Believing that you (or someone else) should be the gatekeeper to information for other people makes you their priestly overlord, reserving the power of knowledge for yourself.
it’s just another brand of justice, kind of like “street justice”, and like all kinds of justice, it’s messy and complicated and totally different case-by-case
Haha this is exactly the split I expected. I put myself squarely in the 'meh' camp, but knew the majority would line up behind 'cancerous'. I do wonder whether the ammunition to cancel might not be reduced if a couple of the 'it's the devil's would come around to my camp
There is a skillfully designed motte-and-bailey preventing anyone from actually talking apples to apples.
The motte is fine, the bailey nasty, and ultimately backed by corporations who are negotiating with e-mobs for a minor PR fix-up.
cancel *culture* is a cancer
there's sometimes a need to remove particularly odious individuals, but once cancelling is happening enough to be a recognisable common thing, its being used way too much