Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Jan 29 2022 17:30:02

  Re: Re: Computer Kits
  By: Jeff to Arelor on Sat Jan 29 2022 03:50 pm

 > "Cancel culture" is in no way new to either social media or the 21st century
 > For centuries, the Catholic church waged pressure campaigns (far more
 > aggressive than what we've been discussing here) on ideas and opinions with
 > which they disagreed. You're worried about not being able to sell stuff in a
 > certain market, but people in the past faces being tortured and executed in
 > some pretty horrendous ways.
 > 
 > Jeff.

What I find mostly impressive is that you are able to put out a defense for
cancel culture and at the same time show a nice example of cancel culture gone
out of control.

Cancel culture is not ignoring what somebody has to say. It is about cancelling
people. That is why it is called cancel culture. Cancellation being an
euphemism for destroying the livehood of whoever you disagree with.

Nosolorol sucks and deserves total obliteration (for reasons out of the scope
of this article) but the campaign they got was not about "teaching" them a
lesson or anything. I don't think it even had a goal. It was just a crowd with
pitchforks screaming "die die die!"

If you believe in second chances and rehabilitation you must concede that
somebody who has no pending causes with justice deserves another chance for
making things right. If you don't believe that criminals can be reintroduced
into society it makes sense for you to claim Nosolorol deserved a cancel
campaign because scumbags must not be forgiven.

I suspect you lay strongly in the second field (since you are supporting
extrajudicial justice against people who has already served) in which case,
yes, it makes sense for you to like Social Media and defend it to death. It is
the platform that allows people to go full Charles Bronson in Deathwish and
beat the people they hate out of court.

Which leads to the conclussion: I consider that a big con instead of a big
plus. If anything, your argumentation has reinforced my opinion that Social
Media these days is the tool for a lot of modern day evil.


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