Is cancel culture real or is it just a right-wing myth?

Personally, I think it does exist but it's niche and massively blown up by the right. Conservative YouTubers seem much more obsessed with university social science departments than anyone else on the planet. If you complain about being 'cancelled' it's the fastest way to get a book deal but then if you criticise the government of Israel you get called an anti-semite.

BTW, most of the 'free-speech absolutists' on this site will never read this post because they have blocked me. Oh well.

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REMsleep · 41-45, F

Its real. Not just on the right. The right speaks about it only in terms of conservative vs liberal but even withn various niche communities people are trying to cancel this person or that.
I'd say that cancel culture is real but its just people online whinning and sometimes sponsors fire people so as not to loose customers or brand value.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@REMsleep Yeah I can agree with that. Corporations (Post-modern neo Marxists that they are.., LOLZ) don't want any controversy and fire people too easily.

What is not real is the framing and the emphasis the right put on this.

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@Burnley123 Well the right get off on fear mongering. The left does it too but I think that the right takes the cake on stirring folks up over nothing or badly framing arguments for personal gain.
Miseducating their audience.
But Dems are no boyscouts either.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@REMsleep I'm British, not America but I think the same dynamics apply in each of our countries. I think the left does some nasty stuff on social media, true. Then the right builds a whole industry to complain about how unfair that it.