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Cancel culture IRL

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d4m10n said:
Nayna puts forth the hypothesis that the crowd is comfortable with mass public shaming IRL b/c they've been acculterated to performative shaming online. I think he may be on to something here, if only because I've trouble imagining feeling that good about bullying someone like this.
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Seems to me that months of sustained street protests can better explain why groups of protesters might feel emboldened to make public demands. Why bend yourself over backwards trying to make some connection to internet wokescolds?

I see no hallmarks of the supposed "cancel culture" here. Nobody is trying or threatening to get anyone fired. Nobody is trying to dox this lady.

I think this is a useful example of the real definition of "cancel culture", which is any activity that reactionaries don't like.
 
So just any video of any altercation is "LOOKIT LIBRUL CANCEL CULTURE OMG PONIES!!11!!!" now?

Dear God look at this Cancel Culture! *Post screenshot of the 2019 Royal Rumble Match*
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
I think this is a useful example of the real definition of "cancel culture", which is any activity that reactionaries don't like.
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I think this here is an excellent example of going ad hominem instead of addressing the social phenomenon of mob justice.
 
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d4m10n said:
I think this here is an excellent example of going ad hominem instead of talking about the social phenomenon of mob justice.
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I see a mob, but no lynching.

This lady got shouted at. Not a pleasant experience, I'm sure, but I see no lingering injury.

I would agree that this group of protesters is engaging in dumb and tedious tactics here, but there's no scandal. Sucks that this lady's cafe visit was ******, life goes on.

How is this "cancel culture". Who got cancelled? What attempts were made to cancel anyone? This lady got shouted out by a passing group of misguided protesters. This is even more pathetic than the normal right wing grievance mongering.
 
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d4m10n said:
What are they demanding of the woman in the pink blouse?
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Given the chants of "white silence is violence", i'm assuming they want some gesture of solidarity with the general BLM protest movement.

How is this cancel culture? She got yelled at. Cry me a river already.
 
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Here I am being told that progressives are the real snowflakes.

How is this story of a lady getting yelled at newsworthy?

I'm sure watching the video gave Andy Ngo another brain injury, but other than that, what's the scandal here?

With all the riots and such going on these days, you'd think the reactionary right could churn out some better outrage bait than this.
 
JoeMorgue said:
WHY THE **** ARE YOU ASKING US WHEN YOU'RE THE ONE WHO POSTED THE VIDEO!?
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It's his schtick. He is addicted to creating cheap gotcha situations. He already knew what the crowd was about but he preferred to wait until some people posted and now he can grin and say "See, they screamed at her just because she refused to raise her fist"
 
d4m10n said:
Have you thought about addressing the incident itself instead of performing Bulverism?
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I am addressing the incident. Some protesters were rude and had dumb ideas. How is this cancel culture? Nobody got cancelled.

You posted it in this thread, care to explain how it is relevant at all?
 
d4m10n said:
Sure thing. Can you tell what demands are being made here, and how those demands are being enforced?
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No. I see people shouting, and nothing of any substance happening. I don't understand how this video is at all newsworthy and sure would love an explanation for why it's relevant to this thread, or to anything at all.
 
d4m10n said:
I think this here is an excellent example of going ad hominem instead of addressing the social phenomenon of mob justice.
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I'm genuinely slightly confused (to be fair it's been a lifelong affliction), I thought "cancel culture" was meant to be something new, that it was distinct from what people could and did do in the past? (The "past" usually meaning pre-internet or pre-mass social media.)
 
Darat said:
I'm genuinely slightly confused (to be fair it's been a lifelong affliction), I thought "cancel culture" was meant to be something new, that it was distinct from what people could and did do in the past? (The "past" usually meaning pre-internet or pre-mass social media.)
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My understanding is that cancel culture was a specific phenomena of internet mobs getting people doxxed and fired or otherwise ostracized for perceived breaches of social norms.

None of those things have happened here, I honestly don't see the connection.
 
Darat said:
I'm genuinely slightly confused (to be fair it's been a lifelong affliction), I thought "cancel culture" was meant to be something new, that it was distinct from what people could and did do in the past? (The "past" usually meaning pre-internet or pre-mass social media.)
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I'd say the online virality is the only part that is new here.

Mob justice and struggle sessions performative public humiliation are as old as humanity, I would imagine.

SuburbanTurkey said:
None of those things have happened here, I honestly don't see the connection.
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That's odd, since it's fairly bleeding obvious.
 
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