Many fans of cancel culture have mentioned that it's mostly powerful people publishing opinions about it, as if that were some kind of contradiction. Of course it's mostly powerful people who are speaking openly about a phenomenon that gets less powerful people fired.
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They're not standing up for the little people; they're pissed the little people are standing up to them
Do you really think that not one of the people speaking out against cancel culture is motivated by principles, rather than simply self-interest? Or to put it another way, do you think the resemblance between your position and fundamental attribution error is a coincidence?
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#TheLetter was a textbook (as in, I will teach with it) example of fundamental attribution error on a few levels -- including not attributing any of their fears to specific cases (something the counter-letter cured). That then also makes it textbook moral panic. 1/ -
To accept at face value that there is something called Cancel Culture is itself an example of fundamental attribution error, attributing motives to those who argue on their own principles about appropriate behavior. 2/
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Children are canceling other children in high school and middle school because they are being told my adults to do it. Those children comb through social media or private texts etc looking for anything that can be “perceived” as racist etc. then get them doxed. That’s horrible
End of conversation
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