Category: Cancel Culture

Drama Alert: Ben Shapiro Calls Out Daily Wire Employee Candace Owens for Her “Ridiculous” Opinions on Israel – Ace of Spades HQ

Ace on the impulse behind Cancel Culture:

…it feels too damn good to rush out to destroy a stranger’s life, and so we ought to be very suspicious about cruelty that comes in the guise of sanctimony.

White YouTuber Drills Wells and Brings Clean Water to 500,000 Africans; SJWs Cancel Him For “Embarrasing” Africans and Portraying Them As Always Needing Outside Help – Ace of Spades HQ

Observation: While BLM used their donations to build multi-million-dollar mansions for their executives, somebody named “Mr. Beast” built wells for a half-million Africans.

IndieGoGo SHADOWBANS A Beautiful Sci Fi Comic By Christian Creator Aaron Lorpresti – Jon Del Arroz

The crowdfunding campaign in question: KIT CARTER: PLANET DOOM GRAPHIC NOVEL

Sure enough, as of November 4, 2023, Mr. Lopresti’s crowdfunded book is NOINDEXED by Indiegogo, telling the search engines not to index his campaign. (Click image to enlarge in another tab)

And finally, a direct search on Indiegogo for the project’s title yields no results on November 4, 2023. (Click image to enlarge in another tab)

Shadowbanning confirmed.

A Socialist’s Definition of ‘Woke’ – Freddie deBoer

(From the Wayback Machine, possibly because the author received some grief for this piece.)

“Woke” or “wokeness” refers to a school of social and cultural liberalism that has become the dominant discourse in left-of-center spaces in American intellectual life. It reflects trends and fashions that emerged over time from left activist and academic spaces and became mainstream, indeed hegemonic, among American progressives in the 2010s. “Wokeness” centers “the personal is political” at the heart of all politics and treats political action as inherently a matter of personal moral hygiene – woke isn’t something you do, it’s something you are. Correspondingly all of politics can be decomposed down to the right thoughts and right utterances of enlightened people. Persuasion and compromise are contrary to this vision of moral hygiene and thus are deprecated. Correct thoughts are enforced through a system of mutual surveillance, one which takes advantage of the affordances of internet technology to surveil and then punish. Since politics is not a matter of arriving at the least-bad alternative through an adversarial process but rather a matter of understanding and inhabiting an elevated moral station, there are no crises of conscience or necessary evils.

Why Does Google Hate the Blogfather? – The Other McCain

“Demonetizing” is censorship, period, and it didn’t start happening — the orchestrated attempt to shut down independent online publishing — until Obama’s second term. There was a left-wing blogosphere (the “moonbats,” as we called them) and a right-wing blogosphere (the “wingnuts,” as the Left called us), and the existence of two oppositional blogospheres was a fact of life everyone in the game understood.

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When Instapundit and Ace of Spades subsequently stopped using Twitter, it was not so much as a protest against the banning of myself and others as it was an acknowledgement that Twitter was (and is) a parasitical growth that exploits its users.

If memory serves, the immediate reason that Ace left Twitter was because he looked at his analytics and realized he was being shadowbanned. (Which numerous Twitter execs perjured themselves in denying ever, ever happened.)

However, both subsequently concluded that their Twitter content provided revenue for Twitter, not for them.