Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: The GOP’s profligate use of “cancel culture” — like its use of “critical race theory” and “wokeness” — has turned the phrase into an all-purpose epithet to be flung at the left.
Hurling “cancel culture” is an attempt to prevent others from making moral judgments and holding people responsible for their bad conduct. It is risible for politicians to demand they escape the public’s judgment in a democratic system premised on voters’ ability to hold their leaders accountable.
In its report on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and other transgressions, the nonpartisan organization: “Absent accountability, false narratives perpetuated by political leaders harden, warping the public’s understanding of recent history. Wrongdoers, newly emboldened, recruit and mobilize others to adopt similar tactics.” In sum, “The absence of accountability is not neutrality, but affirmance: an invitation to wrongdoers to escalate wrongdoing and for others to follow suit.
So whether it comes from a foreign dictator, a predator in high political office, a defeated former president spreading lies about an election or a senator who voted to acquit that president for instigating an insurrection and extorting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the cry of “cancel culture” should set off alarm bells. Chances are, it’s a desperate attempt to escape the consequences of dreadful behavior.
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