i'm a changed man
A 50-second one-man skit is all it takes to point out the flawed logic in public figures who cry "cancel culture."
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— mcdonalds (@PhilJamesson) July 9, 2020
Cancel culture is when a person accustomed to speaking over others gets talked back to.
That's it. That's the whole phenomenon. - Simon Whitten
casey versteeg
2 years ago
i think this video is demonstrating boycotting someone which is too often incorrectly referred to as cancel culture. Canceling someone is when you not only dont want to hear/see/support someone or something, but you also want them deplatformed and silenced so that nobody else has access to hear/see/support them. It would be like if you didnt like a certain comedian so you want their specials removed from netflix, studios to stop putting them in movies and venues to stop booking them entirely. Thats cancel culture
Matt
2 years ago
Cancel culture is actually a thing. It’s just a more coordinated form of mob mentality. It’s also a way of virtue signaling that you are morally correct and the other person is morally inferior. This is one of many reasons I don’t have a Twitter account.
eternal soul
2 years ago
In general, I find people scream "cancel culture" when they don't want to be held accountable for their actions. There are times when it's unfair. More often, in my observation, it's a charge levied by whiners who don't like being called out for their sh*t.
Matt
2 years ago
I definitely think some people need to be held accountable for having problematic views, but my concern is that it seems like we are always searching for someone to cancel for the sheer schadenfreude of watching someone fall. I agree with a fair amount of cancellations, but trying to cancel the New York Times for instance is pure silliness. The opinion column is literally supposed to expose you to diversity of thought, but many see this as a challenge to their own thinking. I’m from a fairly weird background, so I kind of come from a place that would be perceived as “backward” by most liberal progressives. I don’t agree with their perceptions of the world, but it’s not okay to declare your way of thinking as superior to that of people from a completely different world. Cities are becoming more and more insular in the sense that they are having trouble relating to rural areas. The only way to fix this country is to get conversations going again, and I feel like the internet has more of a tendency to trap us in echo chambers where we only see our own thoughts reflected at us. Sometimes it’s helpful to consider thoughts from a different group of people. That’s what has made us great, and I’m afraid we are moving into a world where it’s not possible.
Matt
2 years ago
and by “them” I mean my relative who are very conservative and emblematic of the type of personality that gets attacked for sharing their thoughts. I’d rather have a conversation with them than alienate them.
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