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Hang on, i thought it was liberals who were against free speech! The evidence sure as hell isn't pointing that way. From yours:

"The Assholery Is the Point"

"In Arkansas, new governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (forgot that happened, didn't you?) has issued an executive order banning the use of "Latinx" from official communications and documents. And it's not enough that they are doing the asshole move. They have to go all Joe McCarthy on everything.

Part of the executive order is this: "All state offices, departments, and agencies shall submit a written report to the Governor detailing the findings of their review regarding the current use of the terms 'Latinx,' 'latinx,' 'Latinxs,' or 'latinxs.'" Why? Why the hell would that matter? The change in language (or, you know, "censorship") will happen regardless of how it was used in the past. It's pure intimidation; it's putting any state employees on notice. It's assholishness, through and through.
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DeSantis is working on levels of assholery that are almost metaphysically assholish. There's his battle with anything he sees as "woke," which I guess means "shit that makes straight white guys feel like they don't have all the power." In addition to the "Don't Say 'Gay'" bill, which bans any discussion of gender identity or sexuality in most school settings, and the "Stop WOKE Act," which prevents teaching anything that makes anyone sad about history, DeSantis and the nutzoid Republican legislature are now demanding that all Florida colleges and universities that receive any state funds to "report costs associated with campus diversity, equity and inclusion programs," meaning any "staff, programs, and campus activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and critical race theory."

The memo requiring this was sent out on December 28. Everything was due this past Friday. They gave institutions of higher education two weeks to sort all this out, with the possibility of losing state funding if they didn't comply. On top of that fuckery, DeSantis is appointing completely unqualified right-wing and Christian extremists to the Board of Trustees of New College, a small liberal arts school. And let's not get into DeSantis's just fucking weird attack on Disney for daring to oppose the rampant homophobia of his administration. Who's fucking doing the canceling now, shitmonger?
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No one is murdering babies born after failed abortions. No one is trying to make your kids gay or transgender. No one is harmed by the use of "Latinx" and smoking is still fucking dangerous. And, yeah, people should feel fucking sad about our fucked up American history. That's what makes you change shit.
That fantasy, though, drives people to behave in ways that prop up the fantasy. The death threats against teachers and hospital workers and anyone who doesn't join in the fantasy aren't going to stay just threats for long.

But the assholes don't care that it's all a fantasy. In fact, that's part of what makes it so much fucking fun. That shit drives us crazy. Yes, some people just want to watch the world burn, but some get off on making you watch it burn with them, whether you want to watch or not. And if you don't notice the fire, they'll fan the flames until the smoke suffocates you."

Your link - https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

Oh well, guess it was always inevitable cancel culture would come back to it's evangelistic birthplace. See:

B402, "...and good intentions it started with..." Briboy - Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them.
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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, church youth groups coordinated book burnings and music bonfires to purge their world of evil art. On any given night of the week, televangelists and Christian activists could be found on cable news attacking their enemies by name and blaming them for the “moral decay” of America.

Evangelicals tried their level best to smear and shame any person or organization who didn’t behave or believe appropriately in order to forcibly craft a society according to their Christian values.
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Also, might have it wrong, but i get the feeling that all the Republican cancelling
around these days is also sorta dealing in what they condemn as woke stuff too. See:

conix, You either still don't accept the fact it's misrepresentation of CRT, more than the guts of what CRT itself is and is meant to achieve, which millions object to. You know millions don't understand it well. You know you have abused the concept of woke. You know you have abused and misrepresented CRT. Either you don't understand millions reject CRT because they don't understand it and because they believe the misrepresentation of it, or you do and are lying about it in pretending you don't. Also i don't think CRT is a Democrat policy. If that's right even there you misrepresent. The fact it's an issue at all is because it has been established as one in a conservative manufactured culture war. See (should be all again for you, much of it is):

Ah. Thank you for the Rufo mention. Maher should have included that. Rufo is a culture war creator of the most disingenuous kind.
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See, a few in -- conix, Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee
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[INSERT: "knowing full well that they’re abusing the term" As all those who irresponsibly, even viciously, throw the word "woke" around with gay abandon. See
Lime Time, Just so we know you know how ignorant and insensitive your "... Go Woke. Go Broke." really is.
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stockmule, You really are an asshole, eh.
"Yep from the party that tells us men can have periods and get pregnant. "
A heckling parent maybe
Gay student heckled by parent at board meeting
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'Don't Say Gay': Biden denounces 'hateful' new Florida bill
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restripe, Children commit suicide. Internal conflict about sexual matters is one of the chief causes. Curriculum is set by considered experts, with appropriate consultation with medical professionals, i would assume where appropriate. You exhibit your continued ignorance and abuse of the word by describing any teacher as a woke teacher. Teachers are meant to teach the curriculum even if they personally may not agree with parts of it.
P - Too many parents neither have the skill, the time or even the inclination to know what is best for their children. Take you for example. No insult meant, just a fact.
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conix, Forget all your debatable bullshit. If you were genuinely concerned about the threats to democracy in America the facts speak for themselves.
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conix, Political correctness. "Woke". Critical Race Theory. Now Kendi. The latest conservative/GOP whipping post. Policy? C'mon.
We just attack. Kendi has always been with the others on the conservatives dart board. Just more in the background. Some others
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How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory
Thanks. You saved me chasing those videos. I never heard of that Rufo dude before, yet
seems he's a key - even the KEY - player in the present political outrage around CRT.
P - To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like the perfect weapon.
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To decry the right-wing wave of censorship is not to declare that “anything goes,” especially when it comes to the education of young children. A school district can and should use caution—and solicit parental input—when introducing sex education into the classroom. In fact, as the Miami Herald reported .. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article259859060.html .. , instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity “is not currently a part of the curriculum in the state’s kindergarten through third-grade classrooms.” And that’s entirely appropriate.

But prescribing textbooks and lesson plans (which public-school districts have always done) is different from imposing broad, vague bans on the undefined “instruction” of concepts and ideas. As the book bans illustrate, the harsh political reality is already vindicating civil-libertarian concerns.

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Oh yeah, it's called projection. Assholery projection.