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Cancel culture only really pings on right wing culture issues. There’s plenty of exciting and quirky things people can do that aren’t that, like being really in

Cancel culture only really pings on right wing culture issues. There’s plenty of exciting and quirky things people can do that aren’t that, like being really into taxidermy, or having a huge predatory insect collection. Or being into a scene like goth or raves. I would even consider, idk, having a huge passion in a specific country’s literature to be quirky, like imagine someone who is hugely in love with Congolese literature.

wonderwonder 4y ago
sure, but just because it focuses on a single culture issue does not mean the bandits are not real, they have just not focused on your area yet. Does the fact its focused only on right wing cultural issues make it ok? Does that make the people attacking them and attempting to get them fired any less of a "bandit" to use the articles term? There have been several articles on parents being arrested for allowing their kids to "free range". Right wing focuses on drag shows. Its all over the place. Bandits are everywhere.
- bilbo0s 4y ago
  I think where you're going off the rails is with the idea of "social predators" at all. I mean, there are no bandits. A right wing racist is just a part of society, with the freedom and the right to express his/her opinion and associate with those whom s/he pleases. Where is the "banditry" in that? The person opposed to the right wing racist is just a part of society, with the freedom and the right to express his/her opinion and associate with those whom s/he pleases. Where is the "banditry" in that? Maybe it would be helpful if you could outline why you believe those exercising, say, Constitutional freedoms in the US, are "bandits" or "social predators", as opposed to being just regular members of society acting in the fashion their Constitution intended?
  - ben_w 4y ago
    I think you're taking the term "bandit" too literally; I'm reading it as a metaphor, just like the use of the word "piracy" for "copyright infringement" — even though there are going to be some people who will look for the loud and open, and decide to literally rob them, I see the issues discussed in the post as being nothing to do with that dollar-money kind of thing, and all to with the loss of social capital. And now I write that, I realise that what is here called "bandit" used to be called "troll" back in the late 90s. And before the internet, "antisocial youths loitering in malls". Also, https://xkcd.com/677 https://xkcd.com/677 comes to mind.
ben_w 4y ago
The quotation "cancel culture" may be associated with a particular tribe, just as the words "liberal", "conservative" are, but in all such cases the idea expressed is broader. Just as the Republican party is big on personal liberty and the Democrat party is (I think?) trying to conserve the environment, today there are some people trying to "cancel" anyone who is pro-trans and others trying to cancel anyone who is anti-trans. I see stuff like this pop up in all sorts of surprising contexts, including someone who was convinced that "epileptics are all faking it", a parter's mother who thought I had to be lying when I said I was vegetarian, and some weirdo who began campaigning against all apps made in the Xojo programming language because he didn't like the company's decision to change the design of its IDE's user interface.
- watwut 4y ago
  Republican party is not big on personal liberty. Like, not at all they are big on limiting it for put groups. They like to shout about liberty tp cover themselve literally trying to outlaw whole range of ideas and harmless behaviors.
Viliam1234 4y ago
> Cancel culture only really pings on right wing culture issues. There’s plenty of exciting and quirky things people can do that aren’t that Yeah, like playing computer games, for example. And then you suddenly get Gamergate. Or the knitting controversy. A hobby can be harmless, and then suddenly it is not.
- watwut 4y ago
  Gamer gate was literally opposite of liberal cancel culture. That was young gamers having feels hurt over an article and literally trying to cancel who they perceived to be too feminists.

wonderwonder 4y ago

sure, but just because it focuses on a single culture issue does not mean the bandits are not real, they have just not focused on your area yet. Does the fact its focused only on right wing cultural issues make it ok? Does that make the people attacking them and attempting to get them fired any less of a "bandit" to use the articles term? There have been several articles on parents being arrested for allowing their kids to "free range". Right wing focuses on drag shows. Its all over the place. Bandits are everywhere.

bilbo0s 4y ago
I think where you're going off the rails is with the idea of "social predators" at all. I mean, there are no bandits. A right wing racist is just a part of society, with the freedom and the right to express his/her opinion and associate with those whom s/he pleases. Where is the "banditry" in that? The person opposed to the right wing racist is just a part of society, with the freedom and the right to express his/her opinion and associate with those whom s/he pleases. Where is the "banditry" in that? Maybe it would be helpful if you could outline why you believe those exercising, say, Constitutional freedoms in the US, are "bandits" or "social predators", as opposed to being just regular members of society acting in the fashion their Constitution intended?
- ben_w 4y ago
  I think you're taking the term "bandit" too literally; I'm reading it as a metaphor, just like the use of the word "piracy" for "copyright infringement" — even though there are going to be some people who will look for the loud and open, and decide to literally rob them, I see the issues discussed in the post as being nothing to do with that dollar-money kind of thing, and all to with the loss of social capital. And now I write that, I realise that what is here called "bandit" used to be called "troll" back in the late 90s. And before the internet, "antisocial youths loitering in malls". Also, https://xkcd.com/677 https://xkcd.com/677 comes to mind.

ben_w 4y ago

The quotation "cancel culture" may be associated with a particular tribe, just as the words "liberal", "conservative" are, but in all such cases the idea expressed is broader. Just as the Republican party is big on personal liberty and the Democrat party is (I think?) trying to conserve the environment, today there are some people trying to "cancel" anyone who is pro-trans and others trying to cancel anyone who is anti-trans. I see stuff like this pop up in all sorts of surprising contexts, including someone who was convinced that "epileptics are all faking it", a parter's mother who thought I had to be lying when I said I was vegetarian, and some weirdo who began campaigning against all apps made in the Xojo programming language because he didn't like the company's decision to change the design of its IDE's user interface.

watwut 4y ago
Republican party is not big on personal liberty. Like, not at all they are big on limiting it for put groups. They like to shout about liberty tp cover themselve literally trying to outlaw whole range of ideas and harmless behaviors.

Viliam1234 4y ago

> Cancel culture only really pings on right wing culture issues. There’s plenty of exciting and quirky things people can do that aren’t that Yeah, like playing computer games, for example. And then you suddenly get Gamergate. Or the knitting controversy. A hobby can be harmless, and then suddenly it is not.

watwut 4y ago
Gamer gate was literally opposite of liberal cancel culture. That was young gamers having feels hurt over an article and literally trying to cancel who they perceived to be too feminists.