Cancel culture is not new. Scholars who study sensitive issues in repressive countries feel it in their bones daily. Annoy the regime, and you’re cancelled: doors close on you. What’s new is this culture’s emergence in a society that once considered unfettered inquiry a virtue.
It has happened in the US before, for example during the McCarthy era. But I did hope we were past this sort of thing now.
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Perhaps it’s something to be relearned when it falls out of the working memory of the population..
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It's fine to disregard those lessons of history if my tribe tells me there's some other group I'm supposed to really really dislike.
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To be fair, they're also the source of all evil! (Thanks to the butterfly effect, this might even be true, from a certain very specific and not unmotivated point-of-view.)
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Is that not the ultimate hubris though? We are the same species that committed all the atrocities that came before us. We said we’d never forget and then we promptly forgot within a generation or two.
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Every time I log in to social media I’m reminded of highschool, reading ‘The Crucible’.
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McCarthy was using the power of the US government to 'cancel' people. The current issue seems more complex to me, and it's hard to discuss as just a handwavy 'cancel culture'. In some cases, it's simply the consequences of nasty speech catching up with people...
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and that doesn't seem unreasonable in some cases. Someone also mentioned that it's power that otherwise underrepresented/powerless people have. R's have won the presidency 1 time in the past 20 years with a popular majority - yet also have the Senate and 5 SC justices
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