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Young people have different views from their parents and grand-parents, new at 11. Cancel culture is just the stupid name given to the eternal "kids these days
by mywittyname 6y ago
Young people have different views from their parents and grand-parents, new at 11.
Cancel culture is just the stupid name given to the eternal "kids these days" complaint. Old people get pissed off when young kids discover and begin leveraging their political capabilities. This really isn't very different from complaints about rock & roll, hippies, or any other previous instances of young people using their economic influence to shape the views of society. Elvis shaking his hips on TV seems so quaint today, but lots of middle-aged and older people of the era found that highly offensive.
I'm getting to the age where I'm about to flip into the old man category here. But for now, I'm happy to see that young people aren't going to let assholes push them around and are fighting back with the tools they have available to them. There are loads of teenage girls out there who are half my size with twice the courage.
- bsagdiyev 6y agoYes, getting a Mexican-American fired for unknowingly making a hand gesture is just "kids these days". It's so simple! (https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-over-alleged-racist-gesture-says-he-was-cracking-knuckles/2347414/ https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...)
- godelski 6y agoFrom my understanding this specific gesture was turned white supremacist through 4chan's efforts to turn mundane and everyday things into hate symbols "because it'll be funny." [0]. It should be noted that this is more than just the okay symbol and they are trying to co-opt everything until everything is meaningless [1][2][3][4][5][I could go on, seriously]. They literally see this guy getting fired as a success because now people are using hate symbols and don't know it. > DON'T FEED THE TROLL [0] (ok) https://mashable.com/article/ok-hand-gesture-hate-symbol-anti-defamation-league-white-sumpremacy/ https://mashable.com/article/ok-hand-gesture-hate-symbol-ant... [1] (LGBT flag) https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/f1g3m1/anon_creates_a_hate_symbol/ https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/f1g3m1/anon_creates_... [2] (#) https://www.rt.com/news/460490-4chan-hashtag-symbol-nazism/ https://www.rt.com/news/460490-4chan-hashtag-symbol-nazism/ [3] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-okay-to-be-white https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-okay-to-be-white [4] (milk) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-science-dna.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-sci... [5] (larger list showing co-option of several symbols) https://www.wired.com/2017/05/alt-rights-newest-ploy-trolling-false-symbols/ https://www.wired.com/2017/05/alt-rights-newest-ploy-trollin...
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- codekansas 6y agoI think this is a different issue. It is more of an attack on some fundamental principles. Like, even if some older people in the 70's thought hippies and beatniks were lazy no-goods, the fundamentals - free speech, the right to protest and disagree - protected everyone. I think the worry today is that the next beatnik kid is too scared to say anything outside the status quo. Personally I feel like the traditional defenders of liberalism have gotten too limp dick and internet-unsavvy. Ultimately I hope that as internet-native people age and mature they will realize the importance of the loftier philosophical ideals required to make progress actually happen.
- ardy42 6y ago> Young people have different views from their parents and grand-parents, new at 11. The expression is "film at 11." It dates from when TV stations used film cameras, and would find themselves in situations where they could report some news hours before the footage of it was ready to be shown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_at_11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_at_11