"Cancel Culture" is actually a very American thing to do. (regime, racist)

[Phil75230]

It's just the new term for the old fashioned boycott. If you - a private citizen or business - object to a way a private individual does things, then you have every right to encourage people to not buy from the person or business. To use very familiar rhetoric, why should any good decent hard-working American pay money to a person or group he or she doesn't have to support? The same thing goes for Big Tech. If your channel gets deplatformed, there's plenty of other groups out there that'll accept your speech. This is especially true given that startup costs for a new platform are typically much less than for a trad-media radio or tv station. Servers are a steal compared to the cost of a transmitter and especially television control room.

So the screeching about "cancel culture" is basically just a bunch of people complaining that their views aren't acceptable to mainstream society.

[Joe90]

Cancel culture to me is the local authority deciding that Group A can't have a meeting at the local hall, because it might offend group B - that isn't a boycott.

[green_mariner]

I watch alot of David Hoffman's Youtube videos. One of the videos was actually recorded in the 1980s. Journalist Hendrik Hertzberg gave an account of when he was in high school. 1950s suburbs of NYC (Suffern specifically). When Hertzberg was in high school, the Principal came in and told the students to hand over their copies of Catcher In The Rye.

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by Phil75230

It's just the new term for the old fashioned boycott. If you - a private citizen or business - object to a way a private individual does things, then you have every right to encourage people to not buy from the person or business. To use very familiar rhetoric, why should any good decent hard-working American pay money to a person or group he or she doesn't have to support? The same thing goes for Big Tech. If your channel gets deplatformed, there's plenty of other groups out there that'll accept your speech. This is especially true given that startup costs for a new platform are typically much less than for a trad-media radio or tv station. Servers are a steal compared to the cost of a transmitter and especially television control room.

So the screeching about "cancel culture" is basically just a bunch of people complaining that their views aren't acceptable to mainstream society.

Except they’ve deemed the “others” as implicitly racist and so silence, micro aggressions, words, slight movements and hand gestures, all cancellable offenses.

To anyone who might be confused this is a naked power grab by mentally deranged individuals who can’t function in any society.

You’ve tried to conflate a boycott with someone entering your mind and trying to change you at the psychological level. No doubt you’re cool with that. The High Priests of Justice have spoketh.

[agnostic soldier]

Cancel culture is censorship of anyone that disagrees with whatever the current liberal agenda says is correct. If this was reversed and it was leftists getting silenced due to them not having an acceptable opinion then the left would be screeching at the top of their lungs about how wrong and unfair it is. They don't seek to boycott things they disagree with; they try destroy the livelihoods and reputation of those that disagree with them. Cancel culture is the hallmark of a despotic authoritarian regime. It's not an American thing.

[elyn02]

It's a very human thing to do. When you don't fit in, you're out until you can organize enough people who have been sidelined.

[DorianRo]

All Dictatorships begin with Cancel Culture. Thats one of the thing wrong with the left. They have alot of good qualities but cancel culture isn't one of them.

[AADAD]

Originally Posted by DorianRo

All Dictatorships begin with Cancel Culture. Thats one of the thing wrong with the left. They have alot of good qualities but cancel culture isn't one of them.

Bravo. The first thing a dictator demands is your silence.

[Retroit]

I thought free speech was American?

[LivingLikeAGradStudent]

A backlash is not canceling someone. It may be criticism, unwarranted even, but very few livelihoods are terminated. Individually saying "we'll pay less attention to you/think less of you because ..." is a way to address powerlessness. And it's not political.