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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Back in the olden days, when the means of publication were expensive (papyrus, parchment, printing press, radio tower, broadcast studio), published takes were edited and curated. Now technology makes it possible for everyone who has an opinion to share it on Twitter or Facebook or some other social media. Complaining about this makes you sound like an old man yelling at kids not to play on the park grass. Good luck with that.
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I don’t wish to complain. My only desire would be to see the voices who engage in cancel behavior ignored.
To get everyone who ought to ignore them to do so, you have to start by explaining to voices who seem sympathetic to them why they should not be. When smart people defend the morons on some basis like “oh, they’ve suffered under power dynamics, so we must excuse their behavior and accept their nonsense,” this gives them cover.
