A tough Substack piece by one Librarian Of Celaeno, that lays out for society what it means to play by the rules of the post-modern, post-working-class Left:

I wrote several notes over the last few days castigating various leftists for their evil and unhinged posts concerning Donald Trump. Some of the notes I referenced were from before the assassination attempt, some from after, but it mattered little as not much had changed in the basic outlook of the individuals I roasted in the meantime. They thought he was a fascist bent on destroying democracy before; they think it now. They all publicly wanted him jailed, ruined, and otherwise harmed, and privately (for some not so privately) they really just wanted him dead. They hated and continue to hate me and those who think in any way remotely similar to me. If you’re a regular reader of mine they hated you too and still do as well.
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I still think cancelling people is a bad thing.

He references the campaign of Libs of TikTok, who herself was subjected to doxxing and a massive cancel campaign that was celebrated by the Left Wing mob, and he certainly understands her deep anger, in the wake of the attempted assassination of Trump, at all these asshats who haven’t pulled back on the hate since. And so…

[LOTT’s campaign] to get firemen and Home Depot Workers fired from their jobs. The mob that used to come for people who put a thumbs-down on a rainbow flag photo or misgendered someone has now turned its attention to the enemies of Trump and MAGA.

Like this piece of work…

Home Depot fired her. The “Librarian” sums up the argument for the people pushing this fightback:

Better to teach them a lesson to prevent any and all future cancelling while we have the chance he and others say…Yes, it’s unpleasant that regular people get hurt, but the end result, a world where men are free to speak their minds, is worth the odd harm it causes to random normies. 

But he doesn’t agree with it, despite being a Christian Monarchist with decidely tough ideas on how free speech would be policed in his ideal society. With that background you’d think he’d be all for this retaliation, but he’s not:

In the first place, cancelling working normies accomplishes absolutely nothing in terms of killing the chicken to scare the monkey. They themselves have no power to cancel and no power to effect anyone else’s cancellation. No one has even accused the fireman and the Home Depot woman of themselves advocating cancellation in the past, so this isn’t even really any kind of vengeance.
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Cancellation is a particularly middle-class phenomenon, born of the insecurities of that class, and no one has the power to cancel but them. Getting working-class people fired from their jobs will barely register among the laptop class, who probably are more surprised that firemen have opinions than that they could be punished for them. Getting a woman terminated from Home Depot for her opinions is like getting mad at the New York Times and punching the paper boy. It’s the equivalent of the crowds of shrieking blue-hairs tearing down statues of men they would never have dared challenge while alive. It’s base, mean, and wrong.

As has been observed by Righties, Kancel Culture is actually a form of class warfare, and that’s exactly what he’s describing here.

What you may find entertaining to read is that he uses all this to riff on against Democratic societies, quoting from Democracy in America (De Tocqueville) to the more recent The Revolt of the Masses (Jose Ortega y Gasset) to argue that mobs and democracy go hand-in-hand and that he wants no part of it:

For the liberal and the leftist, it is the appropriate vehicle for their leveling ambitions, a force of un-nature to wreck those things too sturdy for any one person to strike down. The internet is perfect for mob formation, and for those classes who depend upon it for their livelihoods, for those whose sense of self depends upon the validation of others, and his fear of them.

And the kicker (he argues) is that because of this, there’s no point in ginning up your own mob to try to teach the Leftists a lesson so that they’ll stop destroying their enemies using Kancel Culture:

The idea of inspiring some fear in the leftist, some trauma, is moot. He exists in a state of traumatized terror already. The political is personal for him and that persona is neurotic, degenerate evil….They’ll never be afraid to cancel because it’s the weapon of the weak against the strong.

He does allow that he might support such a campaign if it actually threatened the people who led or enabled such mobs, like the ones involved with “A Rape on Campus” or Nick Sandeman from Covington High School.

Anyway, read the whole thing: a bit of philosophy for your Sunday.