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Destroy the community
In his recent letter to Donald Bobbitt, president of the University of Arkansas System, Joseph Steinmetz, chancellor of UA-Fayetteville, recommended that the Fulbright statue be moved. This recommendation should be ignored. It’s a symptom of culture cancellation, and culture cancellation is a cancer to be resisted.
But why exactly is canceling culture problematic? Racism is most definitely bad, so why shouldn’t we cancel the racist ones? One of the main issues with the cancellation culture seems to be that it has no mercy. Not at all. It is pure justice, if you can call popular justice, justice. But beneath this just (and quite justified) outrage lies a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature.
I once heard a culture cancellation advocate say that we should cancel people because we need to eliminate toxic people to make way for non-toxic people. Spoiler alert! We are all toxic people. We are all sinners, and we sin fairly regularly. And this fundamental misunderstanding – or, perhaps, arrogant pride – is why canceling culture is all justice and no mercy. The main defenders do not see their own sins, their own toxicity. They think they’re generally good people and shouldn’t be canceled because they’re not toxic. They don’t realize that if justice is to be unleashed, justice must be unleashed against them just as much as it has been unleashed against the racists of the world. If anyone were to be canceled, everyone should be canceled.
Steinmetz said in his letter, “We strive to promote a sense of belonging inherent in all who join the University of Arkansas community. Without mercy, there is no belonging. All over. There is only the fear of being canceled. President Bobbitt, don’t let culture cancellation destroy the UofA community, as it almost certainly will.
STEPHEN IRBY
Fayetteville
Empty the neighborhood
Mow-rhon or useless idiot; I have to be one or the other. When I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, it really meant something. Today, not so much. Members of the two august bodies, the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, increasingly resemble members of certain dubious groups around the world that our State Department has inscribed on various terrorist lists. Too much power and too much partisanship.
With the exception of “liberals” living in Hillcrest, Heights, and Chenal, the good people of Arkansas generally vote to support Conservative political candidates in Congress. I hate to say it, but the 535 members of the House and Senate who served six years or more in Congress must return home. I know you’re gonna say mow-rhon or just silly now. Well, there are too many people who have accumulated so much power that they prevent others from really accomplishing anything. Too many people have left a generational legacy in Congress.
Let’s be honest; Congress does not “work” at all. Stop making fun. Yes, we love our local members of Congress; it’s just to purge all the careerists out there. Sometimes we have to throw out the baby with all the bath water to get a clean, cool water tub. Life will go on. Returning members will be joining the company and some of them will be very surprised at how terrible things have become for the average worker. It will be a great renaissance on a par with the even greater one of the 14th century.
Oh, by the way, there are about a million employees, bureaucrats, and other ties in Washington. They should also be replaced immediately. Too many of them are content to change jobs to ensure their survival. Pity. Take them home too, even though most of them don’t have a real place to call home. Get rid of every last one as well.
LOUIS BURNETT
Small stone
The blame runs deeper
I believe the Capitol Hill crowd was the logical culmination of years of mainstream Republican politics. For years, the GOP has vilified Democrats as extremists who pose an existential threat to America and whose electoral victories are inherently fraudulent. This “rhetoric of delegitimization” has long fueled the conservative movement, and Capitol violence was the next logical step.
It was more than anger for one election. It was an outburst of rage among whites who see their dominance threatened by the multiracial coalition of Americans that brought President Biden to power. Carrying Confederate flags, they fought not only to defend Trump, but also to defend white America, whose grip on power became increasingly precarious.
WALTER KORZICK
Conway
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