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)
