I don't like when people dismiss fears of cancel culture; often with "it's just the powerless fighting back against the powerful". That's facile and disingenuou

I don't like when people dismiss fears of cancel culture; often with "it's just the powerless fighting back against the powerful". That's facile and disingenuous. It's not the weak fighting against the powerful. It's a bullying mob attacking the weak without restraint; and the results are death threats, career or academic destruction, depression, suicide, loss of community, friends and family. Often it's for an innocuous joke that landed poorly or didn't age well, or a misunderstanding, or nothing at all. Defending such mobbing and bullying betrays a lack of self awareness: mobs do not care for mitigating circumstances, politics, past history. The culture war battlefields are littered with the figurative corpses of former leaders of cancel culture, the mob having come for they themselves