"Cancel culture" is something that does not exist but is a very popular concept among people who do terrible things and don't like being held accountable
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Replying to @eigenrobot @JuddLegum
The law of merited impossibility! cc
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This isn’t a contradiction. I’m explicitly arguing that, as a culture, we do not have a problem w/too many people being held accountable for their words & deeds. We have the opposite problem “Cancel culture” is used as a cudgel by people who don’t want to defend their actions
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Sometimes it *is* used in bad faith. But it is also used as shorthand for *many cancellations are unjust, and the culture it creates harms everyone via its arbitrariness and capriciousness and by disproportionately empowering sadistic bullies who thrive under such conditions*
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Replying to @conor64 @JuddLegum and
Can you give numbers? Like how many “unjust” cancellations have there actually been? Or are most of them like the CEO of Away, where when you scratch the surface it becomes clear there was bad behavior...
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Replying to @itinerantusa @conor64 and
So you're saying, provide a study or it didn't happen? Should videos of police shootings be held to that standard?
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Replying to @scareduck @iamcuriousblue and
Because some random anecdotes of people maybe getting fired are the same as extrajudicial murders by the police? And out of curiosity, what are your feeling on at will employment?
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