Rowling .... replied to a comment asking if the [death] threat related to her previous comments about single-sex bathrooms, saying: "Yes, but now hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me I’ve realised that this movement poses no risk to women whatsoever." — yahoo news
We need to assess independently whether what the mob wants is something agree with and if so join them. — Benkei
Political correctness could, but then this isn't about that, is it? — Benkei
Let me rephrase, cancelling as political correctness gone rogue, doesn't exist. — Benkei
Yeah, I'm not playing this game where you allude to that letter (again) without actually forming an argument. You tried that skit with Baden before. Make an argument, you know premisses and conclusions and all that. — Benkei
Let me rephrase, cancelling as political correctness gone rogue, doesn't exist. I prefer public accountability instead. — Benkei
I do think the right has marketed their position well with the "cancel culture" designation, and I do understand why you'd like to erase that from the vocabulary by declaring it non-existent. The problem is that it works, and it works because trying to stomp someone's views out, regardless of how morally repugnant you find them, doesn't work that well against 10s of millions of people. — Hanover
Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study
reddit.com/antiwork — Benkei
Make an argument, you know premisses and conclusions and all that. — Benkei
The OP states:
Cancel culture is a right wing lie ... — Benkei — Fooloso4
Although the terminology is new, it has always existed in one form or another. — Fooloso4
the question was whether it was a dangerous tool to encourage the use of. — Isaac
That is too vague and general to be of much use. — Fooloso4
I'm pretty confident that by-and-large what is happening is for the good. — Benkei
I'll just quote some of the stuff that has already been said before on this site as well: — Benkei
We need to assess independently whether what the mob wants is something agree with and if so join them. — Benkei
While examples of political correctness goen rogue do exist, the "culture" or "phenomenon" isn't about that, that's in fact about public accountability of companies, celebrities and politicians. — Benkei
Except nobody is stomping anyone's views out, they are brought out in the light in all their stupidity and found lacking. — Benkei
Editors are fired for running controversial pieces
books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity
professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class
researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study
I was thinking: how does `Tom Cotton-NYT` not pop in your mind when someone mentions an editor being squashed for publishing a controversial opinion? — frank
Yes, these are hardly examples which are buried out of the public eye, but I suspect the overwhelming temptation to dismiss the concerns creates something of cognitive block — Isaac
Except nobody is stomping anyone's views out, they are brought out in the light in all their stupidity and found lacking. — Benkei
Editors are fired for running controversial pieces
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/06/07/new-york-times-opinion-editor-out-after-publishing-controversial-tom-cotton-piece/ — Isaac
books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/07/dr-seuss-books-product-recall-cancel-culture — Isaac
professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/15/white-professor-investigated-quoting-james-baldwin-use-of-n-word-laurie-sheck — Isaac
researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/29/21340308/david-shor-omar-wasow-speech — Isaac
less than five minutes on Google. — Isaac
think people are more and more actually organising. Unions, activism etc. And we can look at separate cases and find fault with some of them but I'm pretty confident that by-and-large what is happening is for the good. — Benkei
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