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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MistyCee

I guess it exists, as there are clearly people out there who don't like what other people say, when and where and to whom they say it.

How prevalent, defined, organized, threatening,and malicious this particular aspect of the conspiracy against "Conservatives" it is seems like a different story.

Maybe we should ask Salman Rushdie?

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@MistyCee Oh yeah. He still has to live in fear because of what he wrote criticising Islam. Sold millions of books, so never technically canceled. What happened to him was not cool, though I'm not really seeing it as the same thing as the normal 'cancel culture' debate.

MistyCee

@Burnley123 Hmmm. I'm not sure the "normal" cancel culture debate is what's happening sometimes anymore, when the people whining about how its being used against them are often motivated by faith and seem to see their leader as a prophet or some sort of infallible semi deity.

Sure, it's extreme and different, but at root it's still about who should be able to say what and what consequences there should be for saying it.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@MistyCee I don't consider faith a virtue and I lack a capacity for it.

I have no faith in anything or anyone . Everything and everyone must prove itself or themselves.

really is weird. Although I agree with you about that particular case.

MistyCee

@BetweenKittensandRiots I don't value faith over reason much myself, but I don't find it completely valueless and it can be useful sometimes.

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@Burnley123 A fatwa is not cancel culture.