imagine there is climate crisis about to devour the earth and what keeps you up at night is cancel culture
1Literal Extinction Threat Exists
Libs: “Cancel Culture must end!”
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Sorry for being so clueless, but what is "cancel culture"?
1It's a right wing talking point about how some people in the US are being held to account for their actions for more or less the first time, particularly in regard to racism and sexual violence. Cancel culture to the right is wanting to remove someone's status or influence based on past actions. To us, it's just doing the right thing and making people responsible for the distasteful things they've done.
2I'm not sure if it's strictly defined. the way I see it used is to describe an (online) trend of "cancelling" somebody for something bad that they have done. the idea is that when somebody is cancelled, they should no longer be treated positively, for example losing their celebrity status.
1was cancel culture a thing before social media (specifically twitter)? i imagine twitter provided a platform where conservative can publicly give a piece of their minds and also people can do the same to them which is a novelty because the public has traditionally been fenced away from celebrities.
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This is so misleading. Chomsky's take on cancel culture is actually pretty good. He points out that the most common type of "cancelling" is done by the right wing.
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