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"Cancel culture" is what you get when you tell a whole generation that the political apparel can't do anything and the only way of beating either climate change
by orwin 6y ago
"Cancel culture" is what you get when you tell a whole generation that the political apparel can't do anything and the only way of beating either climate change/racism/sexism is voting with your wallet. It was inconsequential when the millenials were between 5 and 25, now its not anymore.
This is the same thing as those 2010 pieces "the millenials are killing restaurants". They're just voting with their wallet. It was poor food when they were mostly student or young workers. Now it's Nike, or anything caught doing thing that some millenials find immoral. That's what the previous generation kept saying. The millenials just listened (and have tools to organize).
I'm not agreeing with this, i'm just understanding. I'm voting with my wallet too. And this is a powerful tool.
If some millenials (or now the next generation, whatever its name) chose not to go to an university because of what a professor said and this is causing financial loss, well to bad. It's sad for the professor, but what can you do? If it is not defamation, people have the right to talk and organize, no?