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I think if it's anything, it's McCarthyism for a new generation. We've done worse, and with more rigor than today's cancel culture, but for however much I migh
by bmelton 4y ago
I think if it's anything, it's McCarthyism for a new generation.
We've done worse, and with more rigor than today's cancel culture, but for however much I might find it distasteful, the stigma borne of cancel culture at least doesn't have the full weight of the law behind it.
- scns 4y agoI'd say it's our monkey genes at work. When Chimps meet a male that is not their brother, they get theirs and kill him. Killing another community completely has been observed in the seventies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War?wprov=sfl...
- bmelton 4y agoI think that's definitely a part of it. Our monkey brains process that there is danger, and (naively) find ways to amliorate it in peer groups. We associate in-groups with safety and out-groups with dangers, and both infinitely large and infinitesimally small in (or out) groups would require the brain to do the much bigger work of individual threat analysis. Delegated decision-making.