Cancel culture is communism. I don't care how ridiculous anyone's stance is. I support anyone's ability to say whatever they wish.
To say whatever they wish without consequence?
That's what they call a democracy. Freedom of speech as a foundation.
Without absolute freedom of speech a democracy will fail.
Like it's falling everywhere in North-America and Europe.
Cancel culture is communism (excellent remark bij KG LL).
It's in fact cultural marxism.
TP Rody for seeing the big picture.
The entire argument is nonsensical.
Free speech means that you can say what you want without the government punishing you. It doesn’t mean that private citizens will give bigots a free pass.
If we’re making economic analogies, let the free market decide. Here, the market has determined that antisemitism isn’t desirable.
I hate talking politics on a sports forum, but the notion that ’cancel culture’ has killed free speech…is rubbish.
From a historical perspective, American’s have never had it so good in regards to freedom of speech.
During WWII, American citizens were locked up in interment camps simply for having Japanese heritage. During the Cold War, just being suspected of having socialist ideologies, would have you blacklisted for life.
Narcissists, Machvelions, and psychopaths want cancel culture. They call it the dark triad.
Nothing is more important than your reputation. People try to game the reputation system.
While many agree that cancel culture is very dangerous and must stop, the same is true of antisemitism. Frankly, cancel culture has been so out of control, people jumping on people for RELATIVELY minor transgressions (like telling a joke about females), that we now see literally one of the biggest musicians on the planet espousing antisemitism…Definitely not what was intended by this cancel culture environment, or presumably that is the case, but here we stand, with truly disgusting behavior/comments from Kanye and people defending him. Cancel culture has been so out of control that it is creating an environment of increasingly disturbing behavior/theories becoming more common and defended. If so much seems so wrong, and one mistake is treated the same as literally espousing Nazi-esque ideas, then should we be surprised when the real monsters and monstrous ideas come out and become more prevalent/defended until they literally wipe out everything we all hold dear?
We need to return to common sense sanity. Obviously it’s absurd to treat someone saying what Kanye said the same as someone who simply shared a joke about women, for example. Stop cancelling people for the latter and the like, so everyone can unite to stop the former—so most everyone can unite to stop the truly dangerous ideas that threaten everything.
Bill Maher is making the case far more eloquently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8t86Fi2JQ
This may be one of the least thoughtful comments that I’ve read on here in a long time (which says something).
Cancel culture doesn’t create hate.
Oh really? Because it’s clearly led to this, one of the biggest musicians on the planet going from controversially stating “white lives matter” to now espousing antisemitism in an effort to normalize it. It’s all a byproduct of this rigid cancel culture.
Think about it this way: If the law states the punishment for robbing a bank is life in prison, and that is the same as the punishment for murder, what do you think is far more likely to happen in that universe during bank robberies? Murder, of course, as some robbers will do whatever it takes now to escape capture since the consequences of killing people is no different than the consequences of robbing a bank. This is also why environments with harsh punishments sometimes have worse levels of violent crimes than more forgiving environments (or at least places that do not treat robbery with violence the same as robbery without violence).
When a society punishes minor transgressions the same as the worst of the worst, which is basically what this cancel culture environment is starting to resemble, we will inevitably get massive backlash at the same time as the rise of the worst of the worst, including an expansion of really dangerous ideas such as antisemitism. This is happening right now and would not be happening if not for cancel culture/extreme-holier-than-thou-wokeness.
In contrast, a more forgiving environment for minor transgressions such as sharing an off-color joke about women, is an environment where we can really ostracize the monsters/monstrous ideas like antisemitism. Let’s return to such common sense sanity please. Less judgment and more forgiveness will bring back common sense sanity, a place where we still ostracize the worst of the worst instead of treating people who commit minor transgressions the same as the worst and the worst (because we are seeing what happens when we foolishly do not delineated between levels of bad behavior/ideas). That’s how we can progress incrementally and eventually have love, peace and understanding throughout society (as older, more biased generations/ideas die off over time), instead of a backlash like we are seeing right now that has the potential to cause fascism to make a massive comeback (and yes, they will eventually come for a group you belong to, too, regardless of who you may be - the fascists won’t stop with illegal immigrants, they won’t stop with socialists, they won’t stop with Jewish people, etc.).
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