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I canceled my digital subscription to the times over this. I'm not a huge fan of cancel culture, but aside from writing a letter, what else can I do? (serious

I canceled my digital subscription to the times over this. I'm not a huge fan of cancel culture, but aside from writing a letter, what else can I do? (serious question)

Verdex 6y ago
I think canceling your digital subscription makes sense and doesn't really feel like cancel culture to me. I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but I am a fan of canceling. I've got similar feelings about boycotts. If you want to tell someone about how a company is bad, then do that. If you don't want to give money to someone who does things you disagree with, then don't give them money. There are a lot of other options for your time and money. Where I think it gets a little ridiculous is when you (uh, not you, but like the general person) tell other people that you canceled something because it's bad. You're trying to make yourself look like the good guy/hero when all you did was decide to spend your time and money elsewhere. And it gets really ridiculous when you go right back to what was canceled when they provide some other thing that you like OR when it turns out nobody else cares about your virtuous canceling and you want to fit back in with the group. "Hey, we're all going to go see Avengers 10! It will be a huge party and it's going to be great. Oh, hey Josh, I forgot that you swore a blood oath to never see another movie owned by Disney after Walt Disney's zombie ate your dog." "Uh, I guess it's okay. It was kind of a silly blood oath anyway. And fluffy had a good life I guess. I suppose I can come." Of course you might also write a letter explaining why you canceled your subscription and say that you'll come back on the condition that they don't continue to pull shenanigans like this and that they take responsibility and apologize. Who knows it might actually change their policy if they see enough of this sort of thing.
kevingadd 6y ago
Boycotting a company that did something awful (or threatened to do something awful) to an individual is the opposite of cancel culture. Boycotts are a well-established and effective method for individuals to take action against corporations. It's not as if dropping your Times subscription is somehow going to silence an individual
afiori 6y ago
This is not cancel culture. It is at most a boycott. Cancel culture is when the boycotting is transitive that is you decide to boycott also the times' sponsor that refuse to join in the boycott.

I canceled my digital subscription to the times over this. I'm not a huge fan of cancel culture, but aside from writing a letter, what else can I do? (serious question)

Verdex 6y ago

I think canceling your digital subscription makes sense and doesn't really feel like cancel culture to me. I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but I am a fan of canceling. I've got similar feelings about boycotts. If you want to tell someone about how a company is bad, then do that. If you don't want to give money to someone who does things you disagree with, then don't give them money. There are a lot of other options for your time and money. Where I think it gets a little ridiculous is when you (uh, not you, but like the general person) tell other people that you canceled something because it's bad. You're trying to make yourself look like the good guy/hero when all you did was decide to spend your time and money elsewhere. And it gets really ridiculous when you go right back to what was canceled when they provide some other thing that you like OR when it turns out nobody else cares about your virtuous canceling and you want to fit back in with the group. "Hey, we're all going to go see Avengers 10! It will be a huge party and it's going to be great. Oh, hey Josh, I forgot that you swore a blood oath to never see another movie owned by Disney after Walt Disney's zombie ate your dog." "Uh, I guess it's okay. It was kind of a silly blood oath anyway. And fluffy had a good life I guess. I suppose I can come." Of course you might also write a letter explaining why you canceled your subscription and say that you'll come back on the condition that they don't continue to pull shenanigans like this and that they take responsibility and apologize. Who knows it might actually change their policy if they see enough of this sort of thing.

kevingadd 6y ago

Boycotting a company that did something awful (or threatened to do something awful) to an individual is the opposite of cancel culture. Boycotts are a well-established and effective method for individuals to take action against corporations. It's not as if dropping your Times subscription is somehow going to silence an individual

afiori 6y ago

This is not cancel culture. It is at most a boycott. Cancel culture is when the boycotting is transitive that is you decide to boycott also the times' sponsor that refuse to join in the boycott.