish accurately that they discriminate against Trump supporters, Zionists, and/or police officers depending which of these is true. This could cost them 30 to 70 percent of their business.
Students who demand that a faculty member be fired for not being sufficiently woke might find doors closing in their face when they seek employment if their own names show up in this context. Bringing on an employee who has done this sort of thing is like taking home a dangerous dog: You might be the next to feel its teeth.
You can post negative but truthful information about anybody or anything at, for example,
Facebook review sites, when available
A complaint about Pissed Consumer says "Anyone can trash anyone" which is absolutely true regardless of what people think of Pissed Consumer or Ripoff Report, which also has a controversial reputation. Both will give a canceler bad press in Google, Bing, and other search results.
Trustpilot where at least one "canceler's" reputation has already been shredded
Do not, however, post your own name because you want the controversy to be about your tormentor and not about you. Be sure to read the terms of service for each complaint site; some do not allow complaints to be taken down. This means that, even if the business desists from its abusive behavior (like firing employees at the behest of the woke Fascist Left) you cannot delete your complaint. You can, at most, rebut it by praising the business for the changes in its behavior.
It wasn’t called ‘being woke’ in Hitler’s Germany, but the effects were the same: Lie about your enemies, bully them into silence consolidate power and then burn down the Reichstag and declare youself dictator. The U.S., despite the doubters, is heading that direction. (Photo: Germany Museum of History)
You can also post anonymously to some of these sites, e.g. with an anonymous E-mail account. If you use VPN technology, they cannot even trace your IP address. This is not a license to lie about anybody because 1) you could still conceivably get caught and sued for a lot of money if you lie, 2) lying makes the target of the lie look good rather than bad, and 3) it is flat-out wrong.
We do not respect people who lie about even our worst enemies because it shows they are willing to lie to us and maybe about us. The truth ("They fired an employee under pressure from BLM" or "he posted a petition to try to get somebody fired") is more than adequate to make a business or person into a pariah with 30 to 70% of all prospective associates. Make certain you have the right target because a canceler might create a fake social media account using an innocent bystander's name. A Facebook account with few if any friends is a warning sign.
We have seen the argument, "If we do it to them, doesn't that make us as bad as them?" The initial aggressor is never on the same moral plane as the one who is attacked. Mess with the bull, get the horns. Kindness to the cruel is cruelty to the kind. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, and the last one standing writes the history books.
Now that everybody, as opposed to just the woke Left, has his or her own hammer he can use to smash anybody else's eggshell.
These basic rules should now be self-enforcing, and those who violate them (on either side) do so at their own peril as described above.
Individuals: Argue politics with others in appropriate venues, but do not try to damage another person's job, career, relationships, or livelihood because you disagree with them. If you do, they and others have the right to ruin yours by whatever lawful means are at hand. Do not try to bully businesses into taking your side in a political controversy unless you are prepared to make good whatever losses they incur by alienating potential customers.
Businesses: Issue a policy that what people do on their own time and while not representing the company is their business but, when they come to work, they leave their politics at the door and pick them up again when they go home. Do not allow employees to wear BLM attire, or MAGA hats for that matter, on the job. Serve everybody and don't take sides in controversial issues.
We can have an atmosphere of civilized and even heated debate, which is good for a free society, or we can have an atmosphere of terror in which anybody can be given bad press and destroyed by anybody else, perhaps anonymously and usually with no means of defense. Our preference at ACV is the former, and our advice to the woke Fascist Left is to be very careful where, when, and at whom you swing those hammers. To paraphrase the computer in the movie WarGames, trying to cancel other people is a stupid game that awards stupid prizes. The only way to win is not to play.