"Cancel Culture"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

I can assure you it's the last thing on a median voter's mind and that's assuming he or she even knows what it is.

[flibbitygiblets]

1. But telling people to boycott Goodyear, and sabotaging the USPS, that's okay...

and trying to get rid of TikTok, and Amazon, and anyone and anything else that dares not lavish our dear leader with praise and attention.

Cancel culture my patoot.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Goodyear is only one of two American tire manufacturers.

The other one is Cooper. No automobile manufacturer is going to put the latter on their automobiles.

[Grokenstein]

9. And the election! Republicans would LOVE to cancel that!

If it's "not safe" to vote in person, and "not safe" to cast an absentee/mail-in vote...what's the next step?

[bamagal62]

2. I find it a weird term.

Who actually came up with it?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Most likely a wing nut.

[unblock]

5. It's a weird concept. Like we're supposed to keep buying products from people we find offensive.

Or watching shows we find offensive.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. So is political correctness.

You have the right to say bigoted things and people have the right to shun you. Cancel culture is 2020 for political correctness.

[unblock]

8. That term once had a legitimate meaning

Once upon a time, it was used among liberals to encourage each other to practice what they preach. If they find certain words offensive, they should avoid using those words themselves so as not to be hypocritical.

it's not "politically correct" to use sexist terms if your politics push's for equal respect for women, for example.

That's was all well and good until the right wing overheard our discussions and decided the term was directed at them, which it wasn't. It's not "politically incorrect" to use sexist terms if your politics says women have a different (inferior) role than men.

The term doesn't even make sense in that context, but the right wing loves to think it's all about them and they live to think they're under attack, so they screamed holy hell about how offensive the term was to them.

And here we are....

[Grokenstein]

10. They co-opt everything and try to twist it against us.

[delisen]

11. No just don't become part of a vicious bullying mob

[betsuni]

7. "While the terminology of cancel culture may be new and most applicable to social media

through Black Twitter, in particular, the concept of being cancelled is not new to black culture."

Anne Charity Hudley, linguistics of African America professor at UC Santa Barbara

[bamagal62]

12. Makes more sense.