Social Media Bans The Voicing Of Different Opinions
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Nope, they didn't ban Icke because he was "voicing an opinion", they banned him for being a stupid conspiracy theorist
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Thought-provoking article. I, for one, am tired of overuse of the term Cancel Culture. In many if not most cases, what we mean is more a case of
Break up
Boycott
Discard
Ignore
Fire
Outgrow
Lose interest in
Avoid
Divorce
Move on
(Etc)
It’s generally not the case that one expression can be stretched to accurately cover multiple disparate situations. “Cancel Culture” is a linguistically lazy attempt to do just that.
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Does it mean if I have a different opinion to a woke person, I can get them banned?
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Why not just ignore them?
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Why not just ignore them?
In today's lingo, ignore equals cancel.
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I think a lot of people are in need of some real history lessons.
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In today's lingo, ignore equals cancel.
Exactly. So why shrink our global vocabulary to one-word-fits-all, ignoring all nuance?
Perhaps “cancel” implies some feeling of controlling the person or situation, giving the canceller a false sense of power?
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Splinter
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