What is cancel culture?

Well, I suppose one is a personal action and the other is a kind of coercion. Do you not believe that people have the right to boycott a store they don't like for one reason or another? That they don't have the right to start a movement about it? How is that McCarthyism?

 

It's odd, isn't it? It doesn't matter what the subject matter is, the two sides of this forum will never see eye to eye. I don't see the problem with boycotting or exercising personal freedoms and rights to oppose a company or something else you don't like/agree with - but it seems folks on the Right are dead against it. Who knew?

 

Oh I do believe that people should have the right to boycott whatever businesses they want, although I'm not sure why that would be called "cancel culture." People have been boycotting businesses in this country since we've been a country. What is cancel culture is when the mob decides to punish someone for, say, a bad joke on twitter by getting them fired and making them unemployable. I'm not sure what the point of that is.

 

Cancel culture seems to be a no-holds-barred mentality where you seek to destroy someone by any means necessary. It's not merely personal choices not to buy Nike's, it's digging up 10-year old posts by someone online and getting them fired from their job by doxing them, as an example.

 

I will be all for it when it applies to Democrats.

 

Cancel Culture, today, is just another example of the left pushing pushing pushing to get their way at any conceivable cost.
Someone quoted a rap song 10 years ago and they're the wrong color? Get them fired.

Our society has lost all ability to forgive, and most of its ability to think.

 

And you have every right to do so. How you pick and choose your causes is YOUR choice. Don't let anyone else tell you different.

 

Any kind of blow back from anything anyone says, but not if absolutely not if it's anti-trump, then it's 100% not cancel culture, we should totally cancel them, but when it's against popular culture, but not when it's rightist, but it is when they have any critique of trump, but never if it's pro-trump, but totally when we don't like it... did that clear it up?

 

Racists think they can display their racism in public without consequence. They're wrong.

Cancel culture is a myth. It's business owners looking out for the bottom line. That average joes and janes pressure companies to do this is called boycotting and protesting. Old as the hills.

Here's an experiment for someone to try. If you don't need your job, that is. Go to Facebook and start promoting your employer's competitor. Let us know how long you can keep it going. Free speech!!!

 

People speaking up is rooted in our Constitution. For decades (or more) there has been 'Letters to the Editor' that allowed for the people to make their opinions heard. The difference now is that we have access to millions of eyes and ears with the internet - and people seem comfortable jumping on board. What the world needs are stronger back boned employers who will stand up to requests that are unreasonable.

 

IMO cancel culture is RW for boycott. Which has been around a long time.

For some reason RW thinks it's bad now so they gave it a different name.

Social media makes it happen faster and more effective.

 

Spot on

 

As the poster mentioned, it's happening to white males. They don't like it.
No one does. But the script has flipped.

People that had been doing the cancelling against groups of people are seeing it reverse.

 

Hopefully, Conservatives would learn the art of boycott. Hopefully Conservatives would start pressuring companies and businesses not to hire anyone who has been a part of any Woke Cancel Mob. But how long will it take?

 

If someone falsely accuses you of Sexual Misconduct, you would also be Presumed Guilty. A long history of being an ally to misandry would not help you.

 

Hopefully Conservatives will learn to use this right.

Boycott a business that employs a Progressive who has pressured a company to fire someone for Conservative speech.

Boycott a small business. The janitor's daughter is promoting intolerant Leftist agenda in California.

 

It is not about oneself at all it is about others. If one chooses not to say racist things it is canceling nothing, When one demands others be fired or shut down for what one percieves as wrong think it is cancel culture.

The irony is that left winm=gers are practicing it when they used to oppose it. Cancel culture is nothing more than modern mccarthyism. Most of the affects of mccarthyism had nothing to do with Joe Mccarthy. For example the hollywood blacklists. They were not led or directed or inspired by Joe Mccarthy but they were quite real. Left wingers whined about people losing their jobs because they were believed to be communists or communist sympathizers. But they whole heartedly support this if someone is believed to be racist or a fascist or a nazi or a homophobe or anything that they hate.

A blind man can see the hypocrisy

 

No falsley about it.
If you're upset about it now. You shouldn't have done it in the past

 

Can you?
Did you boycott target?
NFL?
RW is also full of hypocrisy.

 

Anyone can be falsely accused -- this is why we used to have Presumption of Innocence.

When it happens to you, none of your support of Presumption of Guilt would count.

PS. I agree with Liberals on many issues. I oppose guns. I oppose White Nationalism. I support Welfare.

But Liberal support for False Accusations and Presumption of Guilt is truly Evil.

 

Bill Mahr disagrees.

 

Try discussing this Bill Mahr

 

like phil donahue and the dixie chicks? being anti war is the greatest way to be cancelled, a tradition going back farther than thoreau.

 

didn't the president of the screen actors guild testify against the blacklisted people at the mccarthy hearings?

Ronald Reagan testifies before HUAC (1947) (alphahistory.com)

 

No he did not.

Mccarthy had nothing what so ever to do with HUAC. Those were not Mccarthy hearings they were House Unamerican Activities Committee hearings ( HUAC ).

Joe Mccarthy was a senator,not a member of the House of representatives, and had nothing at all to do with their hearings or committees.