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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BlueVeins · 22-25

Cancel culture is real and not entirely good, but it's always existed and it's not exclusively left-wing as they'd like to claim. I seriously doubt, for example, that you'd have kept your day job if you published a Satanic book in the year 1900, and homosexual literature faced challenges from the US Post Office itself in the '50s.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@BlueVeins [quote]not exclusively left-wing as they'd like to claim.[/quote]

Totally

I am pretty involved in left politics but I have never knowingly met anyone who has engaged in cancelling of anyone.

The left (as opposed to liberals) are pre-cancelled anyway. We have much much less access to media platforms than anyone. I think so much of the debate around this has a disingenuous emphasis and relies on heavy cherry-picking.

A group of students get a professor fired for saying something borderline racist and it's presented as an Orwellian takeover. YouTubers with a million subscribers talk for months about how they are not allowed to say anything.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@Burnley123 The YouTubers, in fairness, kind of have a point. Since YouTube has very, very little personnel resources, they police almost all content creation using bots, which demonetize almost all non-corporate polical content as well as anything (positive OR negative) concerning LGBT+ stuff. The right still uses this dishonestly in pretending that it's only them.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@BlueVeins Yes, I know that plenty of left and right Youtubers have been demonitised for reasons you say. Youtube also does provide platforms for far-right ideas.