I've heard several people say that cancel culture isn't censorship, because people who get cancelled aren't prevented from speaking. This is technically correct, but only technically.
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It's true that it's mostly the far left cancelling people now, as opposed to the far right in the 1950s. But the alarming thing about both those periods, compared to the period in between, is the amount of cancelling going on.
It's the degree of cancellation that bothers me, not who's doing it. I'd be just as alarmed if the people being cancelled were accused of being communists as the various ists they get accused of being today.
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Certainly there are shades of grey here where certain expressed thoughts aren't without consequence. Wouldn't it also be important to acknowledge this and try to find common ground in the grey than write off cancelation as a whole?
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But "Cancel Culture" now seems to include things like Slate Codex author Scott Alexander self-cancelling because he didn't want his name published. That's just fragility - or at least something completely different to the idea that it is an endemic problem.
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Who are examples of this? Who are the robust thinkers that are being cancelled unfairly? What are the far left political positions that moderates are being forced to adhere to at risk of censorship? I don’t see any analog to Mcarthyism at all, or much censorship either.
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I think there more cancellation because various communitities have a larger voice in the culture due to social media. The power of the puplit has been democratized and it makes everyone nervous because the ruleset is suddenly way more complicated. I'd argue that many of its . . .
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excesses are due to institutions responding clumsily because they're in uncharted territory.
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Do we understand the mechanics of cancel culture / the mechanism of cancellation? Can we hack it?
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