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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his call to ban pro-Palestinian groups from Florida state colleges Sunday, after one of his Republican presidential primary opponents, Vivek Ramaswamy, slammed the demand as “a shameful political ploy.”

“It’s unconstitutional. It’s utter hypocrisy for someone who railed against left-wing cancel culture,” Ramaswamy posted on X (formerly Twitter) Thursday, alleging that it violates students’ right to free speech.

DeSantis held firm Sunday.

“This is not cancel culture. This group, they themselves said, in the aftermath of the Hamas attack, that they don’t just stand in solidarity that they are part of this Hamas movement,” DeSantis said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"This group, they themselves said, in the aftermath of the [shooting], that they don’t just stand in solidarity that they are part of this Christian nationalist movement." Sound familiar?

But do go off about how it's not what you called "cancel culture."

Edit: To be clear, I'm aware that cancel culture is just "moderation" rebranded to scare right wing idiots into a tribal mindset.

[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's cancel culture when it happens to them. When they do it, it's called boycotting.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Except that's not really how boycotting works when they do dumb shit like buy shoes just to set them on fire.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, cancel culture is real. They are the primary ones that wield it. They simply call being held responsible, cancel culture in an effort to distract everyone from that fact.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Very true. Just like they are the biggest proponents of political correctness. The actual kind, not the basic human decency they have rebranded as "political correctness". Just see how they behave if someone does not do the right thing around a piece of cloth (flag) or when someone violates expected rituals done when a certain song is played (anthem) at a....checks notes....sportsball game.

Same thing for their accusations of others being emotional, being a snowflake, engaging in culture wars and so on.

It's always projection with them.