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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

1. I did not agree with Cotton or support his form of cancel culture. I think he has a right to say what he likes, and we have a right to ignore it.

No one in the whole wide world disagrees with you about that. The question is whether the New York Times should be publishing his call for suppression of First Amendment rights with military force. You said yes. You don't just think he has a right to say what he likes -- you think it's important that other people be exposed to his intolerance for free speech. I am not holding my breath for you to say that the New York Times ought to be publishing the lefty critics of the Harper's letter, who are responding to speech they don't like with speech, rather than calling for guns in the streets.

2. People marching are trying to be heard. People demanding that those who disagree with them be canceled are trying to prevent others from being heard. People who ask the military to shut down peaceful protests are trying to prevent others from being heard.

Yes. And you are strangely tolerant of calls for the military to suppress speech.

3. The right is absolutely engaged in cancel culture. Trump is right now attempting to ban Tik Tok under some guise of national security. But the thing with the right is, they never succeed at canceling anyone. Everybody ignores them when they cry for firing of a pundit they dislike, or when they attempt a boycott. Focus on the Family and Brent Bozell boycotted all sorts of media and products advertised on shows they disliked for years, and it was almost always futile. The left, OTOH, is quite effective in scaring corporate lackeys who’ll happily jump into the latest virtue signaling orgy. I’m advocating we take the power away from the left exactly the same way we denied it to Bozell — ignore the cancellers.

I think you're just empirically wrong about this. Who has been silenced by the left?