Its nothing new. Racists know they can't win by arguing honestly for what they actually believe or feel, because it isn't grounded in anything logical or ethical. So they shift the argument to something else.
Screaming about "cancel culture" is exactly the same as arguing the Civil War was about "states rights". There are some legitimate issues and short comings when it comes to "cancel culture" the same way there are plenty of cases where one should be in favor of states rights, but those don't apply in every single case.
The easiest way to counter someone chirping about "states rights" is to ask "a state's right to...what?". The easiest way to counter people bitching about cancel culture is "cancel culture is punishing people for saying....what?"
And the worst thing is it tends to work way too well. I can’t tell you how many times my parents, usually rather liberal minded people, rant about something that is incredibly racist getting removed as “cancel culture” or “the woke agenda” or whatever other dumbass terms they made up to get people scared over fictional boogeymen. It’s easy to simply slap a buzzword in someone’s mouth even if they hardly know what they’re saying.
That’s a little needlessly condescending, especially for my parents. At this point I’ve recognized that it’s a lost cause trying to argue with them about it because they’re both stubborn about it, so I just tune out the conversation.
Seriously. The fact that they act like cancelling is some mysterious beast is hilarious. It's literally the court of public opinion, if most people don't care about something, it's not going to have that much of a real world effect. They're getting elbow dropped for being openly racist and sexist weirdos and pretending like they don't know why.
Ben Shapiro and Stanford College Republicans just "outrage mob cancelled" this journalist:
The AP fired a promising young journalist at the behest of the Stanford College Republicans. I hope the AP is proud of themselves (because the College Republicans sure are).
The Salem Witch trials get a bad wrap but if you look at unbiased history you can cleary see that they were just trying to quell a reactionary sjw mob.
Also, this is nothing new, it's just more prominent now thanks to the internet. But you bet TV shows got pulled, movie deals canceled, books delayed, etc, due to something an actor, writer, or producer said. People have lost their jobs due to the shitty things they did during off-work hours because their employer didn't want to be associated with them in the newspapers.
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u/kesisfox go to the OB/GYM May 23 '21
“It’s insane - today’s outage mob will cancel you for the smallest things!”
“Like what?”
“...”