Democrats finally have a consensus on a statement from Vladimir Putin after years of insisting that he should not be heard and that his statements are meant to divide the country. The Russian leader had to conform to a preferred liberal narrative. His word was instantly solid gold.
You see, Putin talked about cancel culture, and that must mean that cancel culture isn’t real and is just made up by the right-wing in America. Never take Putin’s statements at face price. If he does something that makes it possible for Democrats to claim victory on an internal political issue, then that is fine.
Putin rails against cancel culture in the West and compares it with Nazi Germany’s practices. He also embraces a grievance that is shared by many Americans on the American Right. @antontroian https://t.co/dLxolr2M1q
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 25, 2022
Dems: “Everything Putin says is propaganda and is meant to divide. You are his puppet if you don’t dismiss it all.”
Putin: “They are out here trying to cancel me, just look at JK Rowling.”
Dems: “Putin’s word is infallible and must be believed.” pic.twitter.com/CDKZqvrEGm
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 26, 2022
Now, to be sure, Putin’s citation of cancel culture is ludicrous. No one is trying to “cancel” the Russian leader by any accepted definition of the term. Rather, cancel culture typically denotes the targeting of someone’s employment based on something they previously said or did completely unrelated to their current situation. That often manifests by digging up old, less-than-politically correct tweets or by taking someone’s statements from a decade ago out of context. Putin invading foreign countries under false pretenses. We can safely conclude he doesn’t qualify because he’s being targeted based on what he’s currently doing, not some long past, manufactured transgression.
Given that, if Putin’s modus operandi is to make political statements in order to divide his enemies, doesn’t it seem obvious that his mention of cancel culture was designed to goad Democrats into claiming Republicans are somehow in league with the Russian leader? The Democrats took the bait, and they were not disappointed.
Regardless, even if Putin is being sincere (he’s not), who cares? Who are you familiar with who loved dogs? Adolf Hitler liked dogs. Is that a bad thing? Putin bringing up cancel culture does not at all qualify as evidence that it doesn’t exist. This is absurd. We have plenty of real-world examples that cancel culture has had real and negative effects on real people. That doesn’t change just because Putin said something about J.K. Rowling and the transgender controversy she’s battled.
Let’s ask ourselves, in the end, who are the true Putin puppets? This is a claim that the left has made towards the right. Are they those who hold the same beliefs no matter what Russian leader claims? Or are they those who accept the Russian leader’s word as gospel when it supports one of their political narratives That is a question that I believe we all have an answer to.
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