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On cancel culture etc.

If we had a worthwhile media, or even a worthwhile set of elite talking heads, instead of the grifters we do have, there would be a better discussion of what Cancel Culture actually entails in its many many forms. Some of it actually aligns with the cultural wars in the US (and worldwide, tbf), but some of it doesn't. [1]

An example is Norman Finkelstein being cancelled by Palestinians for not being sufficiently pro-BDS. Some bullshit if you ask me. [2] Especially given that his views on BDS and the great march of Return aren't bad things to discuss. But a better example of censorship in colleges is given here and this seems like a better analysis of it all. And note how many pressures on free speech are silent (and powerful). 

Beyond all this is the bullying that goes on online (in many forms both implicit and explicit and which could be blamed for the rise in teenage self harm (especially for girls)) and can sometimes overlap with what's in the cultural wars [3]. That being said, there are real powers and real money to be had in silencing critics. So you have this method as well. 





Read the whole thing, it's pretty good. There are simple copyright thieves who then use the tech companies bare bones report mechanisms to silence their critics. But this method is also 

[1] For whatever it's worth much of cancel Culture is from the right, though it has been picking up from the left recently. Still the power resides in the right so one must never get that twisted. 

[2] I'll say it once, and as many times for the people in the back, much of it is part of internet culture (silencing, while also knowing that to a certain extent time given, or signal boosting matters in terms of censorship etc), but much of what the left is doing matches up with what I'm used to seeing from the right. So though I'm against it, I don't know how much of it is simply acknowledgement of how power and speech actually does work and working towards an end goal (and fuck maybe they're right, this is the way to fight). Take the Chappell issue in that only a Black Trans woman was fired, so though I appreciate David, he missed the powers that exist in the world. Make sense?

[3] Also kinda complex as people don't actually know what appropriation or a host of other things mean, they do know it's taboo so they will use ill-defined (in their minds) terms to lash out at others and silence them. 

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