Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Cancel Culture. Incredibly, the Harper's letter spawned a bunch of people saying that there is no such thing as cancel culture. As Steven Pinker has argued, cancel culture has parallels with the Chinese cultural revolution and the European witch hunts.

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[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You cherry picked one example? How about showing proofs of widespread cancel culture propagated by the right.

[–]Nelumbo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

how about you guys stop moving the goalposts? the jesus comic is enough to show that right wingers have the power to cancel things, I'm not gonna go looking for more evidence when the response is just gonna be "but that wasn't REAL censorship" everytime (and I didn't even have to do any research to find out about that comic, I just saw it in the news some time ago).

also "the Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations, and the band members received death threats", they got so succesfully canceled they had to give a fake apology. when you claim I gave one example, well that's a way to show that you don't even care to look into the examples I provide.

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I understand that the right can engage in the cancel scourge, but I mostly see this on a smaller more grassroots level...which is what your very few examples seem to indicate. I think what is most glaring is the left leaning cancel cancer being promoted by the mainstream...we're talking Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon etc...for some reason corporations seem to be very interested in pushing a left leaning narrative, even to their financial disadvantage. Which would indicate the reasons for this supercede actually making money, and have a possibly more covert motivation.

If mega corporations approve of your message, you should step back and reflect on your message with suspicion.

[–]Nelumbo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

for some reason corporations seem to be very interested in pushing a left leaning narrative, even to their financial disadvantage.

Is it really to their financial disadvantage? I'm not sure what you're referring to where they have lost money doing this.

Which would indicate the reasons for this supercede actually making money, and have a possibly more covert motivation.

What's that motivation?

If mega corporations approve of your message, you should step back and reflect on your message with suspicion.

Well, Reddit banned leftist subs too, like r/chapotraphouse and those for radical feminists.