Tag: Cancel Culture

• Hari-Kari

  

  Ooer, Matron – somebody’s put sand in the motion lotion, and Ofcom have pulled out of Stonewall’s tight squeeze on the nation’s current subservience to LGBTadinfinitim+ However, what is happening within Stonewall is nothing new. Factions have pressed for a change in direction and focus on policy, which will inevitably have consequences. The broader the…

  Max Frances

  Aug 27, 2021

  Society

  Activism, Cancel Culture, Feminism, Gender, LGBT, Ofcom, Politics, Pride, Sex, Slacktivism, Stonewall, Virtue Signalling

• Dodgy Motifs

  

  Mr Jarel Robinson-Brown, a trainee man of the cloth, has landed himself in hot holy water after adding his mites to the opinion collection in the wake of Captain Tom’s earthly departure: ‘The cult of Captain Tom is a cult of White British Nationalism. I will offer prayers for the repose of his kind and…

  Max Frances

  Feb 9, 2021

  Courts, Religion, Social Media, Society

  Cancel Culture, Captain Tom, Church, Church of England, Freedom of Speech, Jarel Robinson-Brown, Offence Culture, Police, Scotland, Social Media, Tweet, Twitter, Virtue Signalling

• Slacking Off

  

  Ever wondered why the struggle for autism rights is like pushing water uphill with a fork? Look no further than the scorched-earth, slacktivist absolutism of self-centred, butthurt, keyboard warriors. I found this out when I had the temerity to question the vitriolic criticism of a film that none of the froth-mouthed slogan-jockeys had even watched.…

  Max Frances

  Nov 23, 2020

  Films, Society

  Activism, Autism, Black Lives Matter, Cancel Culture, Disability, Equality, Inequality, Music, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Sia, Slacktivism, Social Media, Twitter, Virtue Signalling

• Give Us a Break

  

  ‘I’m taking a break from Twitter‘, say an increasingly hefty swathe of Tweeters. Typically, this is coupled with a reference to the essential preservation of mental health. This must be an affliction of the new millennium. Even an exercise in withdrawing from the social scene ostensibly to avoid the spotlight morphs into a supplementary attention-seeking…

  Max Frances

  Sep 7, 2020

  Politics, Society, Writing

  Cancel Culture, Censorship, Charlatans, Mental Health, Millennials, Online, Politics, Snowflakes, Social Media, Society, Trolls, Twitter, Virtue Signalling

• Building a Fence

  

  I’m offended. Well, I’m not, but it seems that wherever you look, somebody is. Many whip out the offence card in an attempt to magic up come sort of legitimate censorship. Nobody has a right not to be offended and if they genuinely are, it doesn’t mean that they are either right or have the…

  Max Frances

  Jul 27, 2020

  Society

  Cancel Culture, Censorship, Liberal Elite, Offence Culture, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Power, Psychology, Racism, Social Justice Warriors, Social Media, Virtue Signalling

• New Flack City

  

  It looks like a fraught debate about cancel culture is raging. Now I’m sufficiently sage to appreciate the apocryphal source of the term, having watched New Jack City back in the day. I say back in the day; it was actually around 2008, when I had a penchant for the 4 ex-rental DVDs for £10…

  Max Frances

  Jul 10, 2020

  Society

  Black Lives Matter, BLM, Business, Cancel Culture, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Liberal Elite, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Social Media, Virtue Signalling, Woke, Wokedom, Wokeness