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They are getting cancelled, only it's the Chinese government making the call on what's "bad" and pulling the trigger, not braying Twitter mobs. The net effect

They are getting cancelled, only it's the Chinese government making the call on what's "bad" and pulling the trigger, not braying Twitter mobs. The net effect is the same though: the targets are deprived of their platform and their income.

antifa 5y ago
The use of "cancel culture" in this context is not only just wrong, it's also bizarre, seems like some kind of ideological keyword stuffing.
- rektide 5y ago
  Yeah. The economist paralleling the two is carrying massive massive water for weak kneed authoritarianism. Oh no, their haircut wasnt manly enough for us leaders taste, gonna stop that is far far removed from a principled, with cause outcry against predators & abuse. There's some serious fucked up 1984 oceania was always at war with Eastasia shit going on in this econist pueces & these threads. the production, that there are similar forces, is horseshit. society expressing it's democratic view of whats ok versus leaders forcing cancellation, mandating what culture can be without any will of the people- one leads clearly to heaven & i like jefferson swear i will forever stand against tyranny. i refuse that hell. serious propoganda mind bending shit, bending way over to accomodate low petty stupid blunt authoriarianism. to be clear, there are hella problems with inverted totalitarianism. there are dangers of mob rule, of dumber populist senses. but holy shit, the amount of efforts i see in these threads to horseshoe the issues around, to say that the two problems are the same, regardless of whether it's a few projecting narrow minded stupidity or a masser body- it's ignorant & stupid in the extreme to say these are at all the same. sure there may be some symptoms. but fuck this apologia, fuck saying they are the same, fuck this so much. one could not work harder to sabotage democracia.
  - gcharris 5y ago
    Amen. Took the words out of my mouth.
  - polotics 5y ago
    Have you received your summons from the ministry of love yet? ;-)
kennywinker 5y ago
"The net effect is the same though" Nope. If millions of people want you out of the public sphere that's different from a few politicians deciding they want you out of the public sphere. Saying those are the same is incredible short sighted and wrong. For example, the "braying twitter mobs" can't dis-appear anyone, or put them on a no-fly list.

antifa 5y ago

The use of "cancel culture" in this context is not only just wrong, it's also bizarre, seems like some kind of ideological keyword stuffing.

rektide 5y ago
Yeah. The economist paralleling the two is carrying massive massive water for weak kneed authoritarianism. Oh no, their haircut wasnt manly enough for us leaders taste, gonna stop that is far far removed from a principled, with cause outcry against predators & abuse. There's some serious fucked up 1984 oceania was always at war with Eastasia shit going on in this econist pueces & these threads. the production, that there are similar forces, is horseshit. society expressing it's democratic view of whats ok versus leaders forcing cancellation, mandating what culture can be without any will of the people- one leads clearly to heaven & i like jefferson swear i will forever stand against tyranny. i refuse that hell. serious propoganda mind bending shit, bending way over to accomodate low petty stupid blunt authoriarianism. to be clear, there are hella problems with inverted totalitarianism. there are dangers of mob rule, of dumber populist senses. but holy shit, the amount of efforts i see in these threads to horseshoe the issues around, to say that the two problems are the same, regardless of whether it's a few projecting narrow minded stupidity or a masser body- it's ignorant & stupid in the extreme to say these are at all the same. sure there may be some symptoms. but fuck this apologia, fuck saying they are the same, fuck this so much. one could not work harder to sabotage democracia.
- gcharris 5y ago
  Amen. Took the words out of my mouth.
- polotics 5y ago
  Have you received your summons from the ministry of love yet? ;-)

kennywinker 5y ago

"The net effect is the same though" Nope. If millions of people want you out of the public sphere that's different from a few politicians deciding they want you out of the public sphere. Saying those are the same is incredible short sighted and wrong. For example, the "braying twitter mobs" can't dis-appear anyone, or put them on a no-fly list.