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Back in what day?

by tehwebguy 6y ago

Back in what day?

josephcsible 6y ago
Before Twitter existed.
- tehwebguy 6y ago
  Good thing there was no Twitter when MLK Jr shared his opinion, could have turned out badly for him.
  - josephcsible 6y ago
    There will always be nut jobs willing to go as far as to assassinate people they disagree with. The point is that "just" cancelling people you disagree with used to not be mainstream or common.
throwaway0a5e 6y ago
Imagine it's 2005 and Lebron says something unflammatory like "McVeigh had the right idea" or something. It would be in the sports news for one evening. Everyone would be like "ok weirdo". Some sports commentator would dredge it up in 2008 as a punchline to a joke and that would be it. The same thing in 2020 and someone would write a manifesto about how he's Literally Hitler(TM). There would be 50-50 odds a major outlet would publish that manifesto. The league would bench him for a substantial time. ESPN would distance themselves. He'd lose promotion deals. It would seriously negatively impact his career despite having exactly zero bearing on his ability to play basketball, the thing he's paid to do. Edit: Better, non-hypothetical examples: Mel Gibson had to drunkenly spout hateful things about people who are important in his industry to get kicked out of it. These days you don't even have to offend people relevant to you to get that kind of treatment. Look at the flak that 2000s rappers caught for song lyrics that objectified women and glorified street violence. Now imagine what that kind of backlash would look like today. Probably much bigger.
- pmiller2 6y ago
  > Mel Gibson had to drunkenly spout hateful things about people who are important in his industry to get kicked out of it. These days you don't even have to offend people relevant to you to get that kind of treatment. Michael Richards has entered the chat
- tehwebguy 6y ago
  > Imagine it's 2005 and Lebron says something unflammatory like "McVeigh had the right idea" or something WHAT?
  - throwaway0a5e 6y ago
    That's exactly my point. It's completely wacky and inflammatory and would go over like a lead baloon then and now but the repercussions would be worse now.
    - tehwebguy 6y ago
      It’s not wacky, the closer to 1995 that you get the more outrage there would be. You know that Mel Gibson was “canceled” and kept working right? He only had a few years of no new movies, barely even took a vacation.
- XorNot 6y ago
  I like how you say "look this happens all the time today" and yet you have failed to provide a single actual example in the last 5 years of the thing you're so sure is happening.

Back in what day?

josephcsible 6y ago

Before Twitter existed.

tehwebguy 6y ago
Good thing there was no Twitter when MLK Jr shared his opinion, could have turned out badly for him.
- josephcsible 6y ago
  There will always be nut jobs willing to go as far as to assassinate people they disagree with. The point is that "just" cancelling people you disagree with used to not be mainstream or common.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago

Imagine it's 2005 and Lebron says something unflammatory like "McVeigh had the right idea" or something. It would be in the sports news for one evening. Everyone would be like "ok weirdo". Some sports commentator would dredge it up in 2008 as a punchline to a joke and that would be it. The same thing in 2020 and someone would write a manifesto about how he's Literally Hitler(TM). There would be 50-50 odds a major outlet would publish that manifesto. The league would bench him for a substantial time. ESPN would distance themselves. He'd lose promotion deals. It would seriously negatively impact his career despite having exactly zero bearing on his ability to play basketball, the thing he's paid to do. Edit: Better, non-hypothetical examples: Mel Gibson had to drunkenly spout hateful things about people who are important in his industry to get kicked out of it. These days you don't even have to offend people relevant to you to get that kind of treatment. Look at the flak that 2000s rappers caught for song lyrics that objectified women and glorified street violence. Now imagine what that kind of backlash would look like today. Probably much bigger.

pmiller2 6y ago
> Mel Gibson had to drunkenly spout hateful things about people who are important in his industry to get kicked out of it. These days you don't even have to offend people relevant to you to get that kind of treatment. Michael Richards has entered the chat
tehwebguy 6y ago
> Imagine it's 2005 and Lebron says something unflammatory like "McVeigh had the right idea" or something WHAT?
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  That's exactly my point. It's completely wacky and inflammatory and would go over like a lead baloon then and now but the repercussions would be worse now.
  - tehwebguy 6y ago
    It’s not wacky, the closer to 1995 that you get the more outrage there would be. You know that Mel Gibson was “canceled” and kept working right? He only had a few years of no new movies, barely even took a vacation.
XorNot 6y ago
I like how you say "look this happens all the time today" and yet you have failed to provide a single actual example in the last 5 years of the thing you're so sure is happening.