Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.

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    It’s why the right wing invented ‘cancel culture’, to try to demonize people banding together to change things. This kind of public pressure is a form of people-power. There’s a nasty side to it all, but this is an existential battle for the writers and a mild inconvenience to Drew and Bill. I know what side I’m on.

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      It’s only ok to ‘cancel’ if a trans woman promotes a shitty beer. Otherwise it’s a problem.

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        The worst thing about that is when people stopped buying it because they immediately did a 180 on it. And the media said it was all because of rightwingers even after the company did what they wanted.

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      Cancel culture is fucking terrible in most cases. Let’s not excuse it because of some rare cases where it achieved something good.

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        Do you have any specific examples? I assume you must, since according to you, most of the cases are fucking terrible.

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          Well there were the Dixie Chicks getting canceled by conservatives for opposing the war. Probably not an example the fella you’re replying to wants to admit to, tho.

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            You could call it cancel culture or your could just call it pissing off your fanbase. This has always existed and will always exist. I don’t agree with the old dixie chicks fanbase but if they thought they could be antiwar and keep playing on country radio they were very misled.

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            Thanks for the assumption, saying that getting people to support a strike is a good thing is something most right-wing people do I guess.

            Wanna add Sinead O’Connor to people harmed by right-wing cancel culture, for example? The list doesn’t even stop there.

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          Jenna Marbles? Kentaro Kobayashi? Pretty much anyone who got “cancelled” for stuff they said or did 10 years before?

          People should be held accountable for what they’re currently doing, ruining a career for something that happened ages ago which no one at the time found wrong is just stupid.

          EDIT: Meanwhile, can you tell me some other examples of cancel culture actually doing something good? Because looking at common examples it seems pretty much every time it targeted someone who actually deserved it nothing came out of that (JK Rowling, Chris Brown… even people like Hulk Hogan or Kanye West are still around and doing sold-outs)

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            Sounds like you’re complaining about the free market. People don’t like something that was unearthed about someone, so they don’t support them.

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              It’s not a matter of “not supporting”. Marbles was harassed into closing her channel and Kobayashi lost probably the most important job of his life. Those have nothing to do with the “free market”.

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                Who are these people? They sound like virtual nobodies. I doubt they were ‘cancelled’ by anyone. They probably said something very stupid and got kicked off some social media app or other. Or, worse, *gasp* demonetized! Better get selling more Soylent.

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                  “I don’t know them so they must be nobodies”, ok.

                  Did you even look them up for a second? I can remotely imagine you think that about Jenna Marbles (and I don’t think a “virtual nobody” can get a wax statue at Madame Tussauds honestly), but Kobayashi was supposed to be the Director of the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony. So not really a nobody either, much less virtual since he barely did anything online.

                  Did you just google the first name and skimmed through the results page without even opening them?

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            “Cancel culture” is a bit of a loaded term and so the replies to you have been somewhat charged. Most people view the situations public figures find them in as just the necessary consequences of their actions. And like you, I agree that each situation should warrant a measured response from individuals based on the severity of the issue. It’s okay to not want to support people you don’t agree with, especially when the reason is agregious or harmful to others. The issue then is that everyone uses the same cudgel in the same manner for every crime regardless of severity.

            But sure, if you don’t want to support someone for even the smallest of infractions, that’s your right. No one can take that from you. I may not agree but I support your right to do so. My only wish is that we at least give pause to think about the high bar for acceptable behavior we’re putting on public figures. I am as much for accountability as the next person, but I also think we’re humans capable of mistakes and capable of change. And right now, I don’t think a culture of grace is necessarily present online. We don’t have to tolerate hate or harm, but we can leave room for redemption. Maybe I’m being naive, I don’t know. But that’s my take.

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        I never understood this view. What’s so terrible about not supporting people or things you don’t agree with? That’s what people should be doing.

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          It’s not about not supporting, it’s generating outrage online about stuff nobody cared about until the day before.

          I’m all for not supporting people who don’t deserve it, I regularly do it too. But one thing is ignoring and another is actively harassing people for stuff they probably already forgot about.

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            Boycotting and harassing are two very different things, and “cancel culture” is a right-wing buzzword that conflates them.

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              Most of the times I see the term in regards to people, not products/brands/companies, so I think the boycotting part is way less prevalent and rightfully called just “boycotting”.

              I’ll admit I haven’t researched the origin of the term (and it’s probably on the same level as “woke” in number of different definitions), but to me it’s mostly about people saying or doing something “controversial” and getting harassed/ostracized for that.

              And I say it’s terrible because when it affects fragile people, or generally people with a conscience, it works and ruins careers. When it’s towards ones like J.K. Rowling or Kanye West they just don’t care and keep working, making money like crazy while still being openly transphobic/racist.

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                If you structure your life so you can be heavily impacted by cancel culture, you’re either a shitty person or surround yourself with shitty people.

                Either way, it’s a win-win for everyone involved. They clearly don’t want to be together.

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            it’s generating outrage online about stuff nobody cared about until the day before.

            Oh you mean like Critical Race Theory, Drag Shows, and getting vaccinated?

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              Uhh… yes? Are you trying to frame me as some sort of right-wing nutjob? People who complain online about Drag Shows and Vaccines are not okay in the head, but what does that have to do with the discussion?

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                what does that have to do with the discussion?

                What do examples of cancel culture being used for bad things have to do with cancel culture being bad?

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                This discussion aside, I’m genuinely curious how much you fight back on posts supporting right-wing views vs. cancel culture.

                Something tells me you try way harder to fight against one than the other, and when you’re called out you just say, “oh yeah that other thing is bad too. Trust me guys.”

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            it’s generating outrage online about stuff nobody cared about until the day before.

            Kind of like the ‘f’ word? What about trans rights? Yeah, I remember when ‘nobody cared about that’ until, you know, they did.

            We’re growing up as a species. You can choose to join us or get left behind.

            You already have some catching up to do.

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          Again, as I said in other comments, I’m not talking about boycotting. You obviously shouldn’t support people you don’t like. But you also shouldn’t create online campaigns against them, unless they’re currently doing something bad and you want it to stop, which is not the case most of the time.

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            “Boycotts” are large scale campaign. Nobody cares if a few odd people don’t buy a product; it’s en-mass or it’s just belly aching. You’re making a distinction that does not exist.

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              unless they’re currently doing something bad and you want it to stop, which is not the case most of the time.

              That’s the difference.

              You want to stop buying Nestlé products because they are currently exploiting child labor? Nothing wrong with that, I’m on board. They need to stop.

              You want to “cancel” a musician because of comedy videos on a Youtube he already stopped posting 3 years earlier? That’s just stupid.

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            So for example Harvey Weinstein gets a pass on all his shitty rapey behavior? How long in the past does it need to be? What is the ‘statute of limitations’ on shitty activities?

            The Marbles woman did some shitty stuff. She agreed what she did was shit but issued the standard non-apology apology that she didn’t intend to hurt anyone with her shitty awful shit. Also she just quit. Apparently she made so much money it didn’t matter.

            I have no idea who kobayashi is other than a guy who quit the hot dog eating competition.

            If this is all you’ve got, it’s pretty thin sauce.

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              Weinstein did slightly worse than a blackface on youtube. The stuff he did would’ve been clearly seen as wrong even when he did them, it’s just that people didn’t know.

              No one cared about a random youtuber painting their face for a satirical video in 2011. But suddenly when it got dug up 10 years later she was the most horrible person on earth. That’s just hypocrisy.

              Kobayashi is a Japanese comedian that was chosen to direct the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. Suddenly a guy online posts one sketch from 20 years earlier where he mentioned the holocaust and poof, job gone. Because you wanted to be a little edgy on a comedy sketch about “stuff you can’t say on tv” on Japanese TV in 1998. Is that okay to you?

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            I think you are getting confused about the definition of cancel culture.

            Definition one: Not supporting celebrities when their problematic actions come to light. This is the one that was made to prevent people from banding against or facing consequences for their actions.

            Definition two: A harassment campaign where people bring up actions from years ago even when they changed, taking things wildly out of context, and calling out in bad faith to bully small-scale content creators.

            The commentor is talking about definition one here, and it seems that you are talking about definition two.

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              Exactly. But there’s not really a distinction in the term.

              I said it’s terrible as a whole, because actions taken in case one rarely have any considerable effect, while I can list a few for case two. If they were two separate terms I would’ve obviously been against the second definition only, but they’re all under the same umbrella.

              Not to mention people can make bad faith arguments for both (“yeah we just found out that guy raped 27 girls last year, but after that we don’t know anything so he’s changed!” / “ok, the only racist remarks that person did were 40 years ago, but have they really changed or are they just hiding it?”) so the line gets blurry.

              Overall, the number of “campaigns” that actually worked at “cancelling” a bad person is way too small to justify the harassment to all the other people. That’s why I think it’s not worth it, just support who you want, let people live their life and only harass them if they’re currently doing something bad (or if the bad thing they did in the past was straight-up illegal like the aforementioned Weinstein).

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            unless they’re currently doing something bad

            Ahh, this is his issue. He thinks that people should get a pass because they’ve gotten away with doing bad things in the past.

            Essentially, if you don’t catch them in the act, then you shouldn’t get to criticize them or hold them accountable.

            What a shitty take, probably from a shitty person who wants to be held to the same shitty standard so they can get away with similar shitty behavior.

            I feel bad for those close to you that have to put up with that.

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        “Cancel culture” is a catch-all slur. You can tell it’s effective because of how you phrased your post instead of considering who is being “canceled” and the reason for it. Bad guys are trying to catch a free pass by highlighting less serious offenses and calling it the same thing.

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          I don’t really see it like that, unless it’s something mainly done on right-wing circles.

          If people don’t want to stay on Twitter or Facebook because of all the stuff their owners are doing, that’s not Cancel Culture, that’s just having a brain. To me, a response to serious offenses is definitely not cancel culture, you can’t “cancel” billionaires.

          If not “cancel culture” though, what would you call what happens to those “less serious” offenders? Just “large-scale harassment”?