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> Also the whole cancel culture is crazy since it’s so trigger happy. I have given this a great deal of thought and I'm still torn on what to believe. On one
by Threeve303 6y ago
> Also the whole cancel culture is crazy since it’s so trigger happy.
I have given this a great deal of thought and I'm still torn on what to believe.
On one hand, everyone wants to be judge, jury, and executioner.
This means that the power the state has to determine these things is eroded.
Probably as a result of the general loss of trust in institutions.
On the other hand, the United States specifically has a long history of what is considered community justice.
Often this happens when the institutions to provide it do not exist yet or fail in their goals.
Similar to losing any kind of arbiter of truth, we are also losing truth in justice.
Truth takes time, the mob is fickle, and the pitchforks are heavy.
- spiralx 6y agoThere certainly wasn't this hysteria about cancel culture when it was solely the tool of large, well-funded conservative and religious organisations - Mothers Against Dungeons & Dragons is the example that comes to mind for me immediately from when I was younger. Now that just any old pleb can express an opinion on the actions and comments of their betters it seems that collective expressions of disapproval with the intent of exerting power is a bad thing! "Cancelling" is a boycott in the marketplace of ideas. The left and the right should find something to appeal to them there!