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The point apparently being, the people complaining the loudest about cancel culture seem to be the people who were most likely to do these things before the twi
by parrellel 5y ago
The point apparently being, the people complaining the loudest about cancel culture seem to be the people who were most likely to do these things before the twitter mobs. RE: McCarthyism, Freedom Fries, the Satanic Panic.
- lhnz 5y agoMaybe so, but there are a bunch of people quietly watching the situation that absolutely hated right-wing cancellations and that find to their surprise that they also hate left-wing cancellations. To many it seems like while bigotry used to be the best way to bully and intimidate people, now performative anti-bigotry is the best way to bully and intimidate people. So what we see is merely an evolving toolset for sociopaths.
- parrellel 5y agoThat I can definitely agree with. Especially when the right and left wing sociopaths go off on J Random Passerby instead of each other. This doesn't feel like that though, given just how often Ngo shows up in the right-sociopath column. Or, as I said in another comment, Winston Marshall has picked a really weird hill to die on.
- dec0dedab0de 5y agoI think that with religion falling out of favor, many of the people that would be shaming others from a religious context are finding less formal systems of morality from which to cast their judgement.