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In practice, the real alternative to cancel culture is usually know-your-place culture for the masses. Civil-debate-culture is not an actual option. It’s what elites get to enjoy when the masses know their place and stay there quietly without getting uppity.
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What underlies cancel culture is the advent of tools that can upend the power of establishment elites in business, media, politics, etc. Cancel culture is the organism releasing (active & unwitting) antibodies to snuff out foreign invaders, who clearly don't know their place.
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I see the converse. All the privileged suburban kids w/pricey degrees go into media & politics, earn a pittance, paying dues. Then watch outsiders on YouTube/podcasts/startups make a killing. They lead cancel brigades as unwitting tools of the establishment, enforcing status quo.
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This is how those shouting cancelled see it, and that's why they call it a cancel, not a challenge. 1. I should be able to be vile to those I perceive as lesser status, it solidifies my status 2. That those of lesser status are talking back is a threat to my status but more /
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