Jim Jordan calls for House Judiciary hearing on 'cancel culture'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill


BY JOHN BOWDEN - 03/01/21 05:29 PM EST

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on Monday for the House Judiciary Committee to hold a public hearing on "cancel culture," arguing that the committee should investigate what he claimed was a wave of "censorship" occurring in private companies, on college campuses, and other facets of American life.

Jordan, the committee's ranking member, did not give a reason in his letter why the Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with overseeing the federal court system and law enforcement, would have purview over this issue.

The Ohio Republican argued instead in his letter that "cancel culture's long-term consequences to our democracy and our constitutional framework are serious and substantial." He referenced a number of issues including former President Trump's ban from Twitter in the wake of the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

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Trump supporters have argued that tech companies were practicing censorship when they banned the former president and other prominent spreaders of conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election. After the riot on Jan. 6, Twitter and Facebook both moved to remove Trump from their platforms.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/541093-jim-jordan-calls-for-judiciary-hearing-on-cancel-culture

[WHITT]

1. Ideed

all these state Repub parties CENSURING Repub members of the House and Senate.

Oh Wait.

[soothsayer]

23. Violently and in other ways tried to cancel the election

[BlueStater]

2. What a fucking moron.

It’s so damn embarrassing this idiot is in Congress. This is such a stupid country.

[Trueblue1968]

11. Embarrassing is right? You want an investigation Gym Jordan. THAT WOULD BE A "NO"

Your request is stupid and we don't need an answer. WE NEED TO GET A HANDLE ON COVID, WE NEED TO PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK. we need to get kids back in school, reduce college loan $$$$$ .... and all the important stuff.

your request in trivial. now SHUT UP GYM.

[PSPS]

3. Stupid and meaningless, as always. Private companies are perfectly free to "practice censorship."

If their owners had a conscience, they'd be doing far more of it. Bring the hammer down. Twitter's latest "5 strikes" nonsense on covid disinformation is an example. Why 5? Is this a version of the "three strikes" baseball non-sequitur? If only a few thousand die because someone twittered disinformation "only" 4 times OK? This is all just PR so as not to overly disrupt the flow of bitcoins/rubles into the owner's wallet.

[Montauk6]

8. Didn't aynRand Paul go around espousing this...

to justify his taking umbrage with the '64 Civil Rights Act?

[Midnight Writer]

4. The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have.

[PatSeg]

30. Yes

They have no real interest in legislating or don't know how. They get paid good money to go to Washington to put on ridiculous publicity stunts to hopefully keep themselves relevant to their voters. It is not only an expensive waste of tax payers' money, it is embarrassing as well.

I can picture Gym mulling over ideas of how to get in front of the camera again, so he can put on a real show for the folks back home. "And of course I won't wear a jacket to show everyone what a maverick I am."

What a shameful waste of space.

[movingviolation]

39. And if I was a foreign adversary, I would exploit the fuck out of this.

Simple divide and conquer. You can't run a functioning democracy founded in truth, when one side deals wholly in lies.
KGB groomed Donny since the 70's, I'm thinking he wasn't the only one groomed to destroy U.S.A. There seems to be a lot of them when you see the fruit that this rotten GQP tree produces.

[PatSeg]

40. Oh yes, there is really strong evidence

that Trump was hardly the only one. Clearly Russian intelligence can spot these fools long before the American public does.

[AZ8theist]

5. Let's start with his cancelling...

ALL RESPOSIBILITY for himself for student rape on the OSU wrestling team.

[IzzaNuDay]

49. +1

A good start is him not throwing wayward stones while he's in his glass house!

[whathehell]

6. Someone should explain "Consequence Culture"

to these morons -- If you shit on people, you face consequences.

What about this does the "Party of Personal Responsibility" not understand?

[Roy Rolling]

14. Words Matter

Enlightened people shouldn’t use the trademark phrase “cancel culture” ever. Every mention of it (like now) feeds the word fire they started to corrupt the meaning. Consequence Culture is the perfect substitute.

Never use right-wing created words.

[OldBaldy1701E]

29. Well

Back when those animals on the right were trying to remove anything they found offensive (which is anything that ether makes them look bad or takes money away from them), it most certainly was 'cancel culture'. However, now that a tiny bit of common sense has been applied to the world wide piranha pool, it most certainly is becoming 'consequence culture'. Now if we can keep this side from devolving into yet another piranha pool, we might actually get something positive done!

[movingviolation]

41. Bam! Simple and true.

Consequence Culture. They need to be called out in the strongest terms any time they pull this pony show bullshit.

Say, whatever happened to the party of personal responsibility? They've apparently turned into party of ducking responsibility, greed, and gaslighting..

Side note, when I wrote ducking, it made me do 2nd take, like autocorrect changed a naughty word..

[whathehell]

45. Yes they do..

and I agree that the "cancel culture" meme needs to lose oxygen and die. A good response could be key.

[TurboDem]

25. I like that term "Consequence Culture".

I think you hit the nail on the head!

[whathehell]

44. Thank you..

The "culture of impunity" has gone on too long.

[cstanleytech]

7. Anyone else think Jim got F's in school when it came to social studies?

[JohnnyRingo]

9. "We reserve the right to refuse service"

I guess we'll see an end to all those signs if Jordan passes a law. Maybe he thinks he can just make it work for his fellow Nazis, but that's not how it works.

I'll finally be allowed back in all those bars from my youth!

[GReedDiamond]

10. No Shirt, No Shoes, No Jacket...

...No Brain...No Service...Reprehensible Gym Jordan.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. RepubliQon cancel culture is cancelling votes, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and dirty tricks

Investigate the Greedy QooQy Party.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. Are The Dixie Chicks invited?

[modrepub]

15. Lying And/Or Spreading Falsehoods

Shouldn't be tolerated as "free speech" if it qualifies as shouting "fire" in a crowded movie theater.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. How about we cancel stupidity and gaslighting instead?

Because you know, it would strip GymJo of tools and irritate his little mind

[NurseJackie]

17. Aw.

[gab13by13]

18. What about ACORN?

Let's start with them and get them back up and running first. Deal?

[twodogsbarking]

19. If we can't tell lies

we will never win another election.

[samnsara]

20. its Correction Culture

[Fullduplexxx]

21. The cons just tried to cancel 81 million voters

[sinkingfeeling]

22. I'd rather they investigate anti-democracy House members and

their connection to 1/6 insurrectionists.

[movingviolation]

42. and investigations into all that Russian money funneled through the NRA to GQP back in 2015-2016.

Their hands are dirty and bloody to boot. The GQP is an internally embedded, adversary funded, traitorous conspiratorial criminal cabal enterprise, portraying itself as a political party.

[soothsayer]

24. Cancel gym Jordan

[turbinetree]

26. Hey Jordon you wanna know how bright you are, why is it that your party

of fascists' want to rewrite history, your party is trying to censure voters all across the landscape its happening in real time, suppression laws on voting..............so what I am trying to say is pound sand...........all you are and your party is nothing more than traitors, who should be removed from office, expelled and censured..............now that is what I call "cancel culture"..........

[yaesu]

27. He must have gotten the idea from bill maher when he was whining about cancel culture on his last

show, maybe bill will have gym on next weekend.

[Fritz Walter]

28. Look at what I found!

Gym(-shorts-around-his-ankles) Jordan's Panda Ring!

[George II]

31. He should be careful about what he asks for. This could backfire on him and his fellow republicans.

[reACTIONary]

32. Let's cancel this. nt

[LeftInTX]

33. Sounds like something they would do in Texas...only they would make a stupid law

and put it in the constitution...

[chowder66]

34. These morons need to stop wasting out tax dollars. nt

[The Mouth]

35. 'Funny' how the Reich wing was all about canceling the Dixie Chicks, Muhammad Ali, etc

I abhor both sides and anything resembling censorship (defined as making any information unavailable or harder to access).

so utter hypocrisy from the right, surprise, surprise, surprise.

[BlueIdaho]

36. Fund raising stunt.

Never seen a more disingenuous cynical money grubber than Gym.

[movingviolation]

37. Cancel Jim Jordan instead.

I wish his voters had more than half a brain cell.

[twodogsbarking]

43. When his name is spelled "J I M" it looks like a typo.

I've seen "G Y M" so many times. Thanks DU.

[Skittles]

46. they tried to CANCEL THE LEGITIMATE RESULTS OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

FUCK THEM ALL

[roamer65]

47. How about a hearing on the OSU sex scandal?

And Gym’s involvement in it?

[truthisfreedom]

48. It's humorous that republicans are calling for a nanny state now.

They want government to oversee the affairs of private institutions and corporations. They're anti-freedom (corporations shouldn't have the freedom to change their products, like Mr Potato Head, the Muppets, Sesame Street and Dr Suess), they're anti-capitalist (corporations should not be changing things to protect their bottom line) and they're clearly anti-corporation. And anti-progress to boot, but they always were a bunch of reactionary nut jobs.

[RobinA]

50. Someone Needs

a Con Law 101 refresher