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You're reading too much into my comment. I specifically tried to stay neutral because this sort of tactical escalation could come from either side. In no way am

You're reading too much into my comment. I specifically tried to stay neutral because this sort of tactical escalation could come from either side. In no way am I attempting to "define free speech as some narrow window of speech that I agree with". I'm specifically talking about people using seemingly private data to comb over people's private statements, which is a bad thing regardless of the content of those private statements.

slg 4y ago
>You're reading too much into my comment. I specifically tried to stay neutral because this sort of tactical escalation could come from either side. Fair enough, but you should know that calling out cancelation as a growing flaw of society will often not be received as a neutral position. The people who complain the loudest about cancelation generally do not come from "either side". It ends up making your comment appear to have a specific political slant even if that wasn't intentional.
- chitowneats 4y ago
  "One side often uses a particular tactic against their enemies (cancellation). You criticizing it makes you sound biased". No. The only one here who comes off as biased is you.
- StanislavPetrov 4y ago
  >Fair enough, but you should know that calling out cancelation as a growing flaw of society will often not be received as a neutral position Unfortunately, to those who view the world through the warped prism of partisanship, there are no neutral positions. Everything is tribal - Red or Blue. Statements aren't ever read with an open mind about what is actually being discussed, but rather scrutinized for indications about whether the author is on one team or the other, so they can be either supported or attacked. >It ends up making your comment appear to have a specific political slant even if that wasn't intentional. To tribalists, everything has a political slant.
- mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
  >> The people who complain the loudest about cancelation generally do not come from "either side". Look you aren't wrong exactly but for those of us who grew up being incredibly left aligned and still are on a majority of things like myself expressing concerns about cancellation will make others put us in the out group. Genuinely though I am concerned about it because I think it has a tendency to encourage people to think about others one dimensionally. One of my friends has told another one of my friends that they are a bad person for not cutting someone out of their life because that person voted for the LNP (the major Australian conservative party). This is trying to guilt and shame someone into "cancelling" someone else on a micro scale and it freaks me the fuck out. I genuinely don't think this would have happened if cancel culture wasn't such a thing. >> It ends up making your comment appear to have a specific political slant even if that wasn't intentional. This kind of thing also worries me, the idea that viewing a single thing as a flaw culturally speaking is enough to put someone on a specific political slant. To me it feels somewhat prejudicial. I am not going to pretend I've not been guilty of it, because I absolutely have... just it feels to me like everyone is very quick to take positions on a particular thing as evidence as a side in an all encompassing culture war and I hate it

slg 4y ago

>You're reading too much into my comment. I specifically tried to stay neutral because this sort of tactical escalation could come from either side. Fair enough, but you should know that calling out cancelation as a growing flaw of society will often not be received as a neutral position. The people who complain the loudest about cancelation generally do not come from "either side". It ends up making your comment appear to have a specific political slant even if that wasn't intentional.

chitowneats 4y ago
"One side often uses a particular tactic against their enemies (cancellation). You criticizing it makes you sound biased". No. The only one here who comes off as biased is you.
StanislavPetrov 4y ago
>Fair enough, but you should know that calling out cancelation as a growing flaw of society will often not be received as a neutral position Unfortunately, to those who view the world through the warped prism of partisanship, there are no neutral positions. Everything is tribal - Red or Blue. Statements aren't ever read with an open mind about what is actually being discussed, but rather scrutinized for indications about whether the author is on one team or the other, so they can be either supported or attacked. >It ends up making your comment appear to have a specific political slant even if that wasn't intentional. To tribalists, everything has a political slant.
mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
>> The people who complain the loudest about cancelation generally do not come from "either side". Look you aren't wrong exactly but for those of us who grew up being incredibly left aligned and still are on a majority of things like myself expressing concerns about cancellation will make others put us in the out group. Genuinely though I am concerned about it because I think it has a tendency to encourage people to think about others one dimensionally. One of my friends has told another one of my friends that they are a bad person for not cutting someone out of their life because that person voted for the LNP (the major Australian conservative party). This is trying to guilt and shame someone into "cancelling" someone else on a micro scale and it freaks me the fuck out. I genuinely don't think this would have happened if cancel culture wasn't such a thing. >> It ends up making your comment appear to have a specific political slant even if that wasn't intentional. This kind of thing also worries me, the idea that viewing a single thing as a flaw culturally speaking is enough to put someone on a specific political slant. To me it feels somewhat prejudicial. I am not going to pretend I've not been guilty of it, because I absolutely have... just it feels to me like everyone is very quick to take positions on a particular thing as evidence as a side in an all encompassing culture war and I hate it