// In the short amount of time I’ve written for Above the Law, I’ve gotten a couple of emails, occasionally sprinkled with the word “libtard,” that bemoan the Leviathan power wielded solely by left-wing media and Gen Z’ers with neopronouns: cancel culture. But that accusation has always struck me as odd, given that the first thing that comes to my mind is some dude bringing up Grimace to shut down conversations involving accountability when he gets caught doing a prejudice in public.

I don't care if you're black, white, green, purple, https://t.co/G26CJLNhas

— Kyle 🌱 (@KylePlantEmoji) February 12, 2020

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For the record, I do occasionally read right-wing media outlets — just for a bit of balance — and the things you can get canceled for on that side boggle my mind.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson is basically the next Supreme Court Justice. You know it, I know it, hell, Socrates probably does too. But nothing, and I mean nothing, is gonna prevent these snowflakes from looking up Hail Mary dirt to keep Justice Jackson from becoming a thing:

As Breitbart News previously reported, Jackson has made a note in her opinions to employ the term “noncitizen” or “undocumented non-citizens” rather than the terms “alien” or “illegal aliens” that are regularly used in court and in federal statutes.” SOURCE

American citizens who oppose judges abusing their power to assist illegal immigrant invaders and hardened criminals are encouraged to contact their US Senators, especially Susan Collins (R-ME), to oppose the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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The libs have been dragged through the mud for bringing up Booze McGee’s sexual conduct at his confirmation and Amy Coney Barrett’s lack of judicial experience at hers, but could you imagine the backlash if one of the arguments in the final hours before their confirmation was that they opted to use a way of referring to people that didn’t spring to mind Marvin the Martian? That level of gall and audacity is a right-wing affair through and through.

Aww, the coward deleted the original. Good thing the Internet never forgets… pic.twitter.com/ttIJ9WugUt

— Daniel Gwozdz (@wcvworg) December 6, 2019

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Have you ever really sat back and thought about what the political and interpersonal strategies of canceling would look like? Libertarianism is cancel culture’s ethos raised to an aesthetic ideal. No really, what are the myriad contemporary treatises on the virtues of Negative Liberty other than extended rants on policing who can or can’t do what and how cool armed revolution is when you don’t get your way? Those aren’t the words they use, it’s something more along these lines:

“Any act directed against a person, apart from the cases and without the forms determined by law, is arbitrary and tyrannical; if attempt is made to execute such act by force, the person who is the object thereof has the right to resist it by force.”

But let’s be clear, this lofty language gets applied to any and everything they don’t like: vaccine mandates, helmet laws, seat belt requirements, whatever – it’s like a defiant toddler read a bit of Ayn Rand and was let loose upon the world.

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Paleo-libertarians argue that vaccine mandates, taxes, and mask requirements aren’t just bad, they’re slavery.

But when it comes to whether it was wrong for white people to own black people, they’re a bit harder to pin down. pic.twitter.com/DNk7fPZziJ

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) September 9, 2021

In the spirit of balance, the next time a crowd member or two doesn’t sit idly by at a Yale talk where some dude defends state-sanctioned murder on the basis of gender or something, try not to make lefties the face of canceling? I mean it’s not like we’re the ones burning books or anything.

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Disqualified! Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Helps Illegal Alien Dealer [ Americansforlegalimmigration]

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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Breitbart, Cancel Culture, Courts, Free Speech, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Rhetoric, Snowflakes, Sophistry, Victimhood, Yale