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I fully agree that the phenomena you refer to are not new, however today's Twitter outrage crowd did not exist 30 years ago, there was no small, vocal group of
by bitcharmer 6y ago
I fully agree that the phenomena you refer to are not new, however today's Twitter outrage crowd did not exist 30 years ago, there was no small, vocal group of people able to bend huge corporations to their will or steer public discourse or shape narrative of major events as it happens today.
It just wasn't happening at this scale in the past. This is new.
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- gremlinsinc 6y agoDixie Chicks in/around 2004/2005 went public against the war in Iraq. At the same time sales for Dixie Chicks albums plummeted because they're "too liberal". This was before twitter was a thing, facebook was "barely" a thing, myspace was dying...etc. 1968 (year may be off)...iirc there was a huge huge march (I've seen videos, before my birth) against the Vietnam War... you could say they were trying to "cancel" the war...guess that never happened either because something that big couldn't exist without Twitter. In the middle ages over 300k women were murdered as accused witches, amazingly no twitter is responsible for canceling witches either. 1776 ... a few colonists decided to "cancel" their ties to Great Britain. 1860 ... a few traitorous racists decided to cancel their "ties" to the union... all these things without Twitter.