GOP/National Conservatives engaging in 1st-Amendment-violating cancelling isn't surprising.

After all, Ray Cohn was Trump's mentor, and Ray Cohn worked for Joseph McCarthy to blacklist gay people and enemies in what we call McCarthyism.

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

#politics #conservatism #Mcarthyism #JimmyKimmel #DonaldTrump #RoyCohn #JosephMcCarthy #CancelCulture #1stAmendment #FreeSpeech

Throwing a dead cat onto the dining table

How the Harvard and UPenn presidents were trapped into hypothetical questions while the potential dangers of genocide in Gaza were ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/the-harvard-and-upenn-presidents-walked-into-a-trap-in-congress

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #US #genocide #warcrimes #McArthyism

The Harvard and UPenn presidents walked into a trap in Congress

The presidents were asked about non-existent calls for genocide on American campuses, while the potential dangers of genocide in Gaza were ignored

The Guardian

#mcarthyism (the Kevin kind) should be a synonym for “cravenness”

#speaker #gop #mccarthy