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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Replying to @itinerantusa @scareduck and
Right. Because being against cancel culture means I must be against criminal justice reform, right? Where in the hell did I even remotely imply that? I'm a civil libertarian and was fundamental police reform and an end to cancel culture. >
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Replying to @iamcuriousblue @itinerantusa and
I also think at-will employment is a problem, actully. Compounded by the fact that employers seem to think they're beholden to Twitter and fire people based on a phone call from an angry troll.
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Replying to @iamcuriousblue @scareduck and
I think that where I disagree is that you have this idea that there is some epidemic of people being fired for Twitter trolls, while I think they are much more likely to be fired for wage theft or racism or sexism or taking some time off to take care of a sick relative.
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Replying to @itinerantusa @iamcuriousblue and
It’s not even that I’m arguing that “cancel culture” doesn’t exist, it’s that I’ve seen no real evidence that it’s this epidemic that should be at the forefront of the national consciousness. Most of it seems like the sort of stupidity you could find at any point in our history.
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