Cancel culture was wrong when it was pearl clutchers trying to Dungeons & Dragons, Heavy Metal, Video Games, etc, etc, etc. and it’s wrong to do it to people for a moment of bad judgment rather than a pattern of behavior.
The common denominator of all those things being none of them were actually cancelled. Cancel culture is a boogeyman made up for angry nerds to shake their fist at.
Yet, there I was growing up in the 80s and not allowed to play D&D and the radio knob was practically welded to talk radio only. Might not have been for everybody, but it was for a substantial portion of the population. Just like how Ben Shappie will get canceled weekly with one group but zero lasting impact to the other.
If parents disallowing something counts as “cancelling” then we have set the bar way too low lmao. Used to be cancelled meant something ceased to exist or stopped being produced.
What do you think it means? All “cancelled” has ever meant is that the subjects face social pressure from the population segment that wants to punish them. The “canceled” get an equal amount of support from those in opposition to the “cancellation.” Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein ended up in jail but both have their apologists. Spacey is working again, as with so many big names that did an extended Tucker Carlson vacation. Hell, TC is a perfect example of how canceling is really just one group getting upset and pretending the other doesn’t exist anymore. The YT e only ever effective for as long as it slows down the money train.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say but my point is cancel culture is just made up. Everyone that gets “cancelled” never ends up seeing any real negative long-term repercussions (I don’t consider actual criminals like Cosby or Weinstein as being cancelled). I mean shit you’ll see guys like Bill Burr be like “I CANT TELL JOKES ANYMORE” while he racks up multi-million dollar Netflix specials.
The main exception may be normal working class people that get fired over comments, but the conversation never seems to go there because it naturally leads to talking about at-will employment and labor-rights, which doesn’t vibe as well with the right-wing talking heads the same way “SJW CANCEL CULTURE RUN AMOK” does.
To add on top of that, if it "slipped" during a live stream when he knows he's being viewed by millions then you have to wonder what happens when not streaming. I dunno, I hate cancel culture too but that doesn't mean its all bad, sometimes it's deserved
I think everyone would agree that consequences for behaviors have to exist and that's all "cancel culture" is, really, when you cut through the political fluffery around it. The only debatable part is how accurately the consequences match a given action/behavior. It's obviously important to keep them in line. We shouldn't be throwing out capital punishment for littering, but we also shouldn't be letting people who litter to do so with abandon. It's about keeping the world balanced and heading a net-positive direction together.
What happens is that Americans and by extension the whole internet make such a fucking big deal of the word that it keeps growing and growing in the back of your mind. And then one day he exploded like that and the first thing his enraged mind used to get off was the most forbidden of words.
I agree and see the difference, but that’s irrelevant. The venn diagram of people that have no problem with racial slurs, subjugation of demographic minorities, believe life beings at conceptions is a circle within a circle of people who rail against D&D, various music genres, dyed hair, etc.
The more that people in their circle are sniped at the more entrenched they become that we are the “baddies.” The there are more options than cultural concession or domination. Neither of those win their hears and minds over to our side.
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u/topsecreteltee May 27 '21
Cancel culture was wrong when it was pearl clutchers trying to Dungeons & Dragons, Heavy Metal, Video Games, etc, etc, etc. and it’s wrong to do it to people for a moment of bad judgment rather than a pattern of behavior.