More than disincentivizing the borderline ideas of today (something that has always happened everywhere) it also disincentive the borderline ideas of tomorrow (

More than disincentivizing the borderline ideas of today (something that has always happened everywhere) it also disincentive the borderline ideas of tomorrow (something that is generally correlated with oppressive regimes) something fun happened a few weeks back: someone made a compilation of all the time Joe Rogan said the n-word; the Young Turks made a segment how inexcusable it was to say it "so many times"; someone made a compilation of all the time the Young Turks; some time later on an unrelated topic regarding dwarfism the Young Turks went on a rant about it being impossible to know whether the word dwarf was a slur or not and worrying about a new d-word compilation in 5 years the particular details of what is cancel culture elude me, I am not smart enough to define it. but I find this future-based self-censoring (not based on visible trends but hypothetical ones) to be corrosive