Conservative and Right Wing cancel culture

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Modern cancellations seems more personal and vicious.

They may call your employer and demand you be fired.

I understand when you talk about the Parents Television Council, but otherwise I don't see the right-wing "cancel" culture as more pervasive or common as it has been on the left-wing, like more recently.

OP bought up the Hays' code, but I don't know if "liberals" back then supported that too.

Don't put the blame on conservatism for cancel culture. You can't even compare what went on back in the day to what liberals are doing these days. If you don't agree with liberals on pretty much everything--if you dare to have a different viewpoint from them--they will do everything in their power to ruin your life. Conservatives have never done that. The Hays Code? It had nothing to do with cancel culture and everything to do with keeping high moral standards in society, something that I believe is sorely lacking these days. Frankly, I'd rather live in a society that still went by the Hays Code.

That's hilariously naive.

Imagine being a female, black, gay, atheist, communist in the 1930s.

In fact, imagine that today, in Alabama.

America has always had a "conservative hive mind" attitude - you're free to believe anything you like, provided it's the same as what we believe. If you are "other" to that in any way, you have no say, no rights, and no importance.

Also, no right to any social or cultural history: Alabama selective social history

Essentially, the establishment will treat you as sub-human for having the audacity to be anything other than a capitalist, white, straight, christian male.

It's still going on, it's just more subtle these days.

Modern cancellations seems more personal and vicious.

They may call your employer and demand you be fired.

Plenty of people lost their jobs, then couldn't find employment, when the right had accused them of being communists in the 1950's, and were hounded by said righties for years to come. That's much more vindictive, in my opinion.

What you are talking about is McCarthyism, which was compared to the metoo movement by Bill Maher actually, which I happened to agree with, a bit.

But the irony is still there, the left doing a similar thing the right has done before.
Both, the right and left are guilty of restricting freedoms.
The term "microagression" for example (which by its nature is unfalsifiable) is something that the left use, and it tampers with freedom to a great extent.

I am a bit familiar with twitter harassment, people wanting to force their own subjective opinions, when they get offended by something, on other people by force, to the point of wanting to get rid of people having fantasies (thought police), because "is offensive", so yeah, these things are a problem.

Modern cancellations seems more personal and vicious.

They may call your employer and demand you be fired.

Customers have been demanding that managers fire employees who dare to offend them in some imagined way for well over 100 years. It's hardly a modern thing. Sometimes the consequences are unreasonable - but a lot of today's problem is people aren't used to having to face consequences, so they feel worse than they are cos they're a new experience.

The Right Wing has tried to cancel The Beatles since the band set foot on American soil. One British group that they did manage to cancel was The Kinks. The Kinks were cool enough to be banned from America.

The left would try to cancel the 60's Beatles for not being "woke" enough and politically incorrect.

I imagine "You better run for your life if you can, little girl....." or "She was just seventeen, You know what I mean" or "I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene. And I'm doing the best that I can" (the protagonist of the song was not metooed and got away with it) would cause a "Cancel The Beatles" reaction and twitter harassment today, way stronger than the "We are bigger than Jesus" thing.

But, as CR notes, it wasn't the left who 'cancelled' the Beatles in the '60s. Your hypothetical is the opposite of what has actually occurred.

In a Playboy interview in 1980, preceding the release of his last album, when discussing the song “Getting Better,” Lennon admitted to abusing his ex-wife Cynthia Lennon, seemingly without much thought.

“(The song) is a diary form of writing. All that ‘I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved’ was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically… any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn’t express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women… But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.”

People have questioned whether the abuse extended to his son with Cynthia, Julian Lennon. John Lennon left his then-wife and son while Julian was very young, and he was never as close with his first son as he was with his second son Sean and second wife Yoko Ono.

In an interview, Julian did not confirm or deny abuse claims, but he called his father a “hypocrite,” stating, “Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces — no communication, adultery, divorce? You can’t do it, not if you’re being true and honest with yourself.”

These facts make it clear that John Lennon was not the bastion of love and peace he is traditionally viewed as, and it raises a moral issue: How can we love a man who caused so much harm?

And he wrote a song with the N-Word in the title.