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One act expresses disagreement, the other - cancel culture - is tied to getting a person fired from their job or otherwise cutting off their ability to feed the
by flippinburgers 5y ago
One act expresses disagreement, the other - cancel culture - is tied to getting a person fired from their job or otherwise cutting off their ability to feed themselves. One of these is vastly more significant than the other.
- _moof 5y agoDownvotes are not for disagreement.
- gruez 5y agoin practice they are.
- AussieWog93 5y agoI like to think of them as a signal to STFU, but as you said this would most likely be targeted at people you disagree with.
- thephyber 5y agoI would argue firings are extremely rare compared to brigading of voting, commenting, reporting systems and trending topics. A reasonable interpretation of “cancel culture” would include the less severe ways of kicking content/people off of platforms as well.