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The biggest difference is that cancel culture is slightly inconveniencing the powerful. The less powerful have been "canceled" for decades, not just in the US,

The biggest difference is that cancel culture is slightly inconveniencing the powerful. The less powerful have been "canceled" for decades, not just in the US, but everywhere. How many courses on Marxism/Communism do you see in US academia? In the meanwhile, US colleges have entire departments dedicated to Capitalism (Business school). In the Soviet Union, the opposite was true. (For the record, I'm extremely pro capitalism, and to the extent I criticize it it's because I believe that it can get better, whereas AFAICT, other economic systems have largely failed except in very specific and limited scenarios).

yucky 4y ago
>The less powerful have been "canceled" for decades I was under the impression that was a bad thing. Are we saying it's not longer a bad thing if it affects other people? Or is it more a type of schadenfreude?
legostormtroopr 4y ago
> How many courses on Marxism/Communism do you see in US academia? At least three from top tier universities [1][2][3], but probably many, many more [4]. > In the meanwhile, US colleges have entire departments dedicated to Capitalism (Business school). The idea that communism or leftism is 'cancelled' in academia very unfounded, and one of the chief complaints by the right and points-of-pride of the left. Business is not capitalism, and vice versa. Trade and the creation of companies happened well before capitalism was an idea. Likewise, business schools study the mechanism of business and its applications (eg. accounting, finance, HR, strategy), which can take place outside of capitalism. [1] https://history.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/course-details/173-general/comparative-history/1551-01-506-361-history-of-socialism-and-communism-3 https://history.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/course-d... [2] https://pll.harvard.edu/course/china-part-9-communist-liberations https://pll.harvard.edu/course/china-part-9-communist-libera... [3] https://polisci.berkeley.edu/course/selected-topics-comparative-politics-rise-and-fall-world-communism-20th-century https://polisci.berkeley.edu/course/selected-topics-comparat... [4] https://www.google.com/search?q=communism+university+course+site%3A.edu https://www.google.com/search?q=communism+university+course+...
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yucky 4y ago

>The less powerful have been "canceled" for decades I was under the impression that was a bad thing. Are we saying it's not longer a bad thing if it affects other people? Or is it more a type of schadenfreude?

legostormtroopr 4y ago

> How many courses on Marxism/Communism do you see in US academia? At least three from top tier universities [1][2][3], but probably many, many more [4]. > In the meanwhile, US colleges have entire departments dedicated to Capitalism (Business school). The idea that communism or leftism is 'cancelled' in academia very unfounded, and one of the chief complaints by the right and points-of-pride of the left. Business is not capitalism, and vice versa. Trade and the creation of companies happened well before capitalism was an idea. Likewise, business schools study the mechanism of business and its applications (eg. accounting, finance, HR, strategy), which can take place outside of capitalism. [1] https://history.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/course-details/173-general/comparative-history/1551-01-506-361-history-of-socialism-and-communism-3 https://history.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/course-d... [2] https://pll.harvard.edu/course/china-part-9-communist-liberations https://pll.harvard.edu/course/china-part-9-communist-libera... [3] https://polisci.berkeley.edu/course/selected-topics-comparative-politics-rise-and-fall-world-communism-20th-century https://polisci.berkeley.edu/course/selected-topics-comparat... [4] https://www.google.com/search?q=communism+university+course+site%3A.edu https://www.google.com/search?q=communism+university+course+...

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