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Movements are built off the back of small victories. It's not a surprise or a revelation that what you paint as 'cancel culture', a concept without personificat
by johnday 6y ago
Movements are built off the back of small victories. It's not a surprise or a revelation that what you paint as 'cancel culture', a concept without personification, is exercising its (limited) power in the ways you describe. It seems likely to me that, as victories accumulate, so will the socio-political power of the group, until they are capable of making serious change at the level of nation-states.
- mlthoughts2018 6y agoI think you misunderstood. These aren’t “victories” in the sense of having any impact on reform or progress - they have none, not even a little, and the people doing the cancelling never expected or needed them to. It’s only about taking what you can grab. The goal is to get more stuff while not being accused of violating social norms during the act of taking. So cancel culture is invented as an excuse of convenience that allows taking stuff on one hand while claiming moral righteousness (even though your only motive was to take peoples stuff you wanted) on the other. If you wanted social reform, there are many actions you could choose that aren’t directly rooted in terms of who are the easiest people, with sufficiently valuable stuff, to take from. The fact that people choose to focus on social looting instead of all the rational alternatives is what really conclusively demonstrates that cancelling is not at all about pure motives to fix things but instead is just about what can you get away with taking while protected under the righteousness banner of the social movement convenience excuse.