Ritual Public Shaming

[livingston]

The Red Guards are back.

 

[Calculon]

I thought you wrote “shaving.”

 

[Calculon]

We allowed our schools to be infested with socialists and we’re paying the price.

 

[libertysnake]

Regular people cannot speak their mind because cancel / firing culture has permeated so many companies.

I get the idea that we should vote with our feet and wallets when it comes to things outrageous. If a company is really doing horrible shit (IE, if Indian Point was found to dump nuclear waste right in the Hudson or something) of course I'd be pist at them. Real outage makes sense.

The problem is society has gotten to a point where even rational ideological differences have become grounds for cancel culture. People actively look for things to be outraged over, and, like a game, engage in this extreme shaming.

The only way to solve this problem, is that people who are "anti-cancel culture" need to actively discriminate against "pro-cancel culture" people. We need to cancel the cancel culture, but nothing else.

That's how we get rid of this extreme public shaming horse shit.

 

[spat]

Regular people cannot speak their mind because cancel / firing culture has permeated so many companies.

I get the idea that we should vote with our feet and wallets when it comes to things outrageous. If a company is really doing horrible shit (IE, if Indian Point was found to dump nuclear waste right in the Hudson or something) of course I'd be pist at them. Real outage makes sense.

The problem is society has gotten to a point where even rational ideological differences have become grounds for cancel culture. People actively look for things to be outraged over, and, like a game, engage in this extreme shaming.

The only way to solve this problem, is that people who are "anti-cancel culture" need to actively discriminate against "pro-cancel culture" people. We need to cancel the cancel culture, but nothing else.

That's how we get rid of this extreme public shaming horse shit.

We need to get back to a world where "being offended" by something was looked at as a sign of weakness and not a virtue.

Oh, also where "weakness" was not considered a virtue either.

We have created a culture where people strive to be as useless and offended as possible (the logical consequence of marxism).

This is diametrically opposed to the culture of rugged individualism that made this country great.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]