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> Cancelling someone is also known as freedom of association Personally, I don't care that it's age old. It's still not okay, and I don't care whether it's bet
by kodah 5y ago
> Cancelling someone is also known as freedom of association
Personally, I don't care that it's age old. It's still not okay, and I don't care whether it's better or worse in modern times. I'm not even sure how far outside of propaganda some of this stuff falls, which ironically has the opposite reception from the public.
- ceejayoz 5y agoIt's not OK to choose not to hang out with someone because you've heard they did something shitty?
- kodah 5y agoYou can absolutely make a personal choice. The moment that you start tricking yourself into thinking that narrative manipulation, harassment, trolling, stalking, etc to get others to make that same personal choice are part of some high moral stance is what people get angry at cancel culture about. There is quite a distinction.
- ceejayoz 5y agoI can’t use my free speech to encourage someone to make the same choice? Trying to conflate “cancel culture” with the already-illegal concepts of stalking and harassment is disingenuous. Trolling and “narrative manipulation” are pretty clear protected free expression.
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- kodah 5y agoI don't really get your point about free speech. That's a government protection. What I am talking about is the tendency of mobs to act as conduits of misinformation and abuse while projecting some form of morality en masse. It teeters on being more harmful than the thing they're mobbing about, typically.