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1. John Gibson
Gibson, the former president of American gaming studio Tripwire Interactive, became a victim of the petulant mob when he lost his job for tweeting in support of Texasâ new pro-life legislation.
âProud of #USSupremeCourt affirming the Texas law banning abortion for babies with a heartbeat,â Gibson tweeted earlier this month, âAs an entertainer I donât get political often. Yet with so many vocal peers on the other side of this issue, I felt it was important to go on the record as a pro-life game developer.â Less than three days later, Gibson was cancelled.
âThe comments given by John Gibson are of his own opinion, and do not reflect those of Tripwire Interactive as a company,â read a statement by Tripwire interactive announcing Gibsonâs departure. âHis comments disregarded the values of our whole team, our partners and much of our broader community.â
2. Nathan Silvester
Silvester was a police officer working in Bellevue, Idaho, who was fired after he posted a TikTok mocking NBA star LeBron James for his statements following the death of MaâKhia Bryant. After Bryant, a 16-year-old black girl, was fatally shot by a white police officer in southeast Columbus, Ohio, James tweeted a photo of the officer with the caption âYouâre next. #accountability,â per CNN.
After Silvesterâs TikTok clip went viral, he was suspended for a week without pay, pending further investigation.
3. Scott Cawthon
Cawthon was the creator of the hugely successful âFive Nights at Freddyâsâ video game series who was cancelled in June after fans decided to search Open Secrets, a website that lists political donations, for information regarding his campaign contributions. When it was revealed that Cawthon had donated money to several Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump, calls for him to retire began to circulate online.
Initially, Cawthon tried to weather the storm, and refused to apologize, posting, âIâm a Republican. Iâm a Christian. Iâm pro-life. I believe in God,â Cawthon continued, âI also believe in equality, and in science, and in common sense. Despite what some may say, all of those things can go together. Thatâs not an apology or promise to change, itâs the way itâs always been.â
Eventually the pressure became too much, and Cawthon announced that he would be leaving the series. âI miss making games for my kids, I miss doing it just for fun ⌠All of this is to say that I am retiring.â
4. David Flynn
Flynn was the popular head football coach at Dedham High School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Flynn and his wife sent an email to school officials expressing their concern that their daughterâs world geography and history classes contained curriculum and materials that were unrelated to the topics and were inherently political.
Per the Washington Free Beacon, âMiddle school history teacher Kim Randall created an avatar of herself for her online classroom that wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt and used materials that depicted police officers as ârisksâ to black people and black people as ârisksâ to white people.â After a series of meetings with the schoolâs superintendent and committee members, Flynn and his wife decided the best course of action would be to move their two children from the school district and send them to a private Catholic school.
Flynn lost his job in January when he was told that his contract would not be renewed, with school officials citing âsignificant philosophical differences.â Flynn said that he had ânever been provided any indicationâ that he would be fired.
5. Gina Carano
Carano was fired from her leading role on Disney and Lucasfilmâs âThe Mandalorianâ after the actress posted a story on her Instagram comparing the current political climate to Nazi Germany.
Lucasfilm cut ties with the actress, writing in a statement, âGina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.â
Caranoâs fans were quick to point out her outspokenly leftist costar Pedro Pascal had shared a meme comparing the Trump administrationâs immigration policies to Nazi concentration camps, yet was able to keep his job.
6. Kieran Bhattacharya
Bhattacharya was a student at the University of Virginia School of Medicine who was banned from campus after he questioned a speakerâs definition of microaggressions during a panel discussion.
After an assistant professor logged a complaint about Bhattacharyaâs questions during the panel, an administrator mandated that he get counseling before being able to return to class. When Bhattacharya refused, he was suspended and barred from returning to campus, Reason reported.
Bhattacharya is now suing the school for violating his First Amendment rights.
7. Ryan Anderson
Anderson is the author of the bestselling book âWhen Harry Became Sally,â which details the rise in transgender and LGBT ideology in the U.S. The book that was removed from Amazonâs digital marketplace after the company claimed it framed âLGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.â In a statement made to The Daily Signal, Anderson argued against this accusation, stating âThe phrase âmental illnessâ does occur in the book twiceâbut not in my own voice: once quoting a âtranswomanâ writing in The New York Times, and once quoting the current University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.â
The book is still unavailable on Amazon.
8. Kate Hartson
Hartson was the editorial director of the Center Street imprint, a conservative publishing entity under the larger Hachette Book Group umbrella. She was known for buying the rights to publish books by controversial figures associated with former president Donald Trump, including his son Donald Trump Jr. and Corey Lewandowski. As more and more liberals within print media began expressing their resentment toward the former president and all things associated with him, views like Hartsonâs became more unwelcome.
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Hachette shifted focus and promised âno hate speech, no incitement to violence, no false narratives,â as reported by the New York Times.
Coincidentally, it was slightly before Hachette made this announcement to their team that Hartson was fired.
9. Austin Tong
Tong was a student at Fordham University in New York who came under fire for a series of social media posts he made that went against leftist orthodoxy, as reported by the Fordham Observer.
During last summerâs riots, Tong posted a photo of the slain retired police captain David Dorn, a black man who died while responding to a looting in St. Louis, Missouri, along with the caption, âYâall a bunch of hypocrites,â referencing the fact that Dornâs death didnât spark the same amount of outcry among protestors as other high-profile deaths.
The day after, Tong posted an image of himself wielding a gun captioned, âDonât tread on me. #198964.â June 4, 1989, is the date of the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre. For Tong, a Chinese immigrant, the photo was a symbol of resistance to tyranny. As a result of the photo and social media posts, Tong was banned from coming to Fordhamâs campus without permission, and barred from joining any extracurriculars. As part of Tongâs punishment, he was told he had to complete a series of implicit bias trainings.
Tong is currently suing the school for violating his First Amendment rights, per The Fire.
10. Peter Vlaming
Vlaming was a French teacher at West Point High School in Virginia who was fired for not using a transgender studentâs preferred pronouns. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Vlaming said, âI explained to my principal that I couldnât in good conscience pronounce masculine pronouns to refer to a girl. He gave me an official written reprimand that said it was the first step in a process that would lead to my termination.â
Eventually, the West Point School Board voted unanimously to fire Vlaming. The former French teacher is currently bringing his case to the Virginia Supreme Court, per Christian Broadcasting Network.
11. Timothy Gordon
Gordon was a teacher at Garces Memorial High School, a private, Catholic school in Bakersfield, California, and is the author of the book âCatholic Republic: Why America Will Perish Without Rome.â He was fired from his job after he made comments critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, specifically calling it a terrorist organization. After his comments became more widely known, there was fierce pushback from the other members of the Garces Memorial staff. A petition demanding Gordonâs termination began making its rounds throughout the school, leading to his eventual firing.
âBlack Lives Matter themselves say they are a threat to Western family structure, namely the Christian family structure,â Gordon said in an interview with British magazine The Spectator.
12. Adrianna San Marco
San Marco was a student at Syracuse University in New York who lost her job writing for her local newspaper after she wrote an op-ed piece for another conservative outlet denying the existence of institutional racism and that police unfairly targeted black people, as reported by Fox News. San Marcoâs former editor-in-chief, Casey Darnell, argued that âDismissing the existence of racism, whether institutional or otherwise, dismisses the lived experiences of people of color, especially our black community members,â and that âSan Marcoâs article reinforces false and dangerous stereotypes of Black people as criminals, and dismisses that police officers kill black people at disproportionately higher rates than white people.â
In a Fox News interview conducted after her firing, San Marco stood by her piece, saying, âNow more than ever I feel confident in my views and research. There is nothing I would have done differently. I stand by my analysis.â
www.dailysignal.com
This is anecdotal, I know that. But does anyone want to list a few cases where a Lefty got canned for espousing his/her views? Does anyone want to claim that the Cancel Culture as shown above is overhyped? It seems as though I've seen numerous stories like these where somebody got cancelled for their conservative opinions, which they and everyone else is allowed to have and to express. I'm not going to claim that liberal progressives are not discriminated against, but I would wager that in most of those cases the LP forced the issue to make a scene, ala Jussie Smollett.
Gibson, the former president of American gaming studio Tripwire Interactive, became a victim of the petulant mob when he lost his job for tweeting in support of Texasâ new pro-life legislation.
âProud of #USSupremeCourt affirming the Texas law banning abortion for babies with a heartbeat,â Gibson tweeted earlier this month, âAs an entertainer I donât get political often. Yet with so many vocal peers on the other side of this issue, I felt it was important to go on the record as a pro-life game developer.â Less than three days later, Gibson was cancelled.
âThe comments given by John Gibson are of his own opinion, and do not reflect those of Tripwire Interactive as a company,â read a statement by Tripwire interactive announcing Gibsonâs departure. âHis comments disregarded the values of our whole team, our partners and much of our broader community.â
2. Nathan Silvester
Silvester was a police officer working in Bellevue, Idaho, who was fired after he posted a TikTok mocking NBA star LeBron James for his statements following the death of MaâKhia Bryant. After Bryant, a 16-year-old black girl, was fatally shot by a white police officer in southeast Columbus, Ohio, James tweeted a photo of the officer with the caption âYouâre next. #accountability,â per CNN.
After Silvesterâs TikTok clip went viral, he was suspended for a week without pay, pending further investigation.
3. Scott Cawthon
Cawthon was the creator of the hugely successful âFive Nights at Freddyâsâ video game series who was cancelled in June after fans decided to search Open Secrets, a website that lists political donations, for information regarding his campaign contributions. When it was revealed that Cawthon had donated money to several Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump, calls for him to retire began to circulate online.
Initially, Cawthon tried to weather the storm, and refused to apologize, posting, âIâm a Republican. Iâm a Christian. Iâm pro-life. I believe in God,â Cawthon continued, âI also believe in equality, and in science, and in common sense. Despite what some may say, all of those things can go together. Thatâs not an apology or promise to change, itâs the way itâs always been.â
Eventually the pressure became too much, and Cawthon announced that he would be leaving the series. âI miss making games for my kids, I miss doing it just for fun ⌠All of this is to say that I am retiring.â
4. David Flynn
Flynn was the popular head football coach at Dedham High School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Flynn and his wife sent an email to school officials expressing their concern that their daughterâs world geography and history classes contained curriculum and materials that were unrelated to the topics and were inherently political.
Per the Washington Free Beacon, âMiddle school history teacher Kim Randall created an avatar of herself for her online classroom that wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt and used materials that depicted police officers as ârisksâ to black people and black people as ârisksâ to white people.â After a series of meetings with the schoolâs superintendent and committee members, Flynn and his wife decided the best course of action would be to move their two children from the school district and send them to a private Catholic school.
Flynn lost his job in January when he was told that his contract would not be renewed, with school officials citing âsignificant philosophical differences.â Flynn said that he had ânever been provided any indicationâ that he would be fired.
5. Gina Carano
Carano was fired from her leading role on Disney and Lucasfilmâs âThe Mandalorianâ after the actress posted a story on her Instagram comparing the current political climate to Nazi Germany.
Lucasfilm cut ties with the actress, writing in a statement, âGina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.â
Caranoâs fans were quick to point out her outspokenly leftist costar Pedro Pascal had shared a meme comparing the Trump administrationâs immigration policies to Nazi concentration camps, yet was able to keep his job.
6. Kieran Bhattacharya
Bhattacharya was a student at the University of Virginia School of Medicine who was banned from campus after he questioned a speakerâs definition of microaggressions during a panel discussion.
After an assistant professor logged a complaint about Bhattacharyaâs questions during the panel, an administrator mandated that he get counseling before being able to return to class. When Bhattacharya refused, he was suspended and barred from returning to campus, Reason reported.
Bhattacharya is now suing the school for violating his First Amendment rights.
7. Ryan Anderson
Anderson is the author of the bestselling book âWhen Harry Became Sally,â which details the rise in transgender and LGBT ideology in the U.S. The book that was removed from Amazonâs digital marketplace after the company claimed it framed âLGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.â In a statement made to The Daily Signal, Anderson argued against this accusation, stating âThe phrase âmental illnessâ does occur in the book twiceâbut not in my own voice: once quoting a âtranswomanâ writing in The New York Times, and once quoting the current University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.â
The book is still unavailable on Amazon.
8. Kate Hartson
Hartson was the editorial director of the Center Street imprint, a conservative publishing entity under the larger Hachette Book Group umbrella. She was known for buying the rights to publish books by controversial figures associated with former president Donald Trump, including his son Donald Trump Jr. and Corey Lewandowski. As more and more liberals within print media began expressing their resentment toward the former president and all things associated with him, views like Hartsonâs became more unwelcome.
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Hachette shifted focus and promised âno hate speech, no incitement to violence, no false narratives,â as reported by the New York Times.
Coincidentally, it was slightly before Hachette made this announcement to their team that Hartson was fired.
9. Austin Tong
Tong was a student at Fordham University in New York who came under fire for a series of social media posts he made that went against leftist orthodoxy, as reported by the Fordham Observer.
During last summerâs riots, Tong posted a photo of the slain retired police captain David Dorn, a black man who died while responding to a looting in St. Louis, Missouri, along with the caption, âYâall a bunch of hypocrites,â referencing the fact that Dornâs death didnât spark the same amount of outcry among protestors as other high-profile deaths.
The day after, Tong posted an image of himself wielding a gun captioned, âDonât tread on me. #198964.â June 4, 1989, is the date of the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre. For Tong, a Chinese immigrant, the photo was a symbol of resistance to tyranny. As a result of the photo and social media posts, Tong was banned from coming to Fordhamâs campus without permission, and barred from joining any extracurriculars. As part of Tongâs punishment, he was told he had to complete a series of implicit bias trainings.
Tong is currently suing the school for violating his First Amendment rights, per The Fire.
10. Peter Vlaming
Vlaming was a French teacher at West Point High School in Virginia who was fired for not using a transgender studentâs preferred pronouns. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Vlaming said, âI explained to my principal that I couldnât in good conscience pronounce masculine pronouns to refer to a girl. He gave me an official written reprimand that said it was the first step in a process that would lead to my termination.â
Eventually, the West Point School Board voted unanimously to fire Vlaming. The former French teacher is currently bringing his case to the Virginia Supreme Court, per Christian Broadcasting Network.
11. Timothy Gordon
Gordon was a teacher at Garces Memorial High School, a private, Catholic school in Bakersfield, California, and is the author of the book âCatholic Republic: Why America Will Perish Without Rome.â He was fired from his job after he made comments critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, specifically calling it a terrorist organization. After his comments became more widely known, there was fierce pushback from the other members of the Garces Memorial staff. A petition demanding Gordonâs termination began making its rounds throughout the school, leading to his eventual firing.
âBlack Lives Matter themselves say they are a threat to Western family structure, namely the Christian family structure,â Gordon said in an interview with British magazine The Spectator.
12. Adrianna San Marco
San Marco was a student at Syracuse University in New York who lost her job writing for her local newspaper after she wrote an op-ed piece for another conservative outlet denying the existence of institutional racism and that police unfairly targeted black people, as reported by Fox News. San Marcoâs former editor-in-chief, Casey Darnell, argued that âDismissing the existence of racism, whether institutional or otherwise, dismisses the lived experiences of people of color, especially our black community members,â and that âSan Marcoâs article reinforces false and dangerous stereotypes of Black people as criminals, and dismisses that police officers kill black people at disproportionately higher rates than white people.â
In a Fox News interview conducted after her firing, San Marco stood by her piece, saying, âNow more than ever I feel confident in my views and research. There is nothing I would have done differently. I stand by my analysis.â
Cancel Culture Examples: 12 Conservatives Canceled by the Left
Cancel culture runs rampant in todayâs America. Here are 12 examples of people who were targeted for voicing a conservative view.
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This is anecdotal, I know that. But does anyone want to list a few cases where a Lefty got canned for espousing his/her views? Does anyone want to claim that the Cancel Culture as shown above is overhyped? It seems as though I've seen numerous stories like these where somebody got cancelled for their conservative opinions, which they and everyone else is allowed to have and to express. I'm not going to claim that liberal progressives are not discriminated against, but I would wager that in most of those cases the LP forced the issue to make a scene, ala Jussie Smollett.
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