The spectacle of comedian Chris Rock being assaulted at the Academy Awards by Will Smith reveals something fundamentally wrong, even sick, about American society, overwhelmed as it is with violence and cancel culture. For those who missed the best primetime television in many years, the comedian Chris Rock, while performing …
Read More »Putin hits back at attempts to ‘cancel’ Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared efforts by the elites in the West to weaponize “cancel culture” against famous Russian composers and writers – in response to the country’s military offensive in Ukraine – to Nazi book burnings. “Today, they are trying to cancel the whole of our thousand-year-old country, …
Read More »Western cancel culture has gone nuclear in targeting an entire country
By now, we’re all used to righteous people pitching fits and ganging up, mean-girl style, on those they feel have committed transgressions against the status quo. But amid the conflict in Ukraine, some are actually trying to deplatform the world’s largest country by attacking anyone and anything even remotely associated …
Read More »Bolsonaro responds to reports of US pressure to cancel Russia visit
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro offered a cryptic comment about whether Washington is pressuring him to ditch an upcoming visit to Russia, saying he’d be glad to come to the US if he ever received an invitation. “Brazil is Brazil, Russia is Russia. I get on well with everyone. As soon …
Read More »Law protecting religious people from ‘cancel culture’ in the works
The law, put forward by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a devout Christian, aims to protect Australians from existing anti-discrimination legislation when they are making “statements of belief.” “Many people from various religious traditions are concerned about the lack of religious protection against the prevalence of ‘cancel culture’ in Australian life,” …
Read More »Narendra Modi’s sinister take on cancel culture is erasing centuries of Muslim history in India
Under the leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the right-wing government of Narendra Modi, India has sought to recall and glorify the ancient Hindu cultural narrative at the expense of hundreds of years of history. This policy, often referred to as ‘saffronisation’ (a reference to the spiritual use …
Read More »Fight against racism is noble cause, but in ‘cancel culture’ it turns into reverse discrimination, pushing people apart – Putin
Speaking to gathered experts and journalists in Sochi on Thursday, the president expressed his opinion that the fight against racism and discrimination has turned on its head. “The fight against racism is a necessary and noble cause, but in the modern ‘cancel culture’ it turns into reverse discrimination, reverse racism” …
Read More »Ex-NYT editor Bari Weiss goes on CNN to denounce ‘world gone mad’ from wokeness and cancel culture (VIDEO)
Weiss famously “self-canceled” in July 2020, resigning from the New York Times in protest over the sacking of an opinion editor at the behest of a Twitter mob. She has since set up shop on Substack and reinvested the proceeds into hiring a group of colleagues. Appearing on Stelter’s ‘Reliable …
Read More »What hope is there when even the Rolling Stones roll over and cancel ‘Brown Sugar’ for fear of offending the woke mob?
The Rolling Stones were supposed to be the bad boys of the 1960s cultural revolution, the antithesis of those nice boys in suits called the Beatles. Teenagers’ parents liked the Beatles; they seemed cuddly, wholesome, witty, and only wanted to hold your hand – whereas the Stones looked like they …
Read More »If the woke mob manage to cancel Dave Chappelle, our culture will wither to a bland nothingness
I am not offended by the comedian Dave Chappelle, not even a tiny little bit. I reckon he’s just about the funniest man in the world. Chappelle is a black guy. I’m a white bloke and, if the woke mob actually listened to what he says instead of squealing and …
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