One would hope. My concern is the inbetween, like a potential employer combing your long-abandoned facebook profile, seeing you flashing OK on a bunch of pics on boats and going "nah, better not. Just in case."
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Replying to @Jimityjam @hikikomorphism and
This is what happens to symbols though which is maybe unfortunate for those who flashed roman salutes on 1920s twitter before their meaning became unambiguous but there's fuck all that can be done about that without sacrificing our discerning capacities altogether
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Replying to @adornofthagn @hikikomorphism and
So... Innocent people can get put out by this, yet it offers no percievable advantage in identifying whitesoups without other, more obvious signifiers. And this is just fine? Oh well? Seems like a ridiculous position to take, tbh.
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Replying to @Jimityjam @adornofthagn and
What do you mean by put out, exactly? I think there's this unfounded belief that people will get cancelled solely based on having flashed an ok sign once, but someone being asked what they meant by it doesn't really seem like an unreasonable burden.
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @adornofthagn and
But there'll certainly be plenty of situations where nobody will bother to ask what they meant by it. As in my "HR doing hiring" example. Lots of people are pretty intellectually lazy. You or I might ask, but will Pam in HR? Assuming the association becomes widespread enough.
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Replying to @Jimityjam @hikikomorphism and
here's a proposal, we can both cancel people and not be intellectually lazy -in fact, thinking that we can dispense with cancellation out of the dangers posed by laziness, is itself laziness
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Jimityjam and
I'd like cancellation to become broadly unsustainable practice because this type of practices pattern-match to societies I resent and consider only to a tiny degree more palatable than what the whitesoups want
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Replying to @0K_ultra @adornofthagn and
This. I prefer to assume individuals I wish to associate with all hold individual and complex beliefs, and that no belief makes them irredeemably evil and unable to be swayed to a more reasonable point of view. Cancellation as a concept needs to go.
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Replying to @Jimityjam @0K_ultra and
What does cancellation mean to you aside from not associating with a person?
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @Jimityjam and
Personally, punishment of non-punishers is where I draw the line. Not associating with the target is fine, as is telling people why so they can choose to do the same. What is not fine is punishing people who defend or refuse to stop associating with the target.
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yeah, trying to persuade others to drop you is fine as long as those others' choice to do so is uncoerced
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