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> growing threat of cancel culture Really? While there are excesses everywhere in all things, this it just silly. This is a point made in sympathy to the goa
by newacct583 6y ago
> growing threat of cancel culture
Really? While there are excesses everywhere in all things, this it just silly. This is a point made in sympathy to the goals of a political campaign and not out of genuine fear.
People aren't going to stop using their real names for fear of being "cancelled", come on.
- josteink 6y agoI’ve long stopped using my real identity when voicing “deviant” political opinions. The threat of cancel culture is very, very real.
- emerged 6y agoIt's hard to imagine being so uncontroversial in your opinions, that you could afford not to even believe cancel culture is a real thing. Thing is, eventually everyone is targeted for one reason or another as the focus shifts, and over time the focus of the day will contradict the focus of the past.
- newacct583 6y agoI don't think I claimed it didn't exist, I claimed that the paranoia about it that exists right now on the American right is a fabrication. It's the theme that the Trump campaign has decided on running against (c.f. the speech at Mt. Rushmore[1]) which is why it's en vogue to talk about and no doubt why it sprung so readily to your fingers in a discussion about internet anonymity. [1] For those old enough to remember "They hate us for our freedoms" and "Radical Islamic Terrorism", this obsession seems like pretty weak sauce, at least as existential threats go. Previous administrations could at least invoke the threat of death. The worst terrors of the modern conservative are apparently being yelled at by hippies on the internet.
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