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Is Cancel Culture real?
- Thread starter Kenya Jones
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Just call it a witch hunt. Being specific to just the present cultural moment can keep you from seeing broader patterns of human behavior.
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Getting cancelled literally means nothing, its just people saying bad things about you on the internet. Just dox them in retaliation.
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What I wonder about the cancel culture term, is why they haven't used it when it comes to regimes that had/will literally remove(d) people from existence, and any trace of them. And I mean the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party, and North Korea. Not a damn Twitter mob.
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The people who become 'richer, more powerful' were either already rich or in a safe enough spot to fall upwards. Look at this shit happening to anyone who already has a career and you have your answer for why the term exists. It really seems like you're on a roll of asking obvious questions that people have already covered many times.
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Oh, it's real enough, but the purpose of it isn't what you think it is. Let me give you an analogy:
Back in medieval times, one of the ways the church had of establishing guilt was trial by ordeal, overseen by monks and abbots. Now, because the peasants truly believed that God would protect His own and the innocent, an innocent man would accept the trial without fear, while a guilty man would be afraid to. The priests would watch the accused's response and, since they were the ones who controlled the ordeal itself, they'd adjust it. Is your ordeal to hold heated iron without damage? It's the priests that heated and gave you the iron and if they'd already judged you innocent, they'd make sure it wasn't too hot to hold.
The key point in that rambling mess is the peasants truly believed. It's the same with cancel culture. It exists, it's real, but it only harms those that believe it can do so, and it's used to keep the woke in line. Wokism is a religion, like any other.
Back in medieval times, one of the ways the church had of establishing guilt was trial by ordeal, overseen by monks and abbots. Now, because the peasants truly believed that God would protect His own and the innocent, an innocent man would accept the trial without fear, while a guilty man would be afraid to. The priests would watch the accused's response and, since they were the ones who controlled the ordeal itself, they'd adjust it. Is your ordeal to hold heated iron without damage? It's the priests that heated and gave you the iron and if they'd already judged you innocent, they'd make sure it wasn't too hot to hold.
The key point in that rambling mess is the peasants truly believed. It's the same with cancel culture. It exists, it's real, but it only harms those that believe it can do so, and it's used to keep the woke in line. Wokism is a religion, like any other.
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I think it both is and isn't. The meaning is so all encompassing at this point, there's no way it can't be 'real'. For me, I consider Cancel Culture to be the idea or fear that the average person will have their actions and words held to the same standard a public figure would. The difference would be that an average person would actually face consequences for that scrutiny.
For public figures, 'canceling' is usually, literally just tweets and it means nothing. When Joe Rogan gets 'canceled,' the unsaid part of the widespread criticism is the 100 million dollars Spotify paid him for his show. People whining about you is just the bargain you make for your platform.
The legitimate part for me is when random Twitter 'main characters' get swept up into this. They do feel the consequences because social media has made everyone a minor public figure that people feel free to yell at but without the resources to deal with it.
For public figures, 'canceling' is usually, literally just tweets and it means nothing. When Joe Rogan gets 'canceled,' the unsaid part of the widespread criticism is the 100 million dollars Spotify paid him for his show. People whining about you is just the bargain you make for your platform.
The legitimate part for me is when random Twitter 'main characters' get swept up into this. They do feel the consequences because social media has made everyone a minor public figure that people feel free to yell at but without the resources to deal with it.
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This. And I have a pretty fitting example off the top of my head: YouTuber Cosmodore got outted for dating a 16 year old while he himself was 20. On all fronts, he was guilty and should have whatever's coming for him. But during that time, he would constantly remove, re-add videos, and take down his channel only for him to add it back up later (right now, his channel is completely nuked). And through all of it, that was on his accord. I don't think a single person managed to cause active harm in his way, through channel/video takedowns, police reports, nothing. This dude could've pulled a Mini Ladd and just keep going with his career on YouTube (albeit maybe with less views and mostly dislikes and hate comments) but ultimately he fucked himself over. And I think this goes to show that unless you've got the feds involved, your online career will probably still be intact despite your public image being tainted.