It turns out conservatives like cancel culture after all!
In case you haven't noticed, one fallout from the Charlie Kirk assassination is that it’s given our future leaders of Gilead a good smoke screen to try and criminalize political speech they don’t like, because you know, freedom!
Yep, please keep your hate speech to yourself, everyone. You need to remain calm, courteous and civil like President Trump, otherwise you’ll go to re-education jail!
One big reason for the right’s attempt to now crack down on free speech is that they’re authoritarian hypocrites with fluctuating values that rely on what’s convenient for them. The other is – let’s be honest – some folks on the left did give them a good excuse for a crackdown.
Instead of solemnly paying their respects to the young father of two who was murdered by a weirdo lazy-eyed psycho, questioning his martyrdom, or simply keeping their thoughts confined to group texts, they celebrated the assassination on social media like SEAL Team 6 took out Osama Bin Laden.
Some, like this vet in Edmond, even openly called for more executions!
Yikes. That’s pretty awful! I think it’s fair to criticize the right’s attempt to embellish and canonize Kirk’s life, and give him the Horst Wessel treatment, but that takes things way too far.
Not even Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes or Ryan Walters deserve to die for the defamatory lies and division they sow. Violence – especially of the genocidal political eugenics variety – is never the answer!
Naturally, the vet’s tweet quickly bounced its way around the social media echo chamber, eventually landing in the decrypted hands of the Lara Loomers, Libs of TikTok, and other online right-wing psychopaths of the world.
From there, the predictable cycle of online threats, doxxing, shaming, and accidental targeting of similarly named businesses in other states ensued. One local guy made a banner of Rispoli’s comments and placed it along a random road in North OKC:
Via a Steve Lackmeyer article in The Oklahoman:
Wellston resident Devin Shipman drew a crowd of supporters in north Oklahoma City Friday when he decided to create a large banner sharing a controversial Facebook post by veterinarian Chris Rispoli that Shipman and others say advocates further violence following the assassination of conservative Charlie Kirk…
Shipman showed up to protest without making any threats against Rispoli. Those who stopped and joined him outside the clinic at 2301 NW 178 remained peaceful. He and those joining him at the Sept. 12 protest say the post went too far by advocating violence against other right-wing voices like Kirk.
“It struck me that it was a terrible comment to make at a terrible time,” Shipman said. “I saved it at the time, and I didn’t really plan on making a poster of it at the time. But I continued to stew on it. I saw that it was deleted, and I didn’t want him to be able to hide from his words.”
As a guy who has navigated several cancel culture attempts from both the left and the right over the years, I’m generally opposed to the practice. Protect your own self-interests, right?
That being said, if you want to go to the expense of printing a large color banner of someone’s controversial Facebook post, place it near the street, and then stand in front of it all day waving at cars, I can respect that. Sure, I’m more of a leave-a-negative-review and like-some-social-media-posts cancel culture kind of guy, but you do you.
So far, it does look like the cancel culture campaign is working.
Rispoli has made many right-wing blacklists that will continue to haunt him over the years, and he even lost his business partner.
A man identifying himself as Matthew Baker, another veterinarian at Rispoli’s clinic, posted his own Facebook message announcing he cut ties with Gentle Care Animal Clinic and that the comments made by “others associated with the clinic” do not reflect his views and values.
Yep, that’s right! Light the candle in the waiting room and grab a box of tissues! That vet’s practice is being put to sleep!
Well, at least it is for now.
One thing we’ve learned about online cancel culture is that it seems to have a short memory. You can be hot, hated and cancelable today and totally forgotten tomorrow. People will quickly find something new to print giant banners about in an effort to use someone else’s own words to sanctimoniously receive attention, praise and affirmation. Or something like that.
Anyway, we’d like to congratulate conservative cancel culture for this solid win, and wish them the best of luck…
A) Ruining someone else’s life and career over stupid, off-the-cuff comments they made late at night on social media after a public figure they hated was assassinated in Utah, or
B) Decrying cancel culture when one of their own is cancelled over offensive remarks.
Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
