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There is a galaxy of difference between offensive speech and child rape.

• daveoc64 6y ago
  Yes, but that's not really the relevant thing. People get "cancelled" when a large enough group of people think someone has done something wrong. It just happens to be the case here that the group is very large, but it's fundamentally no different to other cases where people have been "cancelled".
  • SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
    Most people I've talked to who are concerned about "cancel culture" are concerned about the dynamic where even a small group of people can get someone fired by being very loud about it. (I do agree with your implicit statement that it's not a very helpful term to use, though - at this point it's been too thoroughly repurposed for weird political battles.)
• notahacker 6y ago
  Absolutely. But she isn't accused of child rape, she is accused of exercising terrible judgement which is also very bad PR for Reddit involving employing a subsequently convicted child rapist who happened to be her father, apparently in the belief he was not dangerous and also standing by her partner after his very offensive erotica was revealed. (of course it's possible to argue that this raises very serious concerns about her ability to identify and deal with dangerous behaviour and possibly even sympathies for it, but the same goes for certain kinds of offensive speech)
  • geoduck14 6y ago
    Someone else on this thread pit it well: This person has a demonstrative history that supports sex crimes against children (see: supporting her father, supporting her partner). This person is/was in a position to influence what was seen by children (a mod for /teen) on a website that links to gore and porn. If this person was a software engineer - I wouldn't care. If this person was my babysitter- I would care. This person moderates content on r/teen - I care.