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Freud Explains Cancel Culture
- bediger4000 4y agoWhat's up with WSJ's anti cancel culture campaign? I mean freedom of association means that everyone can, and does, shun certain people. That difficult neighbor who only talks about the gold standard, maybe. Your cousin who just mooches money. In the 50s, there was organized shunning - McCarthyism cancelled academics, actors, screenwriters with the "wrong" politics. We all do this, we've always done this. Sometimes there's problems (McCarthyism seems to have been a power play), sometimes it's legit. The NYT's anti cancel culture campaign seems to be done out of fear that nobody will invite their star opinion writers to parties.
- alexb_ 4y agoIt's very easy to be pro-shunning when you are on the inside.
- bediger4000 4y agoBut it's important to set boundaries, both personally and societally. Ease + importance means we're going to do it. WSJ or NYT campaigning against something widespread and important seems quixotic.
- jfengel 4y agoThey insist that not only do they have the right to speak, but you must listen. It's part of a much larger, long-term culture war. Many people find it reprehensible, so the WSJ and ideological fellow travelers have to shout louder. Anybody who tries to ignore it will be forced to listen. "Cancel culture" is the dog-whistle they use for their ideological opponents. They do the same thing, all the time, but it's only "cancel culture" when it's done to them. The obvious hypocrisies don't matter. The dog whistle provides just enough deniability to ignore them, in service of the longer-term goal.
- alexb_ 4y agohttps://archive.ph/nHJGU https://archive.ph/nHJGU