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I am not sure how any of your comment disproved cancel culture Cancel Culture is a form of targeted harassment, generally originating online but not exclusive

by syshum 5y ago

I am not sure how any of your comment disproved cancel culture Cancel Culture is a form of targeted harassment, generally originating online but not exclusive to that domain, where a group of individuals take offense to comments, opinions, jokes or "hot takes" then having become offend proceed either in coordination with others or not to contact the target of their harassment employers, landlords, business associates, family members, schools, etc in an effort to interfere with the relationships (personal or business) they have with the target of the harassment. It is very much real, it is very much a reality, and it goes beyond simply "boycotts" of a business with a policy one dislikes. People continuing to deny the existence of cancel culture highlights either an extreme ignorance of the modern world, or a willful disingenuous gaslighting in order to aid and continue to perpetuate cancel culture. I will leave it open to debate which of the 2 you are.

JamesBarney 5y ago
I think of cancel culture as a cultural shift away from the enlightenment culture explemplified by "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Codified with a question of "should you combat bad speech with good speech or with silencing?"
- syshum 5y ago
  I think they are linked but I would define the cultural shift as something separate, canceling of people is a symptom / result of this cultural shift so they are linked. However there are other aspects of this shift that fall outside of cancel culture. For example the fact that a platform like twitter can have a CEO that publicly supports the rejection of the 1st amendment is also a symptom of this cultural shift, a few decades ago that would not have been possible, in fact it likely would have resulted in high level board meetings and a PR disaster in the 80's and 90's if a CEO of a large public company would have stated opposition to free speech. We has a nation (the US) have lost desire to uphold the cultural principle of free expression, the law has become a needed check on this cultural shift but sadly the law only survives as a check for 2 maybe 3 generations, if we do not do something to shift us back to being a culture that respects free expression the law will fall to the new culture of non-expression or controlled expression and a new dark ages will emerge

by syshum 5y ago

JamesBarney 5y ago

I think of cancel culture as a cultural shift away from the enlightenment culture explemplified by "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Codified with a question of "should you combat bad speech with good speech or with silencing?"

syshum 5y ago
I think they are linked but I would define the cultural shift as something separate, canceling of people is a symptom / result of this cultural shift so they are linked. However there are other aspects of this shift that fall outside of cancel culture. For example the fact that a platform like twitter can have a CEO that publicly supports the rejection of the 1st amendment is also a symptom of this cultural shift, a few decades ago that would not have been possible, in fact it likely would have resulted in high level board meetings and a PR disaster in the 80's and 90's if a CEO of a large public company would have stated opposition to free speech. We has a nation (the US) have lost desire to uphold the cultural principle of free expression, the law has become a needed check on this cultural shift but sadly the law only survives as a check for 2 maybe 3 generations, if we do not do something to shift us back to being a culture that respects free expression the law will fall to the new culture of non-expression or controlled expression and a new dark ages will emerge