Has cancel culture taken aim at your favorite comedian or action star? How about your college professor? The reality is there are no restraints on this culture driven by virtue signaling morality police who disagree with reality. Your educators will surely not be left out.
Writing puff pieces and making content about cancel culture is one thing, but actually doing something about cancel culture takes courage and strength. These institutional structures of pressure campaigns, like cancel culture, find ways to gain sympathy from those in power. This inevitably leads to those who are weak in power to bend the knee to the weak that have no power.
Just around 20% of U.S. adults have a Twitter account. The top 10% of U.S. tweeters are responsible for about 80% of the tweets in the U.S. So that miniscule amount of people who are active much more than the bottom 90% of tweeters have a larger hand in the pie when it comes to these ridiculous calls for people’s livelihoods to be hung and dried. That does not mean that whatever it is they’re complaining about should be addressed as if the entire country has chosen this. Since when did some thousands of mentally scalped social media addicted young people on the internet have the power to control societal aspects? Instead of listening to the weaklings of society who are hurt by words and can’t take nor understand jokes outside of internet memes, how about those in power just ignore them and see that ignoring these social justice warriors will barely affect their ventures and lives.
U.S. Twitter user data
Last week, comedian Bill Burr was getting canceled by the “woke” outrage Twitter mob for saying the name of a Latin Grammy winner incorrectly while presenting the award and joking about how “feminist are going nuts” about Burr mispronouncing the female winner’s name. Burr also joked and mocked the social justice warrior-led cancel culture institution, “Why is this cis-male doing all this Latino stuff,” Burr said on stage at the Grammys.
If one has their own following, like Burr, being disliked by a couple of thousand Twitter keyboard warriors with soft skin who are controlled by words and people won’t scratch the surface of Bill Burr’s armor and conscience.
Imagine being a college professor who doesn’t have a mass following around the country like an established comedian or actor does. Picture someone who is only trying to do good in the world by educating young people on history and implementing knowledge which has been conceived here on earth throughout thousands of years of existence.
Now imagine this person being cancelled and fired from the job that feeds their family because they said something or mentioned something from human history that was factually recorded that made a student feel offended. The student is offended at history and now hates the professor for speaking and educating about this aspect of history. Who is the troubled one in this situation?
There is a cancel culture problem heading in the direction of college educators. Luckily, in 2021, college educators came together and formed the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA), the protection of freedom of thought, inquiry, expression, and discussion.
Graph depicting leading countries in Twitter users
Educators and their life tasks of teaching young humans the ways of the past, present, and possible future are more important to the human race than any keyboard warrior choosing to or tricking themselves into being offended by anything that goes against any of their beliefs that probably aren’t their beliefs in the first place.
Members of the AFA come from many layers of the political spectrum and are united in committing to truth-seeking academics to combat any attack on academic freedom anywhere. The AFA pledges to defend the freedom of thought and expression for faculty in their fields of study and in their lives as citizens.
One of the main purposes of the AFA is to counteract the pressures on employers to take action against their employees whose views, statements, or teachings that may be disliked or disapproved by others. This alliance is ready to oppose the pressures from the government, college officials, and individuals or groups inside or outside these institutions. The idea of content is not endorsed, and the AFA is more about protecting faculty members’ right to state what they believe to be true and to be free from coercion or pressure to affirm what is contrary to their beliefs.
It is important that the educators of the young minds in the United States of America are protected from the grips of inexperienced younglings on the internet and in the classroom.
For more information, visit the Academic Freedom Alliance website: academicfreedom.org
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