Sorry, L.A. No one cares enough to stop this shit. We got stuff to do, guys. You don’t expect us to be bored, do you? Some geezer choking to death on his own phlegm? Bummer for sure, but they would have died anyway. Me missing happy hour with my squad? A tragedy. YOLO!!! I have a friend who’s a nurse who can hook me up with some vaxx.

@1: Far more interesting is why the phrase infuriates the left.

Cancel culture has been around for millennia, but when it was white men doing the cancelling, it had no name. It was just the way things worked. As soon as women and minorities (racial, sexual or otherwise) got in on the game, it suddenly has a catchy, demeaning title.

@5 - render unto whataboutism every bit as much edification as whataboutism renders unto the rest of us.

Zero.

Bingo @6

@dipshit
nice try at canceling
Cancel Culture
now that it's
no longer
just. for.
You.

@Dope
is Venezuela Scandinavia?
is Tyranny democracy?
do dipshits and the
Uniformed vote?
does trumpf
LOVE the
uneducated?

Why do most US Citizens
SUPPORT Progressive Policy?
Like Healthcare Childcare Education
all those things deemed Too Expensive
by our Billionaire and Multi Millionaire Class.

4, it is infuriating because it is just one more Republican hypocrisy spoken with no irony, self-awareness or genuine intent. As you are an expert in these failures of character, it explains why you dont understand the anger.

@14: Being infuriated over something that supposedly "doesn't exist" is a neurosis. I don't need to understand the anger to understand the psychology.

@13 - I remember that writer. I don’t miss her posts.

@17: She probably describes herself as a centrist.

I saw the caption for that first item and wondered why it was worth reporting that VP-E Harris is going to eat raw tuna today.

"cancel culture" is a retread of "political correctness". The latter was also "invented on the left" as a term of party line art criticism in the soviet union, the borrowed and used ironically in the post-Stalin American Left to gently mock the excessively doctrinaire. This is how I first heard it, back in the mid 1980s.

The point is that both these terms have subtle and complex origins but they've been seized by right wing polemicists and tarted up into weird monstrosities to frighten and agitate people horny for the scare. You'll never find an example of anyone on the left using either term approvingly or non-ironically.

@16:

Do you just wake up every morning stupid or do you have to make a conscious effort to be stupid? I guess we have to add "amateur psychology" to the growing list of subjects you don't know jack-shit about.

Nobody said cancel culture doesn't exist, dipshit - @6 for example quite clearly stated "it has been around for millennia" - it's just that prior to the practice being adopted by non-white people it was such a normal, ingrained part of white culture that it didn't warrant even being pointed out. Now that it's being used against them, white people, particularly RWNJ's such as yourself, had to give it a suitably derogatory and dismissive appellation to distinguish between the so-common-it-didn't-need-a-name form of social ostracism you-all have always practiced and the how-dare-they-turn-the-tables-on-us form of social ostracism you suddenly found yourselves receiving.

The fact that such an obvious thing even needs to be pointed out to you is simply another example of your willful obtuseness and neutronic level of cognitive density...

21, good points. The American Right seems to have co-opted political correctness during the Obama era. When someone complains about political correctness now, it is inevitably an angry white man blowing a dog whistle, bemoaning the fact people are starting to hold him accountable for treating others like shit. This man often muses aloud: "black people use the N-word. Why cant I?"

@22 - see @1.

I do skim mynorthwest.com to see what the other side is saying and find it ironic that they shut off all comments across the site months ago, canceling all of their own readers.

Plenty of Republicans live in California, even in Los Angeles County. Plenty of people who do not give a fuck about not spreading COVID fly into and out of LAX on a daily basis.

California has one of the largest GDP's in this country (it could, literally, be its own country) and that includes a lot of essential workers, especially related to food production and processing - you know - people being forced to work no matter what. It doesn't take much for the virus to spread. One person here in OR went to work knowing they had COVID and 300 people got sick and 7 died.

1.1 Million registered voters in LA County voted for Trump. That's a lot of people who believe the virus is hoax. That's a lot of potential vectors who could literally infect the entire state.

Then again trying to explain any of this to the troll who will not stop trolling is like trying to have a conversation with Trump about why Pence cannot simply overturn the election and make him the supreme leader of Golfing and Tweeting so he can continue robbing the country blind while literally destroying everything and murdering (so far) as many people who died in the Civil War.

When we hit 1.1 million dead that will equal the amount of all people serving in the American military who have died in all of the wars that the American military has ever been in, ever. 1.1 million - the same number of people who voted for Trump in L.A. County.

Pretending that the people working hard to stop the spread of the virus are not being undermined in every possible way by people who DNGAF about the virus, who it sickens, who it kills, is just plain stupidity. This country has already proven it has at the very LEAST 74 million people who are fucking stupid beyond all comprehension. The actual number is probably much higher.

Stupidity kills and at the rate it is killing we're looking at millions dead before its over.

And I'd like to point out that the reference article @27 posted yesterday about COVID-19 pointed to a study on Frontiers, an open access publishing site that anyone with $2500 can publish whatever they want. I actually read it. The study did dazzle wit lots of data, charts and other graphics, however the conclusions were not just a stretch, but a leap...and a bad one. There is a reason this study was not found on The New England Journal of Medicine or The Lancet. If 27 wants to argue science, they need to find better sources.

Longer @23:

"I got nothing - let's play comment bingo!"

@32 meant for @25...

@1

Yeah, it's definitely a tell. If someone uses this phrase, or says "Democrat party" (in place of Democratic party), I know what kind of "discussion" we're about to have.

@18 - my screen name was chosen for reasons of irony and retained for reasons of convenience. Centrism mostly bores me as a bland sham of objectivity.

2020 was a shitshow. Arguing about cancel culture is wrestling muddy pigs.

I came for the rascals and was not disappointed. If 2020 did nothing else good, at least it gave us penguins exploring their own zoos.

The First Rule of Cancel Culture is anybody who claims there is such a thing as "Cancel Culture" is cancelled.

@35: Centrism is also having both sides mad as hell at you. Nothing boring about that.

@37: That pretty much nails it.

@20 Toro or yellow fin? Sashimi or sushi?

@34,

Also "virtue signal" and any reference to a democrat/left-leaning position as being "woke." That latter one is employed by a good number of the long standing members of the elite slog troll brigade.

@42

Oh yes, definitely. The dipshit boomer trolls love "woke."

@34: Republicans aren't so hypersensitive because 'Republican' is both a noun and and adjective.

Complaints about "cancel culture" et. al. are a manifestation of the same rhetorical game plan reactionaries have been playing since Barry Goldwater was still roaming the landscape, if not before: while in power, they front with culture war while they plunder the commonwealth on the sly. When they are out of power, they huff and puff about fiscal responsibility and thwart all efforts to actually improve people's lives.

You could hear the click of the shifting gears during the recent drama around COVID aid. They'll keep doing it as long as it continues to work.

@44

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, RD, but it's not an issue of sensitivity. It's an intentional misuse of language meant to denigrate Democrats and the Democratic party.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/07/why-republicans-say-democrat-party

But that's fine. It doesn't hurt my feelings. I don't have a ton of love for the Democratic party either. I've also been known to call Republicans all kinds of names. It's just that when someone casually refers to the "Democrat party" or "Democrat governors" I know where they get their "news" from. It's actually a useful tool that way, as I can generally predict if that person will be offering a good faith argument. Spoilers: they won't.

@45

The Two Santa Claus approach.

The factor 9 ripper quake from Alaska to California will probably hit around March 2021, at the peak (no, we are not at the peak) of the COVID epidemic.

Have fun!

Where oh where oh where on that video is the Muskrat Love?

@48: Wet dream?

@44 - so is “dipshit.”

@51: No, it's just a noun.

@52:

That's a pretty dipshit statement you just made there, dipshit...