{"id":1386778,"date":"2022-03-17T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386778"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:29:43","slug":"five-ridiculous-attempts-to-cancel-conservatives-and-one-major-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-ridiculous-attempts-to-cancel-conservatives-and-one-major-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ridiculous Attempts To Cancel Conservatives, And One Major Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffive-ridiculous-attempts-to-cancel-conservatives-and-one-major-solution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386778&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Readers-Pass-Meads-Five-conservatives-who-have-had-dropped-advertisers_contracts16x9.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The Left has a strange definition of \u201canti-fascist\u201d these days.To a progressive, if you are anti-fascist, you must express your solidarity with the government and big corporarations\u2019 on the social justice issue ju dour. Anyone who fails to do so \u2014 according to their logic \u2014 must be subjected to browbeating, cancellation and intimidation. Those who don\u2019t fall in line must be doxxed and have their employers contacted, and anybody sponsoring their business or paying for their product is to be skewered as a bigot worthy of societal banishment \u2014 all in the name of tolerance, freedom, and justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It makes no sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And unfortunately, that is the point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It does not have to make sense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It just has to scare the right people into believing lies about conservatives in order to increase Leftist power and diminish conservative influence. The end goal is to cut off your funding and relegate you to the shadows of society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sometimes though, it does not take a big campaign to get sponsors or businesses to end their support. All it can take is a tweet from a handful of people. Sadly, there have been dozens of examples of this ludicrous action happening over the years, but we boiled it down to five ridiculous cancellations, and we even have some advice for how to help beat this cancel culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Perhaps nobody has been as canceled by his advertisers over the past five years \u2014 and still come out on top \u2014 as the host of Fox News\u2019 \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2018, Carlson made comments regarding immigration that drew ire for seemingly implying that certain immigrants make America \u201cpoorer and dirtier.\u201d In a segment addressing a caravan of thousands of Honduran migrants coming to the border, presumably to be let into the country or sneak into the U.S. illegally, Carlson remarked that this sort of immigration system was unsustainable for a variety of reasons, and that we needed immigrants who could help an increasingly automated economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s obvious that we need more scientists and skilled engineers, but that\u2019s not what we are getting. Instead, we\u2019re getting waves of people with high school educations or less. Nice people, no one doubts that, but as an economic matter this is insane. It\u2019s indefensible, so no one even tries to defend it,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Whether you agree with him or not, progressives launched a movement to get Carlson kicked off the air for supposedly saying that immigrants make the country dirtier \u2014 except he didn\u2019t say that. Regardless, for that comment, Carlson lost at least 26 advertisers who kowtowed to the Left. Companies fled, but Carlson stood his ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shortly after the boycott began, Carlson addressed the issue head on, noting that the Left never tried to argue with his point. They just took the last line, blasted it around the internet, and attempted to cancel him. The host ultimately said, \u201cwe will not be intimidated\u201d and promised to keep covering difficult topics. In 2022, it would appear Carlson has won that battle as he now holds the top cable primetime show in the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center Ryan Anderson<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Ryan Anderson is among the most influential thinkers in the conservative movement, even if not a household name. Anderson has been sounding the alarm on a number of social issues \u2014\u00a0traditional marriage, abortion, and most famously transderism \u2014 for quite some time now. He wrote a best-selling book, \u201cWhen Harry Became Sally,\u201d which is an expose of the Left\u2019s assault on children and transgender ideology indoctrination throughout American life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That book, after being up for sale for three years, was \u201cremoved from Amazon\u2019s digital marketplace after the company claimed it framed \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/03\/12\/ryan-anderson-refutes-amazon-book-on-transgenderism-doesnt-call-lgbt-identity-mental-illness\/\"><span>LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness<\/span><\/a><span>.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Anderson, \u201cThe phrase \u2018mental illness\u2019 does occur in the book twice\u2014but not in my own voice: once quoting a \u2018transwoman\u2019 writing in The New York Times, and once quoting the current University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins,\u201d Anderson told The Daily Signal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This one came \u2014 no pun intended \u2014 totally\u00a0 out of left-field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>CrossFits\u2019 Greg Glassman<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2020, Black Lives Matter and other leftist groups marched through the streets, in many cases burning those same streets, in protest of the killing of George Floyd. Corporations rushed to support their cause, donating $90 billion collectively to BLM groups and other organizations supporting \u201cracial justice\u201d following those marches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the time, the nation was shut down due to COVID-19. Nobody was supposed to get close to anybody outside their household. But certain health professionals argued those massive protests were okay because \u201cracism\u201d was also a health crisis, and that BLM protests were a necessary risk. However, if you tried protesting government mandates, those same health experts said you were a danger to all. Again, you might notice it does not make any sense \u2014 a virus does not stop its spread depending on who is protesting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many poked fun at this, including CrossFit\u2019s former CEO Greg Glassman. In early June, the\u00a0 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research center, tweeted, \u201cRacism and discrimination are critical public health issues that demand an urgent response #BlackLivesMatter,\u201d while linking to a longer statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Glassman tweeted, \u201cIt\u2019s Floyd-19,\u201d while lambasting the agency for its failure to address COVID-19, saying, \u201cYour failed model quarantined us and now you\u2019re going to model a solution to racism? George Floyd\u2019s brutal murder sparked riots nationally. Quarantine alone is \u2018accompanied in every age and under all political regimes by an undercurrent of suspicion, distrust, and riots.\u2019 Thanks!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those tweets outraged many, and despite an apology, Glassman resigned after advertisers and gyms associated with CrossFit began dropping their contracts, criticizing Glassman, and expressing their support for the BLM movement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>But it isn\u2019t just BLM that you can\u2019t criticize, you have to stay away from gun control activists, too. In 2018, Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham linked to a story from The Daily Wire, remarking that school shooting survivor David Hogg was \u201cwhining\u201d that he had been rejected from four colleges he\u2019d applied to while a senior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDavid Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA\u2026totally predictable given acceptance rates.)\u201d Ingraham said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response, Hogg put out a list of Ingraham\u2019s top advertisers and demanded his Leftist following call each of them to request they drop Ingraham, or face a boycott. The pressure campaign worked and Ingraham lost a total of 24 advertisers from companies like \u201cOffice Depot, TripAdvisor, Expedia, Hulu, Johnson &#038; Johnson, Wayfair, Nestl\u00e9, Nutrish, and TripAdvisor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Michael Knowles &#038; The Daily Wire<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Harry\u2019s Razors claimed to offer \u201cShave, Body, Face and Hair products for all men.\u201d They were at one point a sponsor of Daily Wire\u2019s Michael Knowles and his podcast, \u201cThe Michael Knowles Show.\u201d As far as we know, Knowles is indeed a man. But it seems Harry isn\u2019t for \u201call men,\u201d rather the company is only for progressive men.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In March 2021, one random Twitter user @Flyingsodacan1 \u2014 who as of present day has 38 followers \u2014 tweeted their disgust that Harry\u2019s would dare be associated with, let alone give money to, Knowles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c@harrys is sponsoring Michael Knowles,\u201d Mr. FlyingSodaCan1 tweeted. \u201cThe same\u00a0 @michaeljknowles who is spreading homophobic and transphobic content. He had Joseph Nicolosi jr as a guest on his show and equates being trans to having schizophrenia. It is wrong that Harry\u2019s or anyone sponsors this vile content\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Twitter user was referencing an interview from years before in 2018 when Nicolosi appeared on Knowles\u2019 show and indeed compared transgenderism to a mental illness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Regardless, that one tweet was enough for Harry\u2019s to \u201ccancel\u201d Knowles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThanks for bringing this up,\u201d Harry\u2019s official Twitter account tweeted. \u201cWe condemn the views in this video, which are inexcusable &#038; at odds with our longtime support of the LGBTQ+ community. We\u2019ve ended our relationship with this show &#038; are looking into our sponsorships to prevent any values misalignment going forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Left is successful at getting corporations to agree to their demands because it\u2019s often that a competing business willing to stand by conservative simply doesn\u2019t exist. Until that changes, the spread of cancel culture will persist, at the expense of all who value free speech and conservative values. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Left has a strange definition of \u201canti-fascist\u201d these days.To a progressive, if you are anti-fascist, you must express your solidarity with the government and big corporarations\u2019 on the social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}