What it's like to be cancelled
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What it's like to be cancelled
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Re: What it's like to be cancelled
#2History does not repeat itself but it rhymes.
Rhymes with witch hunt and lynch mob.
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#3Great blog-post. I find it pointless for this 'cancelling-cult' to even be a thing. It achieves nothing but destruction and it is beyond medieval standards.
It's like the mob wants to find a new villain every week, because of a somewhat past 'crime' on Twitter or a mistake that we disavowed our younger-self online and they still force us to apologise for it.
Even when we begin to apologise, it is never enough and they go to great lengths to cancel anyone who either doesn't agree with them or basically just want to be part of pushing 'this game' too far. No point in apologising or reasoning with them if they aren't go to accept the apology. They'll just continue the witch-hunt and move on to the next villain to be thrown into the lost and banned.
This cancelling-cult has got to stop. It has gotten out of control.
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#4Twitter is vile. I thought that the day the company started, and never created an account; nothing good can come from a platform like Twitter.
It's a failure of our laws that there's no recourse to this kind of libel, either against Twitter for basing their business model on it, or the individuals responsible for spreading it. Lives are consistently destroyed and everyone just shrugs their shoulders and goes "aw-shucks."
Natalie Wynn talks about this on Contrapoints, worth watching as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8
Re: What it's like to be cancelled
#5Be anonymous. Be obscure. Stop talking to people on the internet.
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#6I'm a bit sceptical about this because it talks very little about what happened that caused OP to get "cancelled", and an awful lot about how they came back from it. I do understand, first-hand, the trauma that comes from being cancelled (although I have like 1500 followers on Twitter so you could argue the stakes are less) and there's no doubt that it is a bitch. But there is something to take away from it - or at least there was in my case - which was that I, in fact, was an asshole. That does not seem to be the overarching narrative of this post, and I do not see a lot of learning they have done from being cancelled.
In conclusion, kudos to the way you bounced back but I really wish there was a bit more introspection into how you see your past behaviour in the light of being cancelled.
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#7Be anonymous. Be obscure. Stop talking to people on the internet.
That is - stop using the internet as the disruptive communications network it way designed to be.
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#8I'm a bit sceptical about this because it talks very little about what happened that caused OP to get "cancelled", and an awful lot about how they came back from it. I do understand, first-hand, the trauma that comes from being cancelled (although I have like 1500 followers on Twitter so you could argue the stakes are less) and there's no doubt that it is a bitch. But there is something to take away from it - or at l…
There's a little more context here: https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...
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#9I looked into this briefly (against my better judgment). He stated in his apology that he was a 'sexual predator' and that he 'pressured women into sex'. So yeah, a lot of organisations now don't want to associate with him. It's nice that he's sorry for what he did, but actions have consequences. And the line between pressuring people into sex and raping them is very, very fine.
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#10I guess the simple rule of not being a dick still holds a little truth.