> No, this is not the purpose. I say this as someone who uses the phrase. Please do not try to explain my own intentions to me. This may not be your intention,

> No, this is not the purpose. I say this as someone who uses the phrase. Please do not try to explain my own intentions to me. This may not be your intention, but these actions certainly do a lot to help the people whose purpose it is to silence criticism. That's my point. Intentions certainly do matter, but so do results. > If you unjustly vilify me The word "unjustly" bearing a whole lot of weight in this sentence. Do we agree that people can be justly vilified then? And then suffer the natural consequences of that? Because that's basically my point in a nutshell. It's great to make the theoretical argument about "extra judicial justice" and "laws should be used to decide these things", but there's no practical way to adjudicate every single human interaction with written laws. It just doesn't work. Instead we have a system where people are allowed to speak their minds and other people are allowed to tell them to shut up. I wouldn't call it perfect, but I haven't heard much in the way of viable alternatives. > Under capitalism, being unemployed is not a "neutral position". Sounds like your issue is with capitalism, not cancellation.