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Cancel Culture


aRdja
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On 10/07/2020 at 15:21, aRdja said:

All over Twitter... Chomsky’s weighed in too. We’ve recently had a right wing MP (Pauline Hanson) banned from appearing on the national tele for saying racist things. RLB got sacked for RTing an article containing a questionable sentence in the UK. How big a problem is this do you think?

I don't understand it, so I think it's a new way of repackaging hate speech.

 

You can be a racist and say racist things, but you don't have the right to do that in a public forum without consequences.  And that's in law, and has been for some time.  if we're going to decriminalise it, ok, then do that, get rid of the Equalities Act.  If you don't, then you have a problem. 

 

Take Twitter for example, it's THEIR platform, they get to choose where their line is.  Same with a boozer, the landlord can chuck you out provided they're not doing something illegal under something like the Equalities Act.  If you want 'a' social media platform to be racist on, then go to Parlor, which seems to be the only reason it's been set-up.

 

It seems that a few racist/sexist/fascist dickheads feel that they are entitled to the world's attention.  They are not. 

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2 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

I don't understand it, so I think it's a new way of repackaging hate speech.

 

You can be a racist and say racist things, but you don't have the right to do that in a public forum without consequences.  And that's in law, and has been for some time.  if we're going to decriminalise it, ok, then do that, get rid of the Equalities Act.  If you don't, then you have a problem. 

 

Take Twitter for example, it's THEIR platform, they get to choose where their line is.  Same with a boozer, the landlord can chuck you out provided they're not doing something illegal under something like the Equalities Act.  If you want 'a' social media platform to be racist on, then go to Parlor, which seems to be the only reason it's been set-up.

 

It seems that a few racist/sexist/fascist dickheads feel that they are entitled to the world's attention.  They are not. 

Fucking snowflakes. 

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There's definitely an argument that throwing them off the platform just further strengthens the silent majority, but most of the silent majority are so fucking pig ignorant that keeping them there and trying to reason with them doesn't work either. Definitely need to find a way to sterilise people at trump rallies.

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22 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

People - and young people especially - feel powerless in the face of traditional political and social systems that seem to lack accountability. The only place they are able to gain any kind of traction is on social media, primarily Twitter. Looking at the BLM movement, I find it heartening that the ubiquity of camera phones, in tandem with social media, has made it easy to identify perpetrators of heinous acts - from racism to police brutality - and the consequences are their own to bear.

 

The problem is when this drive for accountability becomes reductionist, and starts categorising every act of push back against a held belief as a micro-aggression that denotes an underlying hatred, rather than part of an open discourse that's necessary, and in the benefit of everyone.

 

This is what develops into cancel culture, and it's in danger of swirling in ever decreasing circles towards an infinitesimally small cabal of overly pious, high horse perched, naval gazing, ivory tower sitting, sniffing their own farts whilst holding pitchforks group of do-gooders who've somehow managed never to stray from an accepted script. Blissfully unaware that by creating a system without degrees, where the punishments for transgressions lack any grading, they are nourishing the overly simplistic feedback model that enables - and indeed emboldens - populism and all the evils associated with it to flourish. 

Nicely put, although I would argue that people, young and other don't feel powerless, it's the opposite, they feel empowered by (mainly ) technological developments that brought about certain changes in how society and political system works. Mechanisms of how you maintain power have changed with the demise of many mainstream media and traditional political parties that relied on traditional gate keeping practices and structures, so road to entry is now much more fluid and battle is increasingly being fought in public, where everyone is at the same time a communicator and a targeted recipient. This is, I think, why this battle is so fierce and suppressing opposing opinions so ferocious.


Historically, most revolutions, revolts, upheavals came about not when the group driving them was powerless but when there was a discrepancy between their actual economic or other power and the ability to transfer that into political power.  

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22 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

People - and young people especially - feel powerless in the face of traditional political and social systems that seem to lack accountability. The only place they are able to gain any kind of traction is on social media, primarily Twitter. Looking at the BLM movement, I find it heartening that the ubiquity of camera phones, in tandem with social media, has made it easy to identify perpetrators of heinous acts - from racism to police brutality - and the consequences are their own to bear.

 

The problem is when this drive for accountability becomes reductionist, and starts categorising every act of push back against a held belief as a micro-aggression that denotes an underlying hatred, rather than part of an open discourse that's necessary, and in the benefit of everyone.

 

This is what develops into cancel culture, and it's in danger of swirling in ever decreasing circles towards an infinitesimally small cabal of overly pious, high horse perched, naval gazing, ivory tower sitting, sniffing their own farts whilst holding pitchforks group of do-gooders who've somehow managed never to stray from an accepted script. Blissfully unaware that by creating a system without degrees, where the punishments for transgressions lack any grading, they are nourishing the overly simplistic feedback model that enables - and indeed emboldens - populism and all the evils associated with it to flourish. 

I was with you until you went after the self-sniffing farters (or Perpetrators, as we prefer to be called) Why the fuck did you have to drag us into it? 

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It seems that Frankie has been happy to throw the world ‘tranny’ around in the past.  Catching up with him to tonight. But he’ll no doubt escape as he’s on the ‘right’ side.

 
saying women get cervical cancer - wrong

call trans people ‘trannies’ - ok 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Rico1304 said:

It seems that Frankie has been happy to throw the world ‘tranny’ around in the past.  Catching up with him to tonight. But he’ll no doubt escape as he’s on the ‘right’ side.

 
saying women get cervical cancer - wrong

call trans people ‘trannies’ - ok 

 

Not to mention his snide attacks over the years on a poor disabled kid who's just been rushed into intensive care.

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