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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Yes, pay no attention to the house fire -- a meteorite could land on anyone's house, at any time.
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Why not pay attention to both?
You accuse me of flagging the left wing cancel people and ignoring the right. It appears you're doing exactly the same thing in reverse. You assert despite Graham's essay (and he's a fuckload smarter and levelheaded than you or I will ever be) and numerous similar ones that cancel culture doesn't exist.
It's flagrant bullshit. It exists on the left and right. I agree with you that Rowling is engaged in it. I agree with RT that Depp is engaged in it. Fuck them both for engaging in it.
I also noted that the right wing historically engaged in it thru Focus on the Family, Brent Bozell, and all the evangelical-led boycotts of media outlets and personalities. And Trump is the very worst of cancelers - the perpetual victim on one hand, with an army of low rent Roy Cohns ready to sue anyone who exposes him.
Do you think that all of the people who have written all of the essays on cancel culture are simply making it up? From Haidt to Graham to Sullivan to Taibbi? Qulliette has practically created an entire platform devoted to it. It's all just made up of whole cloth? When even MSNBC describes it as a thing, acknowledging widespread recognition of its existence, its pervasiveness, it's still somehow just a myth?
I offer you a list of professors who've been threatened with firing or fired as a result of cancel culture lunacy and you ignore it and hang your entire argument on Rappoport, the exception to the rule. Then when cornered you pull out this argument:
You can't tell me who the cancel advocates are, so there is no cancel culture.
That's pathetic. They're legion. They're all over social media, and within regular media. They're all over academia. Almost any time anyone says anything that can be perceived to offend some progressive-approved gender or race study theory, the cancelers come out in droves, like someone has poked a hive.
Your final argument is,
Well, we have to take each case individually, and in some of them, the offense (or other job performance issues, as in Rappoport's case) may merit cancellation. Nonsense. You don't need to assess moral panics, or movements - and cancel culture is both - by needling through each of thousands of cases of something. The polka-dotted elephant is right in front of you, everybody sees it, and you sound foolish to deny it.
