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Also, Pedro Domingos wants to fight against cancel culture by -- supporting boycotting Nvidia until they fire an employee who supports cancel culture... which s
by CJefferson 6y ago
Also, Pedro Domingos wants to fight against cancel culture by -- supporting boycotting Nvidia until they fire an employee who supports cancel culture... which sounds an awful lot like cancel culture to me.
I've been vaguely following this, and neither side comes off well -- a few people decide winning Twitter points is more important than anything else, and ramp themselves up into a frenzy by Tweeting dozens of times a day.
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- baryphonic 6y agoTit-for-tat is a dominant strategy. Promising to cancel the cancelers if you are canceled may seem hypocritical, but it may be a particularly valuable tactic. As Yoda says, a Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
- nsajko 6y agoHow to distuingish this behavior from hypocrisy, then? The defense vs attack comparison seems very inappropriate, I don't know where's the line between the former and the latter, but trying to get someone fired seems like an attack to me.
- unishark 6y agoThe difference is getting people fired over political arguments, versus getting people fired for getting others fired over political arguments. Is it hypocrisy to have someone arrested for kidnapping?
- jdkee 6y agoSee also “The Paradox of Tolerance” by Karl Popper.
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago"Mom, he hit me first!" That's what defense vs attack turns into, with Twitter being "Mom".
- CJefferson 6y agoTit-for-tat is fine, but don't at the same time write a letter demanding the ACM bans cancel culture.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoNo, that's simply hoisting people by their own petard, which we should applaud for cleverness. Your statement would only be correct if Domingos was actively seeking out other people to cancel to advance an agenda, as the original antagonist was.