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> canceling is a label applied to play the victim What word should we use instead then? What word is suitable to describe low-context, online-mob-driven pile-
by adamisom 4y ago
> canceling is a label applied to play the victim
What word should we use instead then?
What word is suitable to describe low-context, online-mob-driven pile-ons / denunciations?
(Perhaps you’ve never seen that happen?—that would be remarkable.)
- avs733 4y agoYou just described it? The problem, as usual, being that you are trying to describe something with a term where the common usage is just plain bad faith. Unfairly attacked? Harassed? There’s lots of words…the common usage of cancelling is none of them nor what you described. The common usage is what no one in this thread seems to want to admit. And it’s why the same people who cry about cancel culture want to use it’s supposed existence as a reason to actually restrict others free speech.
- adamisom 4y agoI think a new word or phrase is in order because a new dynamic exists (a sufficiently quantitative difference equals a qualitative one) where this sort of thing doesn't just happen but is characteristic of today's web. But I think I see your point. It's a phrase that can be used lazily and in bad faith and itself contribute to degraded discourse.
- avs733 4y agoAppreciate that this can be a reasonable conversation. It’s important to note that there is a significant portion of the people employing this term in bad faith who are doing now intentionally and to cause confusion. The problem with a new term is that it will, almost inherently, be co-opted by these same groups. The attempts to mislabel are intentional and coordinated. I think you are coming from a good hearted place, and it’s nice to be able to have this convo, but a new label won’t fix it because the label isn’t the problem the use is.