I think that voicing disapproval and not associating with people we disapprove of is healthy and often necessary. "Canceling" goes beyond that: it amounts to enforcing a general ban on approval of and association with a person, and is not sustainable in a pluralist society.
Canceling does not offer presumption of innocence, appeals process, commensurability, restitution, ex post facto, habeas corpus, accountability of the court, correction etc. The US legal system may be bad but not that bad.
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Most of these don’t apply in practice; people are routinely jailed for over a year without trial. The court system doesn’t have the staff to give most people a trial at all. The real penalty isn’t the sentence, but the bail, jail time, and plea deal.
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Yes, it seems to be totally broken and is terrifying to me on all levels.
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