kanethenotorious
Phoron
Feel free to use this thread to discuss people who are getting cancelled or to discuss the process of cancel culture.
Many (but not all) "extremists" know they are triggering people. If triggering people shows a giant network of resources and middlemen designed to shut down speech, then the triggering was successful. Such networks could then be turned and used against people simply for expressing classic left or right wing views. It may start out over topics that polite society has consensus on such as holocaust revisionism, but the resources are then available to shut down Alex Jones next, then Donald Trump ... the line can keep moving until the point where the line is simply hurting another person's feelings. As soon as the tools and mechanisms are available in the private sector to shut speech down, those tools can be used on people who comform to the rules but carefully conform with insufficient enthusiasm. I think the greatest thing political dissidents do is get the centralized private sector bureaucracy to expose its own existence. It's not about who is being shut down, it's about the fact that they have the ability and coordination to shut people down.
edit: At one point the movement against the Iraq war was subject to cancel culture.
Many (but not all) "extremists" know they are triggering people. If triggering people shows a giant network of resources and middlemen designed to shut down speech, then the triggering was successful. Such networks could then be turned and used against people simply for expressing classic left or right wing views. It may start out over topics that polite society has consensus on such as holocaust revisionism, but the resources are then available to shut down Alex Jones next, then Donald Trump ... the line can keep moving until the point where the line is simply hurting another person's feelings. As soon as the tools and mechanisms are available in the private sector to shut speech down, those tools can be used on people who comform to the rules but carefully conform with insufficient enthusiasm. I think the greatest thing political dissidents do is get the centralized private sector bureaucracy to expose its own existence. It's not about who is being shut down, it's about the fact that they have the ability and coordination to shut people down.
edit: At one point the movement against the Iraq war was subject to cancel culture.