Podcasts Related to Cancellation Campaigning

If you play by the rules of the cancel culture, the cancel culture rules.  This is my response to being publicly disinvited from singing at a rally last Saturday, due to false allegations spread by Twitter trolls apparently being believed.

Anatomy of a Cancellation

The anarchist scene in Portland, Oregon has a wingnut fringe, and its de facto leaders include one Shane Burley, who has recently published an article attacking me with all kinds of baseless lies. Here, I respond to the latest attacks.

Shane Burley's Anarcho-Puritan Cancellation Campaigning, Explained

The most recent round of attacks against me online from my cancellation campaigners are because I sang at the wrong conference. In this podcast I explore that kind of response to an artist allegedly doing the wrong gig.

Singing for Sectarians

When fascism comes to America, it will delivered by a midwife called the Progressive Industrial Complex.

You can find this in written form in today's edition of Counterpunch, as well as in both written and podcast forms at davidrovics.com/thisweek.

The Progressive Industrial Complex and Our Fascist Future

A written version of this podcast can be found in this weekend's edition of Counterpunch.

10 Ways the Left is Vulnerable to Cancellation Campaigning and How We Might Overcome This Tendency

I'm doing a west coast tour next week, and the wackos are back, trying to intimidate gig organizers into canceling my little acoustic gigs, calling up farmers and people hosting house concerts to tell them I'm a Nazi.  Welcome to my life in 2022.

The Trolls' Toll

A response to Shane Burley's latest piece of disinformation in Truthout, along with related thoughts on Al-Jazeera's Labour Files exposé, Scandinavian economics, and the future of civilization.

Embracing Reality and Finding Solutions vs. Sowing Division and Spreading Disinformation

Communication or Excommunication:  a Question for Our Times

Here's a broadcastable response to me being prevented from appearing on a radio show at my local community radio station this week here in Portlandia.

Cancellation Campaigner Gets Cancel Culture Discussion on KBOO Cancelled

What do a popular conservative journalist and a little-known leftwing musician have in common? Ask our trolls.

Sharing Trolls with Andy Ngo

If we were to try to assess the overall impact of no-platforming campaigns over the course of the past century, what would we conclude?

The Historic Failure of No-Platforming

Whatever it is that happened or is happening now in Centralia, come November, 2023, there will be a new, town-sanctioned IWW plaque in Centralia Square.

Conflict, Compromise, and Controversy in Centralia

Whether the left develops an inclusive orientation towards organizing the working class, or the exclusive orientation of a dystopic cancellation cult, is up to all of us.

The Left: How We Can Build It and How We Can Destroy It

Some thoughts on our collective divisions and how they've been implemented.

Generating Generation Gaps

Why am I shadowbanned on Bandcamp, and why does this matter?

Bandcamp or Bannedcamp?

Ever wake up one morning and realize you've been a pawn in someone else's game, when you thought you were making history instead?

The Social Engineering and Paralysis of the US Left

In between having my Facebook account hacked and my wifi signal jammed, I heard an interview with Roger Lucey, and my imagination went wild.

We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

How did so much of what we once thought of as the left become an anti-intellectual, identity-obsessed cult, and how did I become Emmanuel Goldstein?

Being Goldstein

2,000+ hateful comments and one week later, what I have I learned from the Hasbara Trolls?

What Are the Pro-Israel Trolls Trying to Accomplish?

The thousands of troll accounts spewing genocidal propaganda on my Facebook posts are abhorrent and completely full of crap, but they have a fascinating narrative, albeit completely farcical.  All the more fascinating is the fact that, although obviously farcical to anyone with an actual clue, the western press and politicians generally accept the narrative as self-evidently accurate.

What I Learned From The Hasbara Trolls

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.