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> cancel culture looks a lot like plain old boring boycotts Yes, plain old boycotts against a person livelihood without any strict necessity of evidence, recou
by marcosdumay 2y ago
> cancel culture looks a lot like plain old boring boycotts
Yes, plain old boycotts against a person livelihood without any strict necessity of evidence, recourse, or defense.
- intended 2y agoYes, this is how social boycotts worked. They aren’t nice. Ostracized is an OLD Greek Civ word. Shunning is another. I am beginning to suspect people are unaware of how messy any form of mass activism ends up being. Mass being the keyword here. The point being made was about the inevitability of this form of collective action. Cancel culture is fundamentally about the little guy exerting collective power, based on the older rhetoric limiting people to consumers. That bell has been rung. Never said that the little guy is going to get it right, or that it’s easy to wield this power.
- endoblast 2y ago>Never said that the little guy is going to get it right, or that it’s easy to wield this power. It's worse than that. For instance in the UK the Establishment itself is dominated by people who regard themselves as victims in one way or another. As victims they are the de facto little guys and act with impunity.