Tiana Lowe Doescher is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner, as well as an on-air contributor for The First on Pluto TV. She previously interned for National Review and founded the USC Economics Review. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in economics and mathematics.
Over at Reason, my friend Robby Soave wondered if Playboy's termination of porn star Mia Khalifa constitutes cancel culture. For those thankfully unfamiliar with the matter, the raunchy print magazine and lifestyle brand terminated the Lebanese American Khalifa for cheering on the Hamas terrorists' illegal invasion and war on Israel.
"If you can look at the situation in Palestine and not be on the side of the Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid and history will show that in Time," said Khalifa, who also called a photo of Hamas terrorists a"Renaissance painting" and called for the"freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal."Soave has championed a righteous crusade challenging cancel culture, but Khalifa's case simply doesn't fit the bill.
Soave also points out that Playboy knew what it was purchasing when it hired Khalifa, who has gone viral for bragging that her Vichy France-bottled wine was"older than your apartheid 'state,'" referring to Israel. But I would like to believe that there is a difference between supporting terrorists in the abstract and continuing to support them as the burned remains of corpses and child hostages spill into full view of our X feeds.
In an ostensible liberal democracy, we should be broadly tolerant of viewpoints, many that we find abhorrent. I consider communism or refusing to get your children vaccinated for measles both reprehensible, but again, people are complex, and we can recognize the still extant humanity of those holding misguided and wrong views.
Khalifa's posts, however, actively cheered on a terrorist organization while it was genociding the Jews. If that doesn't extend past the Overton window in a way that refusing to endorse Black Lives Matter does, then nothing really does matter.
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