Instead of wondering why cancel culture exists, people should ask why complicity culture exists. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
If the perceived threat to freedom of speech is so vital, how do you think people feel about a very real threat to their freedom to exist?

Their freedom to live & find happiness without systemic barriers?
Standing up for only freedoms that serve you isn't patriotic.

It's virtue signaling.
We live in a society where every one of these boxes that you do not check, you're facing more obstacles:

✅ Straight
✅ White
✅ Able-bodied
✅ Neurotypical
✅ Cisgender
✅ Christian
✅ Male

The ones who fit this "ideal" best are complaining about cancel culture loudest.

Why?
It cost $0.00 to have empathy.

Why do they act like it's expensive?
Levelling up emotional intelligence & situational awareness is also free.
The sooner we all let go of the toxic, primitive embodiments of what it means to be manly & strong, the better.
Justice & freedom for everyone is what it being patriotic should be about.

Fight & sacrifice for others so they can have the rights they're entitled to in our Constitution.

That's what we celebrate on Remembrance Day. Sacrifice.

Not self-service.
Using freedom of speech to tear down and neutralize other freedoms is not patriotic.

It's a weak, selfish move.

Level the playing field. Come on.

Scared to lose?

That's what it looks like to me.
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