Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Jan 30 2022 05:28:04

  Re: Re: Computer Kits
  By: Jeff to Arelor on Sat Jan 29 2022 05:56 pm

 > The opposite of "cancel culture gone out of control" is not "no cancel
 > culture." There is, and always has been, a spectrum of "cancel culture" in
 > society. More importantly, it's not novel to social media.
 > 
 > Jeff.

Dunno, saying that modern cancel culture is not a big deal because there
already was cancel culture in the past is a lot like saying nuclear weapons are
not a big deal because people has been killing each other in the past too.

You didn't get the people from village X try to boicott into nothingness some
leathersmith from village Y for something he thought in the 16th Century.
The leathersmith in question might draw the rage of his own village folks at
best. There is a definitive difference in scale.

Social media makes the interaction impersonal, so it is very easy to dehumanize
the target of the cancellation campaign (it is not me saying it, it has already
been described by people with more experience in the fiueld than I). This is
also a qualitative difference.

The proponents of keeping vast nuclear arsenals are usually the people who has
the nuclear weapons, or who culturally identifies with the people who has the
nuclear weapons. My hipothesis is that cancel culture proponents nowadays
defend the practice because they feel they command this weapon of social mass
destruction.


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