Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Krystal and Saagar: Glenn Beck Says Dr. Seuss Ban Is FASCISM" video.

this is capitalism. This whole cancel culture thing is a capitalist protest, in which people refuse to consume something they find archaic or against their values. It’s always been like this but with the advent of social media it only seems more prevalent. The right wing has also engaged in such capitalist-consumer protests such as protesting against the NFL/NBA with the whole anthem issue; or supporting Goya because the owner expressed his support of Trump. This issue is nuanced but it has yet to involve government censorship, as it’s just consumers and companies dealing with public relations issues. Let’s be real, as time goes social values change. Nowadays people are less prone to accept insensitive tendencies, whereas in the past gay people had to hide their identity because the majority of people would reject them, and they’d risk losing their jobs. Companies cater to the demographics and social values of the day, this is just capitalism. In a more inclusive and globalist economy companies are in a place where they want to give off the veneer of agreeing with the larger consensus and being with the times. It just seems to me conservative social views are becoming minority social views. We should be fostering a liberal culture of civic libertarianism, culture wars just muddy the waters and people focus on what is not important. As a Libertarian (of the socialist variety) I am socially progressive, but that doesn’t mean I want to control conservative views. I want communities to be free to express their views and not fear coercion of others moral convictions upon each other. But this isn’t book banning or government censoring information and knowledge; it’s a publishing company saying they will no longer publish 6 books that to modern sensibilities contain questionable content. The same books that are still in rotation are available out there in the world. Or there’s many digital copies to download. I find this hardly Fascism, most people don’t even know the actual political doctrine of Fascism. They just throw the word around for things not liked.
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@b.t.1632 this is capitalism. This whole cancel culture thing is a capitalist protest, in which people refuse to consume something they find archaic or against their values. It’s always been like this but with the advent of social media it only seems most prevalent. The right wing has also engaged in such capitalist-consumer protests such as protesting against the NBA with the whole anthem issue; or supporting Goya because the owner expressed his support of Trump. This issue is nuanced but it has yet to involve government censorship, as it’s just consumers and companies dealing with public relations issues. Let’s be real, as time goes social values change. Nowadays people are less prone to accept insensitive tendencies, whereas in the past gay people had to hide their identity because the majority of people would reject them. Companies cater to the demographics and social values of the day, this is just capitalism. In a more inclusive and globalist economy companies are in a place where they want to give off the veneer of agreeing with the larger consensus. I too am a fan of John Stuart Mill, and since he was a classical liberal he had something to say about the conservative ideological persuasion: “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its constitution, be the stupidest party; and I do not see why honorable gentlemen should see that position as at all offensive to them, for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party . . . There is so much dense, solid force in sheer stupidity, that any body of able men with that force pressing behind them may ensure victory in many a struggle, and many a victory the Conservative party has gained through that power." John Stuart Mill ( British philosopher, economist, and liberal member of Parliament for Westminster from 1865 to 68 ) Classical liberalism is something sorely missing from modern American conservatism. In fact the only culture we should be fostering is a liberal culture and free society. Civic libertarianism.
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@seanhiggins8549 no problem. Our modern sociocultural struggle is this cancel culture and the ever prevalent issue of one group of people trying to coerce their moral views on others. The only way to a liberal and free society, the principles this Republic was founded upon, is for everyone to associate with the communities that are like minded and live and let live. Civic libertarianism is the cure to this odious culture war that is just a State tool for people to be divided upon social issues, when social issues should be given space for diverse expression and development. This was the principle classical liberals advocated, that society is the association of free peoples, and culture must be given free reign to progress and advance. “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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