{"id":1987250,"date":"2023-07-31T19:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-greenwood-warns-what-will-happen-if-cancel-culture-isnt-stopped\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:41:54","slug":"lee-greenwood-warns-what-will-happen-if-cancel-culture-isnt-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-greenwood-warns-what-will-happen-if-cancel-culture-isnt-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Greenwood warns of dire consequences if cancel culture continues unchecked."},"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\">22<\/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%2Flee-greenwood-warns-what-will-happen-if-cancel-culture-isnt-stopped%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=1987250&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--><h2>Lee Greenwood Warns of Cancel\u200b Culture&#8217;s Threat to Freedom of \u200dExpression<\/h2>\n<p>Country music\u2063 legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lee-greenwood-proud-to-be-an-american-singer-latest-to-pull-out-of-nra-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Greenwood<\/a> has issued a dire warning about the future of America amidst the growing trend \u2064of canceling \u2063artists. This comes in the wake of attempts to \u200bcancel fellow country star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-shoots-to-number-one-amid-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Aldean<\/a> \u200c over\u2062 his music video for &#8220;Try That in a \u200bSmall Town,&#8221; which critics claimed was &#8220;pro-lynching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/cancel-culture-mob-attacked-jason-aldean-they-came-god-bless-usa-they-cant-cancel-all-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> titled &#8220;Cancel culture mob attacked Jason Aldean. They came \u200bfor &#8216;God Bless the USA.&#8217; But \u2064they can&#8217;t\u200c cancel all of us,&#8221; the 80-year-old Greenwood passionately defends freedom of expression. He writes, &#8220;The latest &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-i-got-a-covid-test-four-times-in-one-day-two-came-back-negative-two-came-back-positive-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Elon Musk: I Got A COVID Test Four Times In One Day. \u2018Two Came Back Negative, Two Came Back Positive.\u2019 | The Daily Wire\">cancel culture<\/a>&#8216; attack\u2063 has struck directly through\u200c the\u200b heart\u200b of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feud-escalates-between-country-legend-and-rude-reporter-ends-in-10k-anti-biden-bet\/\" title=\"Feud Escalates Between Country Legend and Rude Reporter, Ends in K Anti-Biden Bet\">country music<\/a> as the mob has come for \u2064one of our most popular \u200ccurrent stars, Jason Aldean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood emphasizes that this \u200cissue extends beyond Aldean, stating, &#8220;Make no\u200c mistake, this isn&#8217;t just about Jason \u2014 who is a \u2063friend, and I&#8217;m \u2063also a fan \u2014 this is about all\u200d of us \u2064in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-humiliated-after-trying-to-make-country-cover-of-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-a-racial-issue\/\" title=\"Washington Post embarrassed over attempt to racialize Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' country cover.\">country \u200bmusic<\/a>. \u2064Freedom of\u2063 expression is under attack. We are\u200d increasingly seeing it throughout our culture. Yet, freedom of speech\u200b and creative expression are essential to a free country \u2014 it&#8217;s the American way of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE \u200dAMERICAN WAY: Cancel culture mob attacked Jason Aldean \u2014\u2063 they came for &#8216;God Bless\u2064 the USA&#8217; too. Read Lee Greenwood&#8217;s compelling\u2064 op-ed: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kh7Kvntrii\">https:\/\/t.co\/Kh7Kvntrii<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L1Y1qOMLBt\">pic.twitter.com\/L1Y1qOMLBt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1685636399960031234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Greenwood goes on to condemn the act of \u2062canceling \u2063artists as &#8220;anti-American&#8221; and warns of its insidious nature. Drawing from his own experience \u200bof being &#8220;canceled&#8221; and &#8220;terminated&#8221; from the National Endowment of the Arts, he highlights the importance of standing up against\u200d this trend. Greenwood suspects that his refusal to demand former President Donald Trump stop playing his\u2063 song \u200b&#8221;God Bless the USA&#8221; at rallies led to his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Refusing to back down,\u2064 Greenwood \u200bstates, &#8220;We must ensure \u2062that we don&#8217;t allow cancel culture to \u200ctake our freedom of expression away.\u200c In response to the cancel culture, I&#8217;m committing the rest of my life to freedom of expression, to country music, and \u2064to America&#8217;s veterans who&#8217;ve died and\u2062 served to protect those freedoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He\u200b concludes with\u200b a \u2064powerful message, saying, &#8220;We must send a message to\u2064 every queller of\u200d free speech that their actions\u2062 are not welcome here and as my song says, &#8216;&#8230; that the \u200cflag still stands \u200dfor freedom, and they can&#8217;t take that away.&#8217; May God bless our\u200c country music \u2064artists, our Veterans, and may God Bless\u2063 the USA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his \u200badvocacy, Greenwood shares details about his latest project, &#8220;Concerts 4 A Cause,&#8221;\u2062 on his website. The mission\u200b is to send 50,000 \u200cveterans to movie theaters across America for free on Veteran&#8217;s Day, where \u200bthey can enjoy a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-greenwood-warns-what-will-happen-if-cancel-culture-isnt-stopped\/\" title=\"Lee Greenwood warns of dire consequences if cancel culture continues unchecked.\">star-studded \u200dcountry concert<\/a>. More information can be \u2062found \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/adoptavet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Greenwood warns of America&#8217;s bleak future if artist cancellations persist. Jason Aldean faced backlash for his &#8220;Try That in a Small Town&#8221; video, accused of promoting lynching. The 80-year-old country music icon emphasizes the threat to freedom of expression in an op-ed titled &#8220;Cancel culture under attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1987251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987250","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}