For Ty:
Here's a glimpse into the sort of dimly lit skull that thinks cancel culture/call out culture is positive:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/o...l-culture.html This person is taking issue with Obama dismissing cancel culture as unproductive. Highlights:
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What people of Obama’s generation don’t understand — or don’t want to understand — about the ways in which younger people use the internet to make our values known, is that we’re not bullies going after people with “different opinions” for sport. Rather, we’re trying to push back against the bullies — influential people who have real potential to cause harm, or have already caused it.
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Right. Like the local baker whose idiot daughter wrote something terrible over half a decade ago. Rage against that machine!
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At the very least, we can speak up to send a message to vulnerable people that the bullies’ bigoted or backward views aren’t the only ones out there.
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May he never bake another pita!
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Mr. Obama is right that “the world is messy.” But the messiness we see looks like people who are suffering because others stubbornly reject progress and refuse to show compassion.
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Translation: If you don't agree with us, if you don't want our progress, you are enemy we have the right to ruin.
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Millennials and Gen-Zers are doing what we can to take down the Goliath many of our parents have been rightfully casting stones at for decades. We have a tool that has helped democratize public debates about these issues, and we hope it will move us to a more just world.
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No. We'll all keep behaving exactly as we feel like behaving, just exclusively in private. You'll simply ruin the internet. Which mostly hurts people without real friends, like you.
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