In effect, you have responded by telling me that you can’t verify the claim or claims I was asking about, but here is another claim that you can verify. The paper he presumably based that tweet thread on (Gibson and Sutherland, 2020) is linked above in my comment @154 (and in the Twitter thread) and easily cross-checked. As a starting point, consider Hofstadters classic essay, The Paranoid Style in American Politics,A common feature of populist rhetoric is that all problems get blamed on some enemy, that is felt (by the popilists) to be malign and foreign, e.g. But you should realize that it exists in every case where someone does something off the job, and the cancelers try to get them fired, because the logic is “your company is horribly tainted by have X as a worker”. In my own case, no. Nathan Bedford Forrest should not be forgotten, but he should not be celebrated; there are some things which If you try to judge a case like that purely on formal grounds, you have to say that a celebration of a historical figure’s birthday shouldn’t be cancelled. My approximate sense is that by the end of the 80s people were generally starting to take domestic violence seriously as a problem, and not as something to joke about and accept. That suggests that (at least on the left) cancel culture is mainly about public opprobrium. Thanks, G. KleinHe also noted elsewhere that “previously he had received a directive from his supervisor in the undergraduate Accounting program that instructors should only adjust final exam policies and protocols based on standard university practices regarding grading[:] {“If students ask for accommodations such as assignment delays or exam cancellations, I strongly encourage you to follow the normal procedures (accommodations from the CAE office, death/illness in the family, religious observance, etc. Then the board booted him for being too close to Trump! But, as a trend, it seems to be growing, and I think it’s reasonable for regular people to be concerned at the possibility that one day, it might be targeted at them. Their suffering should control our responses to the situation. On the contrary, lower-status people are virtuous when they attack other low-status people who criticize higher-status people. Senior curator of painting and sculpture at the SF Museum of Modern Art.
Congratulations.Plus, bear in mind, you’re taking the side of guys who write enthusiastically about pedophilia against women who lost their homes and livelihoods for the Cultural change is hard.The current frouhaha about a well known pop star with initials TS seems relevant. Is the implication that Nelson or Weiss would be the right-wingers doing the targeting? This is why free speech absolutism is stupid: the people whose speech you’re protecting won’t even thank you before they use their protected speech to get you killed.AS IF his Dad -(or mom) never had taught him – THAT if he says Racist and NASTY and STUPID stuff – he HAS to be send to his room –Jerry Vinokurov@120 “The cancel culture agita is nothing but people who are unaccustomed to having the peons talk back to them losing their minds because they got dragged on Twitter.”Just because QAnon and Trump’s tweets are not labeled “cancel culture” doesn’t mean you should make excuses for petty meanness that will never accomplish any of the goals alleged by its practitioners. Not what the right-wing zealots say, under the false flag of “free speech”: not bringing back a regime in which the powerful can use slurs to subjugate the powerless.No: if someone repeatedly uses the n-word in order to inflict pain and humiliation on others, then they should suffer real consequences. Identifying the single salient fact to rally people around is harder if that fact is rooted in the “offline” world. This was a pretty standard form of bullying when I was young, and this kind of misgendering if done by a man to a man would be considered out-and-out bullying. It was published on the 30Th anniversary of tiannanmen square and called for the use of troops against protesters.