Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Arelor
From : Jeff
Date : Sun Jan 30 2022 12:28:35

On 30 Jan 2022, Arelor said the following...
 Ar>  > The opposite of "cancel culture gone out of control" is not "no cancel
 Ar>  > culture." There is, and always has been, a spectrum of "cancel culture"
 Ar>  > society. More importantly, it's not novel to social media.

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

The conversation originated as a discussion of the supposed evils of social
media.

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

This is true. However, the people in village X were not buying anything from
the leathersmith in village Y anyway, so the point is moot.

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

Personal acquaintace has never been a prerequisite for boycotting.

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

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Some people are
definitely better at it than others, though. Here in the US, progressives
seeking to put economic pressure on a company typically organize boycotts or
put pressure on advertizers to abandon a certain market. For reasons unkown to
me, conservatives trying to exert economic pressure on a company tend to do so
by destroying their own possessions in spectacular fashion.

Jeff.

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