Not that long ago, we were decrying cancel culture as evil, and it was.
The left wielded it as a way to destroy lives based purely on anything from political disagreement to following Christ. You all know the story of the Colorado baker whom members of the LGBTQ+ and Colorado Democrats waged war against for simply refusing to bake a gay wedding cake.
Or perhaps you remember the story of Memories Pizza in Indiana, a place attacked by the left relentlessly to the point of having to close their doors because a local reporter sought them out and had them answer the "Would you cater a gay wedding?" question, to which the family said they couldn't due to their faith.
During this era, when cancel culture was rampant, wielded almost exclusively by the left, there was a palpable fear that you could be next at any moment, and for any reason. Businesses and corporations were afraid of becoming the next organization in the crosshairs. Universities would cave to radical leftist students to avoid protests, riots, and violence. It was a dark time for society.
But society pushed back, and soon, the left lost its power of fear to control people, at least to a far greater extent. In fact, I'd mark the resistance against cancel culture as one of the true beginnings of the modern left's decline in power.
After Charlie Kirk's murder, the weapon was picked back up, but this time by conservatives, and I'd even argue, those in the center. Members of the left began openly celebrating Charlie's death, and as people dug into who they were, they found many interesting things. They weren't nobodies. They were teachers, city officials, nurses, mental health experts, and creators employed by major studios.
My colleague Rusty Weiss reported on one such person having their entire comic book run of Red Hood (a Batman character) at DC canceled for her grotesque celebration of Charlie's murder.
Read: DC Comics Cancels Batman Spinoff After Writer’s Sickening Posts Mocking Charlie Kirk’s Death Surface
This is fantastic news, as it not only gives DC comics back some of its long-lost credibility but also keeps an actual hateful bigot out of the cultural space. Not only is the possible influence diminished, but it also results in a better product.
I can go through the Libs of TikTok account on X right now and see a myriad of examples of people in surprising positions saying absolutely awful things, and the people demanding they be removed from their positions, not just because of how awful they are, but because this kind of hate in those kinds of positions is dangerous.
I won't post them all, but you'll find that a lot of them are school teachers, and I shudder to think of how many of them were actively attempting to influence people's children to be just as hateful and bigoted as they were.
One is even a school counselor.
Meet Billie Jean Miller.
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 12, 2025
She’s a guidance counselor for Susquehannock High School in York County, PA.
“Not all people who kill others are mentally ill.”
This is the woman counseling your kids.
Get on the phones immediately first thing tomorrow.
📍Glen Rock, Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/iM2lTXkN7I
As Libs of TikTok points out, some of these schools are taking action, placing teachers on leave, or even firing them.
One such person highlighted was a nurse who is now being investigated.
BREAKING UPDATE: @uvahealthnews claims the nurses' comments "do not reflect the views of UVA Health" but say they will not publicly comment on "HR matters."
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 12, 2025
She needs to be fired.
Nobody feels safe getting care from someone like this! https://t.co/PIV1JresgZ pic.twitter.com/1vzShLmhGC
The sudden taste of their own medicine is naturally not sitting well with the left, and the media is already crying out in anger and rage as they watch their influence and footholds diminish by the day.
Rolling Stone, for instance, released an article making it all seem so awful for the left, and sought to call out the hypocrisy of what the right was doing. It tried to make the point that this isn't what Charlie would've wanted:
Calls for these punitive actions hardly appear in line with Kirk’s purported philosophy of open discussion and absolutist protections for incendiary or offensive speech. Suddenly, however, a MAGA coalition that has long insisted on their right to demonize and threaten marginalized communities, joke and fantasize about violent attacks on their enemies, and push conspiracy theories to justify an authoritarian agenda is outraged that other Americans would dare to voice their contempt for a slain hero of reactionary conservatism. As ever, the hypocrisy is no less galling for being entirely predictable.
I'm going to stop it there and explain to Rolling Stone, and indeed the left, why this is different.
Rolling Stone was one of those entities that engaged in cancel culture to the point where it destroyed the lives of a group of young men over a false rape allegation. They had no reason to do this except to reinforce an ideological position that they helped create: that men were rapists in waiting and campuses were unsafe for women.
These men were, of course, innocent, and the figure the article was centered around, a girl named "Jackie," ended up being found out as a massive liar. In the end, Rolling Stone harmed innocent people because they thought they could and ended up being sued, slapped around by society, and wound up in the for-sale bin.
What Rolling Stone did was a solid representation of the left's cancel culture attacks around that time. Destroying innocent people over a simple disagreement, which the left has gone from canceling people to killing them.
What's happening now is not similar. We're removing people who are celebrating the murder of an innocent man simply because they disagree with him. They painted him with a false brush, telling themselves stories they want to believe to justify the blood spilled and even take pleasure in it.
This is evil, and evil needs to be removed from positions of influence and power.
And to be clear, we're not removing anyone over simple political disagreement. You can believe the opposite of what Charlie believed or have nuanced takes. Disagreement isn't the issue; it's the glorification of murder based on political opinion.
If you hold that killing someone is justified because you don't like what they have to say, then you don't need to be in a position where someone's health and care are in your hands. You shouldn't be responsible for shaping young minds. You shouldn't be put in a cultural driver's seat.
You should be out of any position of influence.
This is how cancel culture should be used.
