Dmitry Vilensky: On the progressive politics of cancelling
On the progressive politics of cancelling.
The warning: the text is ironical and the author definitely supports all progressive issues despite being Leftist, Jewish, from Russia and living in Germany.
One can cancel leftists,
because they are suspicious:
they are not woke enough, not decolonial enough
and not anti-western as it must be.
One definitely should cancel Russians:
they are very suspicious,
does not matter how they act,
anyway they speak Russian language,
have Russian passports,
and definitely are penetrated by imperial culture.
And Ukrainians are always disturbed by their presence.
One must cancel Germans:
they are very suspicious
with all their cancelling of pro-Palestinian voices, censorships,
one cannot live and work their anymore.
And if you are not canceled in Germany
you should be canceled outside Germany — this is clear.
One should cancel Jews:
they are always a problem.
Does not matter if they are against occupation, or not,
if they pro-peace or not
they are anyway Zionist under disguises
and they cannot chant “From the River to the See”
with a proper enthusiasm.
And there are plenty of
pacifists,
humanists,
stand-by-together
and other very suspicious folks
but luckily, they are already cancelled by default.
And now we are on the bright road
to the total victory of good cause
by all means necessary.