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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Neera Tanden has a new appreciation of cancel culture.

I mean, come on Socks, you think N years from now you should be fired from your job cause you wrote some shit online?

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Good question. Part of the problem is the politicization of so much of our public discourse in the past 4 years. Before Trump, political discussions were rarely important to a broad spectrum of the US population. Now, just wearing a mask is supposedly a political statement. It's ridiculous.

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Let me rephrase that, say in some arbitrary amount of years, some reporter finds something you wrote, here, in some random argument that goes against the current ideology. How would you feel being fired from your job, all those little socklettes depending on you, because you said some now verboten thing.

It's all well and good when it's just cancelling people who say "Wrong Things," but the problem is, public opinion shifts, never know when you find yourself on the wrong end of a pointy stick.

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Yes - and I recall that Tanden deleted Tweets before she was interviewed, but that wasn't enough. I know people who keep the absolute minimal online signature because of this kind of thing. The cancel culture I think of when posting the meme is not related directly to this, but to concerns about statues &c. I was curious what Saidit would think. So it helps to have this info.