Well, both seem to work on the principle of “cancellation” (one being purely abstract social, the other firmly physically social.) But the mechanism remains very very similar.
Admittedly I'm European, never heard of that case... but holy fuck if that is not a well-deserved "cancelling" I don't know what is. Literally calling for the extermination of Jews, PoC and fat people [1] - it's hard to get worse verbally.
In June 2020, when Minneapolis was rattled by the brutal custodial murder
of George Floyd and consequent Black Lives Matter protests, the Wadis
became avid supporters of the movement. They even showed their solidarity
by flaunting BLM banners from their stores as well as donating food
for free to demonstrators. In fact, Lianne herself marched in the BLM
protest rallies. However, Lianne's tweets from 2012, which she had even
deleted long back, mysteriously resurfaced around that time. The highly
offensive tweets portrayed racist sentiments against Black people and
the Jewish community. Some of her tweets were also blatantly homophobic
and body-shaming.
I dunno if it was well-deserved or not (what did the father do that merited the loss of 69 jobs?), but didn't someone famous say "The left always eats its own"?
The problem with the woke movement is that it's dominated by the extreme members[1], and the non-extreme members aren't allowed to speak up against the excesses of the movement anyway.
There is no forgiveness, there is no compromise, there is no leeway for nuance of thought. All together, that's a very dangerous movement; it's a movement where thought is forbidden, and we all saw how that turned out multiple times in history.
[1] Probably a very vocal minority, but with large impact when it comes to effects on people.
Please make an effort to understand the case properly, and the full ramifications. Yes her tweets (that she made as a teenager several years prior to her cancellation) were awful. But perhaps her father doesn't deserve to lose his livelihood along with dozens of his employees because of it.
Alex Jones is restricted from most mainstream media platforms; he is unlikely to ever attain a significant following again. He is unlikely to be able to purchase Internet access for his business, if it ever got big again. He is permanently consigned to irrelevancy.
The same goes for Donald Trump. After being banned from Twitter, Facebook, and any other platform, there is no chance of him ever being elected again. If he ran in 2024, the total information dominance his opponent would have is simply too strong.
