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Sometimes though, they get it really right. Before the legal issues Alex Jones was very much being 'cancelled' or at least ostracized. He has made over 200 mil
by gremlinsinc 4y ago
Sometimes though, they get it really right. Before the legal issues Alex Jones was very much being 'cancelled' or at least ostracized.
He has made over 200 million though from his platform, and conspiracy talk show, and decided it was a good idea to pester and make fun of people who's kids died in a gruesome shooting. Seriously, there's an evil bar and he's just slightly above serial killers and hitler. Running a grieving parent who's 6 year old was murdered and claiming they're a hoax and not real.
I can't imagine going any lower than that, and in a case like that he definitely should be cancelled.
Bill Cosby is another good example, he should be a pariah.
I feel sometimes maybe the back and forth online open 'battles' can become evidence in court for injustices, so maybe the answer would be an immutable Twitter where what you say can't be erased and to get an account you must be 'verified' so you better be damn sure you want to say what you want to say to the whole world.
i'd be much more hesitant if words had permanency with screenshots they still kinda do, but at least then you can claim it was photoshopped, hell AI could probably easily make screenshots of tweets that never happened.
Cancelling happens on the left too, Chris Matthews called Bernie a nazi, was afraid he'd hang him when he became president, and called his supporters brown shirts which is very derogatory because those were basically Nazi's and Bernie had relatives killed in the Holocaust. Of course turnabout is fair play, as Chris Matthews was cancelled shortly thereafter.
Dr. Jason (can't remember last name) black guy on MSNBC called Bernie's female supports the "island of misfit black girls". He received a lot less airtime after that, again rightfully so.
I still have a hard time seeing where canceling isn't anything more than just accountability.
ADHD has me all of the place on this issue, but I guess my tLDR:
Often mob justice is the only justice anybody will get so it is warranted, and it happens at all points on the political spectrum, I feel it's childish perhaps to think you as the center of your universe are getting unfairly dished on and can't take the heat, having autism/adhd I've said things before online and had some depression from backlash, often I just mispoke and sure it made me more cautious about what I say, sometimes but it made me more cautious.
People SHOULD be cautious about what they say online because it lives on forever. Sometimes you need to get 'burned' before you can realize oops I see that was wrong. At this point 'cancel culture' though seems to be a childish cry of people who want everyone to think they're the 'victim', and I just don't see most of these people as real victims. Sorry, not sorry.
- chrismcb 4y agoThe problem is when you do or say something outside of your job. A lot of your examples were people doing or saying something on the job. The biggest problem I have with cancel culture is it almost amounts to a death sentence. If you can lose your job for something that happened years ago, then the mob is basically saying you should never have a job again. That is an outsized reaction.