A Missouri gun store is refusing to sell guns and ammo to Biden voters. Oookaaaaay. I think it’s a rather dumb decision to deny service to 52% of the voting population, but hey, you do you.
I’m sure those on the right champion this decision, and that’s fine. I just wish their message was consistent. A baker doesn’t have to make your gay wedding cake, and the gun shop doesn’t have to sell you ammo.
A social media company also has the right to deny you service if your comments containing lies and hate violate their policies, but suddenly it’s censorship. Nah, sorry pal, you can’t have it both ways.
While I tend to think more restrictive policies only hurt businesses, especially the smaller ones, as consumers we have a choice to reward those companies whose values more closely align with ours, and to avoid those who do not.
The same goes for music, movies, and TV. I’m sure some people will think I’m going a bit overboard by filtering my viewing habits based on politics, but it’s actually easy for me since watching certain people I know hold horrific views makes it that much more easy to change the channel.
Take Tim Allen, for example. Before I knew he was a Trumper, I enjoyed Home Improvement, and the Santa Clause is a holiday classic in my opinion. Then he opened his mouth and it was all down hill from there.
He’s made comments comparing being a conservative in Hollywood to 1930’s Germany. That’s the conservative persecution complex on display. How about the analogy of trying to pull Trump out of the pilot’s seat because we don’t like how he’s flying the plane.
Let me clarify something for you Tim. We weren’t banging on the pilot’s door just because we didn’t like how he was flying the plane. (we didn’t, but that’s not all) It’s that he wasn’t flying it at all. He was in the plane toilet tweeting while watching Fox News while the plane was in a nose dive.
Then there was him calling out the hypocrisy of people calling Trump a bully, but then bullying Trump supporters. I’ll again loosely reference the paradox of tolerance here. If you tolerate bullying in a society, the bullies will destroy the tolerant. By the way, what a weeny. He’s basically saying he supports those who dish it out to the other side, but when it happens to his side he cries foul.
For those reasons and many more, I can’t watch him on screen anymore. It’s like when you see an attractive person, but then they end up having a horrible personality and they actually become physically unattractive to you in the process. That’s how I feel about Trump supporting entertainers.
It’s the same for Kid Rock. He had some good music back in the day, but meh, I don’t want to listen to him anymore. Luckily most other supporters are D list schmucks like Scott Baio, Rick Schroeder, John Voight, James Woods, Kirsty Alley, Ted Nugent, and Stacey Dash, so I don’t think my listening/viewing habits will be affected much by trying to avoid this cast of undesirables.
There’s nothing wrong with spending your time or money on products and services from groups that share your views. Just because it’s a buzz phrase these days doesn’t mean cancel culture hasn’t always existed. You as an individual can opt out of supporting bad actors (literally and metaphorically). It’s only when many individuals opt out of the same thing that suddenly cancel culture is to blame.
If you’re going to bitch about backlash after sharing your views, you might want to take a good long look in the mirror and ask yourself why so many people suddenly don’t want to support you, associate with you, or do business with you.
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