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Cancel culture IRL

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people don’t want to buy books that contain content they don’t like. Cancelled again.
 
Is there really a moral argument to be had here? Seems like the author did nothing wrong until she bowed to the mob.
 
d4m10n said:
Can't they just use haggis?
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Maybe they have the petition reads "many of the foods that he presents to his guests are actually from different Asian cultures"

Blood pudding, liver, boiled lard, cauliflower, I don't know, what other gross and disgusting things do white people eat ?
 
d4m10n said:
Is there really a moral argument to be had here? Seems like the author did nothing wrong until she bowed to the mob.
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Mob? I saw two tweets. And they weren’t angry death threats, just a calm explanation about what they thought. I can’t even see how sending an author a criticism of their work and their agreement is a bad cancellation. It’s comical to me.

I think the moral argument is that anything can be cancel culture if you want it to be. If you convince someone to change using words, that’s cancelled.
 
dirtywick said:
I saw two tweets.
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"Hilderbrand responded to numerous complaints by telling readers she had sent them private messages..."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw...frank-reference-in-new-hilderbrand-novel.html

Some of the tweets have since been deleted (such as the one misspelling anti-Semitic) but I cannot vouch for the Instagram posts one way or another.

Come to think of it, though, I'm not sure if the size of the mob matters so much as the capitulation thereto.
 
It should matter. It should also matter if the complaints are reasonable and whether or not they were coercive in nature. Right now this appears to be a few reasonable and calm complaints to an author that agreed and responded to them. We can call that cancel culture I suppose, but I would also call that a dialogue. Is being calming criticized a threat to creative freedom? I don’t think so.
 
Not sure of the political leanings of the newspaper that reported this, but the story is going all over the right wing blogosphere at the moment...


A high-ranking Santa Barbara Community College administrator, Joyce Coleman, was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation of allegations she made remarks offensive to members of the Asian-American Pacific Islander community and its supporters on campus.


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The complaint alleges Coleman, who is Black, reportedly greeted news of the new group’s formation with the words, “About time,” and then described having visited an internment camp for Japanese and Japanese American people during World War II and wondering why the prisoners there “did not just leave,” given how small the fence was. By contrast, Coleman allegedly noted, Black American slaves formed the Underground Railroad and actively resisted.
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https://www.independent.com/2021/04...dmin-put-on-leave-for-controversial-comments/
 
By contrast, Coleman allegedly noted, Black American slaves formed the Underground Railroad and actively resisted.
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Sure, eventually. Admistrative leave though?

Some campus faculty and staff took offense to what they described as “victim blaming,” charging that she inflicted “great harm” by her words and actions.
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Ya sure she did.
 
I'm pretty sure the Underground Railroad was formed by white abolitionists. How would black slaves set up a series of safe houses and sympathetic couriers?

I'm sure that as the movement gained traction, some emancipated blacks joined in and contributed to the Railroad. But formed it to begin with?

Same with the Japanese-Americans. Say they climbed the fence at Manzanar. Where would they go? It's out in the middle of nowhere, central California. They'd walk for days and fetch up, starving and dehydrated, in some community where they had no friends or known sympathizers. Where they'd stand out like sore thumbs. Where they'd be one phone call away from a fate worse than internment.

What exactly were they supposed to set up? A secret network of Japanese fugitives from the US government? Exactly the wartime threat the government was using as a justification in the first place?

This woman sounds like a complete ******* idiot. Administrative leave is the least that could be done. I'd get her as far from my institute of higher learning as I possibly could.
 
d4m10n said:
Another noteworthy cancellation brought to us by another rage mob.

https://twitter.com/SLOTribune/status/1401894341807837185

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/editorials/article251910898.html
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I suppose it's cancel culture. It's conservatives and they went old school using phones. Probably wall mounted phones with a rotary dial mounted on the wall in the kitchen with an extra long twisty cord so you could stretch it into the living room and watch reruns of HeeHaw while talking to aunt Madge about the critical race theory they're ramming down kid's throats in schools these days.

He's one cool cucumber that Tommy Gong.
 
Stout said:
Get in on the latest cancellation trend.

Remove "Spill Your Guts" Segment on The Late Late Show with James Corden

Because chicken feet aren't wildly hilarious. Oh wait, yes they are :) Oh no, thinking they are is contributing to anti-Asian hate crimes.

I wonder if they ever served dog meat on that show.

How about shark fin soup ?

Dog meat and shark fin soup "really disgusting," and "horrific." or do we keep our pasty white mouths shut about it for fear of causing offence.
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I'm only horrified by dog meat based on how it was slaughtered. But shark slaughtering is almost guaranteed to be cruel.
 
d4m10n said:
Another noteworthy cancellation brought to us by another rage mob.

https://twitter.com/SLOTribune/status/1401894341807837185

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/editorials/article251910898.html
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The newspaper that wrote this editorial also says the election wasn't stolen. Can you say biased? Trump would have easily carried California.

I love how this "cancelation" is that he took some other overpaid government job. Back when America was great, the townspeople would have done something else.
 
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