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Please name a single instance of an individual being “cancelled” for anything but bigotry, hatred, violence, or dangerous rhetoric. I’ll wait. People aren’t be
by eh9 4y ago
Please name a single instance of an individual being “cancelled” for anything but bigotry, hatred, violence, or dangerous rhetoric. I’ll wait.
People aren’t being cancelled for speaking their minds. They’re being cancelled when speaking their minds is literally offensive to small and large groups of people.
Almost every time someone is complaining about cancel culture, what they’re really complaining about is being held accountable for the dumb shit they say or want to say.
Also, “shifting social norms”, lol, from what to what, if you don’t mind me asking?!
Edit: you can downvote me but you can’t produce a single example.
- throwaway675309 4y agoDonglegate would like a word with you.
- eh9 4y agoBros being unprofessional?
- Gunax 4y ago[flagged]
- eh9 4y agoThis is the dumbest comment I’ve read on here.
- dang 4y agoName-calling isn't allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Also, please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 4y agoPlease don't take HN threads into gender flamewar. This was quite gratuitous. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- patrick451 4y agoIf you can't offend, you can't dissent. Anything is offensive to somebody. Frankly, I'm not interested in examples that weave their way through your maze of exceptions for what you deem to be acceptable dissent. I care about the people spouting "dangerous rhetoric", whatever that is, getting cancelled.
- eh9 4y ago“Maze of exceptions” so you want to hear racism and violence? Gtfo if Andrew Tate is what you want.
- Gunax 4y agoI don't think an answer will satisy you because anything can be bigotry. Or more aplty: the problem is we have a deep divide in what constitutes bigotry. A significant portion of Americans oppose gay marriage, and a roughly equal portion would consider that bigotry. You cannot run a society that way. Im not necessarily trying to say you're wrong. Rather, I am trying to infuse some humility and shades of grey into a situation that I think you're portraying as black-and-white.