The "kids" are not the ones kidnapping people who disagree with them.

Bill Maher still has a show, despite having spent more than twenty-five years being a racist POS. There is no such thing as "Cancel Culture": there are just people who are SUPER mad that their kids think their racism is bad.

"I have been silenced!"[1] says the side with all three branches of government, owns newspapers and TV stations, business leaders and executives in front of microphones all the time. But, yea--they're the ones that are being silenced.

1: https://leftycartoons.com/2018/08/01/i-have-been-silenced/

The idea of shutting down ideas is itself an idea that can be fought by other ideas. Those kids do not actually control institutions that can enforce the shutting down of ideas, even if cultural mores might have temporarily aligned with their positions from time to time.

Well, they're learning from the adults.

Soon as Trump's term started he started removing any mention of slavery from the Smithsonian cuz 'merica.

That's really the concerning thing. Liberals and conservatives not only dislike ideas, they dislike history and facts. That's what makes them dangerous.

On the left it seems you at least had a few moderates who had the good sense to keep the wing nuts in line. We tried the right, thinking we might get better governance, and have discovered, to our collective horror, that the right is wing nuts the whole way down. So you get things like tariffs, and purges, and wild 4$$ ravings about plane crashes being caused by too many blacks.

In the US we need to take things back in hand or it really will be way too late to do anything. These extremists will run the nation right into the ground.