Is "Cancel Culture" Real?

@vivify said
Is "cancel culture" a legitimate phenomena or is just a complaint from people whining about losing positions from irresponsible comments?

It’s both really.

Yes. There is cancel culture. There are right-wing extremists who try to ban evolution being taught in schools. And there are left-wing extremists who take politically correct (being polite) to sickening levels.

And there are folk who think that they can say anything they want and that people have to listen to them. And there are people who think people who say things they don’t like should have their opinions removed.

And both sides wallow in their own versions of victimhood.

And more importantly, they all irritate the hell out of me.

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I never claimed you did.

@shavixmir said
It’s both really.

Yes. There is cancel culture. There are right-wing extremists who try to ban evolution being taught in schools. And there are left-wing extremists who take politically correct (being polite) to sickening levels.

And there are folk who think that they can say anything they want and that people have to listen to them. And there are people who think peo ...[text shortened]... in their own versions of victimhood.

And more importantly, they all irritate the hell out of me.

"And there are people who think people who say things they don’t like should have their opinions removed."

That would be you.

You irritate the hell out of yourself?

@metal-brain said
"And there are people who think people who say things they don’t like should have their opinions removed."

That would be you.

You irritate the hell out of yourself?

No it’s just boring farts like yourself who repeat the same nonsensical disinformation time and time again. Your trolling the whole forum with your BS
Change the record from time to time, there must other nonsensical theories out there.

@vivify said
Is "cancel culture" a legitimate phenomena or is just a complaint from people whining about losing positions from irresponsible comments?

Since people are actually being fired or not hired due to their controversial positions, and this is happening consistently, it is real.

It is also not unique to the current time.

@philokalia said
Since people are actually being fired or not hired due to their controversial positions

See Fox News, who hired Tucker Carlson, a man David Duke called "an excellent choice" to replace Bill O'Reilly; or hired Mark Fuhrman, infamous for being revealed as a staunch racist during the OJ trial, as a contributor; or who supported Trump during his entire political career, who called Mexicans immigrants drug-using rapists, advocated killing the families of suspected terrorists, and on and on.

People are most certainly hired for "controversial positions", especially by the right.