The Daily Objective: The Cancelling of Gina Carano

  • There’s no comparison with e.g. firing of Disney Stars what happened to Jews in Nazi Germany (Rucka)
  • Playing Devil’s Advocate: in Nazi Germany there was a ramping up — it didn’t all happen at once. The hyperbole on both the left and the right is grounded in reality (Mark)
  • Leading thinkers are using this language seriously (Rucka)
  • Neither side is telling the complete truth (Mark)
  • There’s no objective standard for what defines that controversy and people are being convicted for things they did in the past when standards were different. People are responding intuitively to a real unfairness. (Mark)
  • Book: Panics and Persecutions of The Digital Age about people who were cancelled (Mark)
  • The left looks at the world as ‘us versus them’ — and the right is doing the same thing (Mark)
  • The more we conflate negative rights with so called positive rights, the more we live in a world where your rights are up to other people — not a world I want to live in (Rucka)
  • The distinction between political power and economic power is important (Rucka)
  • People see corporations are the enemy today and I’m concerned about what the right is turning into (Rucka)
  • Objectivism is the antidote to the insanity on both sides (Mark)

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