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> The difference is that now "cancelled" means a few commentators call you out and your life and career are never affected in the slightest. Weird to read this
by xp84 10mo ago
> The difference is that now "cancelled" means a few commentators call you out and your life and career are never affected in the slightest.
Weird to read this assertion in a thread about Scott Adams, who literally had his whole career ended. That's literally the opposite of what you said.
Also let's remember that he was cancelled for saying that if black people (poll respondents) say "it's not okay to be white" that's espousing hate and he wants nothing to do with them.
If white people said "it's not okay to be black," that's certainly white supremacy. But the rules are different.
- femiagbabiaka 10mo ago> Weird to read this assertion in a thread about Scott Adams, who literally had his whole career ended. That's literally the opposite of what you said. Nah, he continued to grift off the right wing while saying more and more unhinged shit until he shuffled off this mortal coil. > Also let's remember that he was cancelled for saying that if black people (poll respondents) say "it's not okay to be white" that's espousing hate and he wants nothing to do with them. Could it perhaps have anything to do with the fact that that's a 4chan-originated dogwhistle that was hyper-viral at the time? Why do you think they were asking about it in the first place? It was in the context of the fact that the ADL had identified it as secret hate speech, in the same line of the 14 words. > If white people said "it's not okay to be black," that's certainly white supremacy. But the rules are different. The president of the most powerful country on earth and the richest man in the world say things like that all the time. Why the victim complex?
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- femiagbabiaka 10mo agoI could say what it makes you but I'm trying not to get banned.
- rustystump 10mo agoWater it down more. Pretty soon you will be in the same bucket of water as I. ;)
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- account42 10mo agoSorry but hybrid builds are no longer allowed. Please respec to conform to one of the approved archetypes.
- grosswait 10mo ago[flagged]
- femiagbabiaka 10mo agoThe credibility of the claim is literally besides the point. It's about the information that was conveyed to contextualize the question in the survey! Does anyone have media literacy anymore?
- cthor 10mo agoThey do. They understand you cited ADL in lieu of an argument. If it could stand on its own you wouldn't need the citation and guilt-by-association. They understand the culmination of all the surrounding context reduces to a schmittian friend-enemy distinction where you are placing yourself as enemy. Everything else is sophistry.
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- xp84 10mo agoYou’re not stuck. Aren’t there any other countries that would take you?
- femiagbabiaka 10mo agoI could buy a golden visa nearly anywhere. But adults have obligations, watching your president tear families apart should've made you realize that.
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- kelnos 10mo ago> Someone who makes their living from their art adjusts it to the preferences of the remaining customer base. If that means "making racist art", then I think that says a lot of validating things about why most of his original customer base abandoned him. > the fact that the woke crowd objects to that while being fine with essentially the same statement levied against whites. This reads like the classic "things right-wingers believe about leftists that have nothing to do with what leftists actually believe".
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- closetkantian 10mo agoIt seems that you're not very familiar with what actually happened. The phrase "It's okay to be white" had become associated with white supremacists, And black people's responses to the pole had nothing to do with their opinions of white people as a whole. You, as well as Scott Adams, decided to misinterpret it. Scott Adams took things a step further and decided that he wanted nothing to do with black people on the simple basis of this poll, which is absolutely wild.
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- grosswait 10mo agoMy gosh talk about projecting your own feelings onto others.
- jmye 10mo ago> BLM on their open hatred of white people. I think my eyes just rolled out of my head. Firstly because you think “BLM” was a someone you can attribute an opinion to, and secondly, the mind-numbingly idiotic view you did ascribe to “them”. Turn off cable news and Twitter; it may help.
- serf 10mo ago>Firstly because you think “BLM” was a someone you can attribute an opinion to three people coined the phrase and made a lot of money on it through donations, interviews, grants, books, media, etc. Yes, BLM the movement and actions may be decentralized -- let's not pretend there weren't profiteering ringleaders at any given point[0], and they most definitely had vocal opinions. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Garza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Garza , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrisse_Cullors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrisse_Cullors , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay%E1%BB%8D_Tometi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay%E1%BB%8D_Tometi
- mock-possum 10mo agoIf that’s the ‘only’ thing he was canceled for, then how do you explain content of the comics he started making after he was called out, once the mask came off? Do you think he was driven to that by cancel culture? Or do you think he just got tired of pretending to care, and started ‘telling it like it is?’
- qcnguy 10mo agoBeing cancelled for saying "it's really scary that half of all black people don't agree it's ok to be white" would radicalize anyone. The fact itself radicalizes people, the hysterical reaction of the left radicalizes people even more.
- the_af 10mo agoBut where does this self-indulgent excuse ends? You can argue BLM itself got radicalized into extreme positions by the radicalized mistreatment of black people, and so on. At some point, if Scott Adams behaved like a bigot, we should stop making excuses for him. Becoming "radicalized" through life's hardships is not an excuse, unless we also grant this excuse to BLM et al. Otherwise it's selective slack-cutting.
- qcnguy 10mo agoThe BLM movement hasn't suffered any hardships. They were the opposite of cancelled: BLM were donated over $90M. (they embezzled large parts of it. one of them just got charged with wire fraud and money laundering https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/executive-director-black-lives-matter-okc-charged-wire-fraud-and-money-laundering https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/executive-director-blac...)
- the_af 10mo agoSo BLM just sprouted out of thin air, without prior history of cop violence against black people?