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We want structural change with laws and government regulation! No, you can't have that, the market must decide, it's most efficient! Ok, then when people do t
by ihumanable 6y ago
We want structural change with laws and government regulation!
No, you can't have that, the market must decide, it's most efficient!
Ok, then when people do things we don't like, we will boycott them since we can only use market based solutions.
No, that's cancel culture!
Hmm.... seems like these two ideas together is basically just a long way of saying that those with power should be immune from society at large.
- google234123 6y agoCancel culture is usually trying to get people fired or deplatformed.
- ihumanable 6y agoThe goal of a boycott is to bankrupt a company by depriving it of revenue, thereby firing all the people that work for that company. Deplatforming is just a boycott by proxy, it's the customers of Twitter / Facebook / YouTube / <fill-in-the-social-media-platform> saying that they won't continue to use their platform if the company uses their position to give a megaphone to someone who espouses ideas they don't like. Boycotts have traditionally been seen as a natural part of a free market economy. The same people that are all about "vote with your dollars" have decided that they would really rather you not vote against them with your dollars and have coined a new turn-of-phrase in hopes of evading public scrutiny. I don't subscribe to the concept that there is a meaningful distinction between "canceling" and "boycotting" it's just marketing spin.
- triceratops 6y agoIsn't boycotting a company the same as firing that company?