When you focus on the high healthcare costs and how they affect Americans as a whole, I empathize with your argument although you and I may disagree on the solution. When you engage in divisive rhetoric by playing identity politics, you start losing me.
The only interjection that I would like to make is on Americans who make $30,000 a year or less. Comparatively, they still live a more dignified life than most people in other countries.
The fact that you make this statement so nonchalantly astonishes me. Cancel culture partially exists because certain people feel "uncomfortable" by someone else's free speech so they pursue your livelihood, your expulsion of a community, and your reputation. The movement has become so extreme leading to the creation of "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate", which was signed by more than a hundred people, almost all of whom are liberals. In fact, some of the individuals who signed the letter are now being canceled. Of course. LOL.
I agree with classical liberal philosophy that states "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it", and trust me when I say that this thread has a multitude of loony, far-left thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Liberalism has changed as liberals flirt with authoritarian principles, which is precisely what cancel culture is.
The examples that you listed earlier in the thread along with what you're listing now are absolutely
not what I'm referring to when I and others in this thread speak of cancel culture.
You're talking about punishing dissenting opinions; I'm talking about collectively refusing to support people like FChamp, R. Kelly and others that engage in racist, abusive and other depraved behaviors. When people say or do racist/sexist/homophobic/abusive things, there are consequences that should rightly follow that extend beyond the limits of the legal system.
Don Imus couldn't be arrested for calling a group of Black female college athletes "nappy-headed hoes", but he damn sure could be cancelled for doing so.
Also, you really need to stop hyper-focusing on liberals - cancel culture was invented and pioneered by right-wing forces in this country nearly from its inception.
Let's not forget that Confederates literally cancelled their collective citizenship from America and actively fought against it all over the idea that Black people were inherently inferior, which was also the original example of identity politics.
The descendants of these Confederates went on to cancel the entire Democratic Party, labeling themselves "Dixiecrats" and then joined the Republican Party as a result of Black people obtaining civil rights.
Tomi Lahren was cancelled by a large number of her conservative audience after she dared to espouse the idea that government shouldn't be large enough to tell her what to do with her body in reference to abortion. Trump himself has used Twitter in order to get his loyal band of sycophants to cancel Fox News numerous times any time one of its segments is critical of him or pushes back against his falsehoods. And then, of course, you have racist NFL and NASCAR fans that cancel their sports program either because of players kneeling or because they cannot fly the Confederate Flag at the events.
Cancel-culture is alive and well on the Right and it is wholly disingenuous of anyone to pretend that it isn't. Anyone who steps out of far-right collective group-think dogma gets immediately and viciously cancelled.
But back to the original topic - nobody in this thread is calling for people with unpopular opinions to be cancelled simply by virtue of daring to be different; and I personally do not stand for that because dissent is an essential component of the advancement of democracy.
No, we advocate for the cancellation of anyone that espouses opinions that degrade groups of people based on the aforementioned distinctions.
We don't care if a person has a counter-cultural point of view, as long as it preserves everyone's inherent dignity - especially Black, Brown, LGTBQ, atheist and other marginalized peoples' dignity, as theirs has been under attack in this country the most.
The accountability-driven cancel culture that I and others are talking about is a direct response to these peoples' degradation at the hands of society; me, my wife, my friends, family and students all belong to these groups, and I'll be damned if I don't stand up for their right to be as free as the Constitution says they are supposed to be.
By fighting for these people, I am also fighting for everyone that isn't from a marginalized group also, because injustice anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.