Trial by community and anarchy, and lynching, not just a bunch of A-list old-fart Hollywood people have gotten cancelled, but increasingly it's the small fries in any industry that are called out over increasingly trivial things, but the threshold for "okayness" has shrunk so much that even somewhat innocuous or clumsy acts are being seen as monstrous. People get cancelled left and right now by morons, but the morons are many, and the many decide the outcome for everyone else, including the silent majority or the most oppressed guys.
Note, I'm not saying every cancel was unjustified. If Michael Jackson hadn't died, I think by now his rumored pedophilia would have been re-examined by court, and obviously Kevin Spacey, Jefferey Epstein and others got rightfully persecuted in my opinion... however, things such as the recent Angry Joe claim, the NeoGAF original schism and more, it's events where some guy made a move, but it was the worst timing or it wasn't pre-emptively known that this would go poorly... but somehow the idea that you're being a predator is so determined by the wokies that it's a definitive "crime".
With that threshold decreasing and more and more losing their careers or their way of life, where do they go? I think this is something leftist purists have never considered at all. They just want you gone, so they can have their pure ideology undistorted, In the end I think by now there must be hundreds if not thousands of big-name cancelled people who are actually talented, and I doubt they'll just sit twiddling their thumbs forever. Years from now that could rise to hundreds of thousands, and at some point I believe cancel culture will bit itself in the ass. I'm just looking forward to that, but I wanted to ask you guys how you see the long-term of this popularized form of hate-mobbing turning out over the years?
PS. I know this involves politics but I actually consider this and general "wokeness" to have gone beyond politics. It's people and it's behavior, not everything we see right now is some concentrated effort for political emancipation, even if that is a part of it.
Note, I'm not saying every cancel was unjustified. If Michael Jackson hadn't died, I think by now his rumored pedophilia would have been re-examined by court, and obviously Kevin Spacey, Jefferey Epstein and others got rightfully persecuted in my opinion... however, things such as the recent Angry Joe claim, the NeoGAF original schism and more, it's events where some guy made a move, but it was the worst timing or it wasn't pre-emptively known that this would go poorly... but somehow the idea that you're being a predator is so determined by the wokies that it's a definitive "crime".
With that threshold decreasing and more and more losing their careers or their way of life, where do they go? I think this is something leftist purists have never considered at all. They just want you gone, so they can have their pure ideology undistorted, In the end I think by now there must be hundreds if not thousands of big-name cancelled people who are actually talented, and I doubt they'll just sit twiddling their thumbs forever. Years from now that could rise to hundreds of thousands, and at some point I believe cancel culture will bit itself in the ass. I'm just looking forward to that, but I wanted to ask you guys how you see the long-term of this popularized form of hate-mobbing turning out over the years?
PS. I know this involves politics but I actually consider this and general "wokeness" to have gone beyond politics. It's people and it's behavior, not everything we see right now is some concentrated effort for political emancipation, even if that is a part of it.
