The report says “corporations should permanently suspend political donations to Members of Congress and other elected officials that helped incite the violent siege and request that any past political donations to their campaigns be returned.” It also recommends that “public figures involved in inciting and giving encouragement to the armed insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 … should be permanently deplatformed from all social media.”
It appears the SPLC is characterizing the Republicans’ decision to contest the 2020 election results as “supporting the insurrection,” even when those Republicans condemned the violence. Using this logic, the call for permanent social media deplatforming seems to apply to any public figure who contested the 2020 election results. The report makes no mention of the Democrats who claimed the 2016 election results were fraudulent.
The SPLC has long urged Big Tech to censor “hate groups,” but this call for widespread expulsion and deplatforming goes far beyond anything the SPLC has previously demanded. This cancel culture push would not just bar more than half of the 261 Republicans in the House and Senate from Congress, but it would silence a broad spectrum of public figures on social media, including Eric Metaxas, Samaritan’s Purse CEO Franklin Graham, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and more, based on false pretenses regarding their words.
Furthermore, by the logic of this cancel culture push, Democrats should also get expelled from Congress for “inciting” the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots over the summer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for “uprisings” against the Trump administration and accused the Republicans of “trying to get away with the murder of George Floyd.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claimed that allegedly marginalized groups have “no choice but to riot.” Then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said the riots “should not” stop.
It appears the SPLC is characterizing the Republicans’ decision to contest the 2020 election results as “supporting the insurrection,” even when those Republicans condemned the violence. Using this logic, the call for permanent social media deplatforming seems to apply to any public figure who contested the 2020 election results. The report makes no mention of the Democrats who claimed the 2016 election results were fraudulent.
The SPLC has long urged Big Tech to censor “hate groups,” but this call for widespread expulsion and deplatforming goes far beyond anything the SPLC has previously demanded. This cancel culture push would not just bar more than half of the 261 Republicans in the House and Senate from Congress, but it would silence a broad spectrum of public figures on social media, including Eric Metaxas, Samaritan’s Purse CEO Franklin Graham, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and more, based on false pretenses regarding their words.
Furthermore, by the logic of this cancel culture push, Democrats should also get expelled from Congress for “inciting” the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots over the summer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for “uprisings” against the Trump administration and accused the Republicans of “trying to get away with the murder of George Floyd.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claimed that allegedly marginalized groups have “no choice but to riot.” Then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said the riots “should not” stop.
