Yup, because B is very unpopular because he's a huge piece of shit
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A ton of "cancel culture" critique boils down to "It's WRONG for people to be unpopular" Geek Social Fallacy shit "Unless you can successfully bring charges against me in a court of law, you are REQUIRED to shake my hand and be nice to me That's my right as a citizen"
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Social ostracization is a powerful thing, and it has been used against all sorts of completely normal behaviour (Mormons shunning their kids for dating outside the religion, queer kids being themselves, etc). I think these folks knowingly weaponize a conflation of this with that.
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Replying to @ReneeStephen @arthur_affect and
Yeah, speaking with my anthropologist hat on: people who want to disallow social ostracism as a tactic are deeply confused and wrong. Historically, the alternative to social ostracism isn't "everyone gets along", it's "violence".
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Replying to @iridienne @ReneeStephen and
It can be used for good and bad purposes, LIKE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ABOUT HUMAN SOCIETIES. But it's not really … optional, either? You can't just say "nobody's allowed to shun anyone anymore". It doesn't work that way.
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Replying to @iridienne @ReneeStephen and
It really feels like there's this giant meta-project of white guys trying to eliminate consequences as a concept, with them latching onto any movement or ideology that suggests how society metes out consequences currently is screwed up as a way to legitimize their undertaking.
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Replying to @ComradeGorbash @iridienne and
Yeah it's off the chain isn't it If I took their arguments completely seriously I'd be like "Wait, so no one can be fired from a job EVER? How would that even work?" Or worse, shit like "You CANNOT use someone's racism to decide whether they deserve a prestigious award"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComradeGorbash and
"And since you can't prove that an awards committee didn't take that into consideration, we demand a quota of awards for racists to prove you're unbiased" People literally demanding "diversity of opinion" quotas guaranteeing jobs to conservatives
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComradeGorbash and
There's no coherent moral standard here, any more than there is when Georgia Republicans think it's good for democracy to shorten open hours at the polls so fewer people vote It's all self serving bullshit
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If there is an moral basis to it it's this incoherent, unspoken feeling that if society is getting less conservative too quickly something's gone terribly wrong and the brakes need to be applied That gut-level fear of change lurking inside every privileged person
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComradeGorbash and
I mean, after all, what is the Gender Critical movement at all other than a mass collective stamping of feet in protest at the idea that treating trans people as nothing more than mentally ill should have consequences.
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