This is a good thread but what I'd like to underscore is that the problem of shaming/shunning is coterminous with social life itself, is likely to be more extreme in democracies (as explained by Tocqueville) & has no easy policy solutions.https://twitter.com/parabasis/status/1504827375913107465 …
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Are we willing to radically remake employment conditions so that free speech is easier? I'm game for it but I rarely if ever see the free speech brigade talk about such things.
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More broadly, the key point is the one made by
@jakebackpack which is that in terms of what people can express, there's never been more free speech now than anytime in history. (The one possible exception is Weimar Germany) https://www.gawker.com/media/speaking-freely-has-never-been-easier …pic.twitter.com/K9i28DUR6n
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In any case, it's hard to take the "social shunning" stuff as a serious problem when we're seeing actual anti-LGBT laws with real chilling effect and also a wave of Russophobia blacklisting, with little liberal pushback https://twitter.com/BlakeProf/status/1504854545800654848 …
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I think part of the issue is that shaming in its current form often substitutes for reason, and identity for argument. Reason has lost much of its cultural currency.
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Radical right wing reason: According to our Constitution, i@issue our national currency when I pay tax. Which is why I can’t afford to pay for human dignity for all
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Job Guarantee, as strong counter cyclical price stabilization tool. And one where the JG labor force can produce public goods/services. Vs subsidizing corporate profits. Which includes paying off bank loans for corps
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Is there actual evidence to suggest cancel culture is having a chilling effect? Or is this just people in positions of power who fear losing it because of cultural shifts and new norms?
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Interesting that all the conservatives who claim to be anti-cancel culture are also anti-union, which would be the best mechanism to preserve freedom of speech
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