Let's get right into audience questions today, last set of audience questions before our little
vacation and then we'll be back and we'll take more of them. Cancel culture. Got a
very interesting question. We know that, David, that the right hates council culture, supposedly,
but how do they believe it should be fixed anyway? Isn't any, quote, solution authoritarian by date?
By definition? This is a great point. Essentially, all answers for how the right wants to
fix the problem of council culture are extremely authoritarian, other than just like culture
changing, where people don't say when they don't like something anymore, which I don't know how
you achieve. I don't know how you would ban Cancio culture or the fact that actions have consequences
in terms of sometimes people will tweet about it. Sometimes people will tell a business,
I'm not going to buy your product because of this or that or the other thing that you as a company
said or one of your employee said or whatever, any of those actions would be authoritarian and
they would be against what they claim their views to be. Remember, the right says they're
about free speech and people getting to say what they want and businesses not being regulated.
Any way that you try to fix what they define as council culture would either require
limiting businesses, regulating businesses somehow so they can't act on whatever information
they want, assuming it's not illegal, like someone's race or religion, to say we don't
want to work with you anymore, you're fired or whatever. That's very heavy handed authoritarian
business regulation, which the right claims to be against, saying people don't have the right
to tweet their displeasure at what a celebrity or a business said. They don't have the right to
announce and carry out a boycott on a business because that's what they want to do. It's all
insanely authoritarian. There would be no conceivable legislative solution to quote, council
culture that wouldn't. Violate or in some other ways, violate the First Amendment or limit speech.
So what you have to do once you understand there's no legislative way to deal with council culture,
you have to realize that the continued demands from the right to deal with council culture either
go against the very First Amendment they claim to defend or are merely pandering. And that's
one of the most important things, I think, that we can take away from this discussion, which is
that many of these right wingers and some on the left who are talking about council culture, not
as something that happens infrequently and that we should really and think about and evaluate and say
what what makes sense when they are talking about it, they don't even really want a solution in the
sense that they know there isn't going to be one. This is just a cultural reality. Elections rather
I'm sorry, speech. Elections do have consequences. Speech has consequences. And those consequences
in most cases are also protected by the First Amendment as far as the government is involved
by business freedom when businesses are involved, etc.. Now, we can't ignore the huge hypocrisy from
the right on this issue. Who are the two biggest victims of cancelation that you can think of
over the last 20 years from either clear it's the Dixie Chicks who were a are a country music
band. But when they came out against George W. Bush's foreign policy, the right, which is very
intertwined with country music, canceled them. They were blacklisted from so many radio stations
and the right said Dixie Chicks are over Colin Kaepernick. These two biggest instances of these
cancelations that the right claims to be against were done by the right. And then you had people
throwing Curis out the window. Starbucks was bad. The NFL for the kneeling Amazon for saying we're
not going to host parler. You know, Taylor Swift, when she came out and took political positions,
the right loves to cancel people using their terminology, but they claim to be
against it. And so this entire thing is a ruse. Now, as I talked about last week
during during our interview with with Professor Kovalik.
Just because we can identify some instances where someone was wrongly shamed or fired doesn't mean
we call this an epidemic, and he actually agreed with me on that issue. And you bring me a wrong
decision that was made. And if it was indeed made wrongly, I'll be right there with you. It's no no
problem whatsoever. But we can't allow these right wingers to claim they're against council culture
when there are some of the biggest councilors. Look at what Republicans did to Cindy McCain.
Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Senator John McCain, was censured because she didn't want to
vote for Trump. She wasn't voting for Trump. They are a complete and total hypocrites. And
this is really getting to the key thing, which is any solution that they would propose would
be extraordinarily authoritarian and arguably against the First Amendment. And many of them
don't really want solutions. They just want to pander. And unfortunately, it's working
very well. They're getting a lot of mileage out of this Dr. Seuss cancel culture stuff.