Cancel Culture is Simply Unamerican

The continued observance of cancel culture is an un-American illegal act that is not consistent with American customs, principles, or traditions. It is illegal to cancel coworkers at work. ?The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights expressly prohibit cancel culture, as all women and men are created equally under the eyes of the law.

The solution to cancel culture has always remained front and center, but recently intentionally obscured by the noise of the cancel culture movement itself and by omission in the press and by governmental representatives trying to curry votes. Simply, we all need a large dose of Latin, audi alteram partem which translates into listening to the other side. ? Why? ? Integral to our American experience is the action of debate. ? We never said you had to agree with your opponent, just listen and possibly learn. ?We enact laws in Congress and through state legislatures via heated debate on difficult public policy concerns. But we get the job done because of a higher calling- democracy.

On the federal level, the following laws make it a federal crime to cancel other employees because of actual or perceived religion, race, color, religion and national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. ? Yes, you can go to jail if you cancel someone, either in person or through social media.?

The Shepard Byrd Act makes it a federal crime to willfully cause bodily injury, or attempt to do so using a dangerous weapon, because of the victim’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin. The Act also extends federal hate crime prohibitions to crimes committed because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person, only where the crime affected interstate or foreign commerce or occurred within federal special maritime and territorial jurisdiction. ?The Shepard-Byrd Act is the first statute allowing federal criminal prosecution of hate crimes motivated by the victim’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.

As with America’s Red Scare, the Salem Witch trials, and modern cancel culture, the crux of the problem was that there was no guarantee of due process, no hard-set burden of proof or intent to be met and no actual way to prove innocence. Once hauled in front of the court, the accused had only the option to confess, repent and face punishment or be tortured until they confessed or were killed.?