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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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

It does, but most of the time it is very much just very aggressive virtue signalling. Some companies have even successfully manipulated the phenomenon for profit. Nike made a fortune over right wingers burning their sneakers/trainers.

As much as the right likes to complain about it much of the tactics and even the motivations behind it can be traced back to evangelical purity culture of the 90s in particular as many former evangelicals have pointed out and started with trying to ban gangster rap and South Park.