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Cont: Cancel culture IRL Part 2

d4m10n said:
Should we include online shaming campaigns among workplace issues?
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Is that where cancel culture now lies for you? An employee has to keep their mouth shut about their workplace conditions or else they're doing a cancel culture? Toe the corporate line or you're a woke scold.

I wonder how many more deviations on this theme is required before someone bringing a civil rights lawsuit against their employer is doing cancel culture. We're certainly unmoored from any reasonable standard at this point anyway, just a bit of drifting further into absurdity and we're there.
 
d4m10n said:
Agreed. We might never know which sins Reply All committed, but surely they deserved their comeuppance.
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I don't that anyone here is taking that position. I think most of us take the position of "Some things happened and then some other things happened as result" and don't really care all that much past that point.

The only one staking out a definite position on this issue seems to be you, in your staunch belief that Reply All in fact did not deserve what happened to them. A position, of course, that you will do absolutely nothing to substantiate, per your usual M.O.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
An employee has to keep their mouth shut about their workplace conditions or else they're doing a cancel culture?
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Had the employee in question not performed a public woke scolding, the podcast in question would not have been cancelled. Hopefully they all find someplace else to do the podcasting thing going forward.

johnny karate said:
The only one staking out a definite position on this issue seems to be you, in your staunch belief that Reply All in fact did not deserve what happened to them.
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No one has pointed out anything that warranted cancellation of the entire project, so I'm inclined to say that we're dealing with a significant overreaction.
 
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d4m10n said:
No one has pointed out anything that warranted cancellation of the entire project, so I'm inclined to say that we're dealing with a significant overreaction.
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I'm not sure why you think you're entitled to have anything about what happened justified to your satisfaction.
 
johnny karate said:
I'm not sure why you think you're entitled to have anything about what happened justified to your satisfaction.
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Everyone is entitled to their own conclusions about how and why that formerly successful podcast was shut down; you are welcome to develop your own theory of the case.
 
d4m10n said:
Everyone is entitled to their own conclusions about how and why that formerly successful podcast was shut down; you are welcome to develop your own theory of the case.
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You can draw whatever misguided conclusions that you want. No one is saying otherwise.

What you're not entitled to is an explanation that meets your arbitrary standard of how you think these things should be handled.
 
d4m10n said:
Had the employee in question not performed a public woke scolding, the podcast in question would not have been cancelled. Hopefully they all find someplace else to do the podcasting thing going forward.

No one has pointed out anything that warranted cancellation of the entire project, so I'm inclined to say that we're dealing with a significant overreaction.
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Happy and healthy workplaces rarely blow up publicly.

You’re conviction that the only problem was the employee’s woke scolding is a bit weird. You have no inside knowledge and yet you are confident that everything was great except for that. Okay. I doubt you are right, but I don’t care enough to really think much more about it.
 
Dr. Keith said:
You’re conviction that the only problem was the employee’s woke scolding is a bit weird.
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No one said it was the "only problem," but the question remains:
They stepped down after a wave of Twitter outrage. Isn't that precisely what 'cancel culture' is all about?
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Obviously, yes. Once again, the wokescolds get their way and the world has become a bit poorer as a result.
 
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d4m10n said:
Obviously, yes. Once again, the wokescolds get their way and the world has become a bit poorer as a result.
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I was wondering what that sense of malaise was that I’d been experiencing recently, and now I know. There’s one less podcast in the world.

I’ll see you at the candle light vigil.
 
I’m trying to think of a whiter white person problem than “A podcast I like was cancelled” and all I can come up with is if Starbucks discontinued their pumpkin spice latte.

WHICH THE WOKE TWITTER MOB IS PROBABLY COMING FOR NEXT
 
I'm convinced. Everyone should be forced at gunpoint to watch this podcast so it doesn't get..... oh god I can't even say... CANCELELD!
 
d4m10n said:
Had the employee in question not performed a public woke scolding, the podcast in question would not have been cancelled. Hopefully they all find someplace else to do the podcasting thing going forward.

No one has pointed out anything that warranted cancellation of the entire project, so I'm inclined to say that we're dealing with a significant overreaction.
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And there we have it "Those entitled SJW black people, they're nothing but trouble!!!!"
 
Dr. Keith said:
This all sounded a bit familiar. Didn’t Bon Appetite have a similar problem with their famous Test Kitchen YouTube video creators? In fact it did, and that was covered by a podcast. Which podcast? Not really that important since it surely wouldn’t be the very one that just imploded for similar reasons. God, if only we could monetize irony.

https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/2021/3/30/where-are-they-now-the-bon-apptit-test-kitchen
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Man I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for that moment. I can imagine these people quietly simmering about the general situation indefinitely, but this level of blatant and acute hypocrisy was probably enough to get their blood in a rolling boil. Imagine the balls of these guys to run this series knowing what they knew about their own unsavory practices.

The time between the second episode and the announcement about the departures was only 13 days. Must have been rowdy as hell in that office, should have sold tickets.
 
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SuburbanTurkey said:
Man I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for that moment. I can imagine these people quietly simmering about the general situation indefinitely, but this level of blatant and acute hypocrisy was probably enough to get their blood in a rolling boil. Imagine the balls of these guys to run this series knowing what they knew about their own unsavory practices.

The time between the second episode and the announcement about the departures was only 13 days. Must have been rowdy as hell in that office, should have sold tickets.
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Apparently not. Apparently all was well until that one tweet muddied the waters.
 
Current victim of cancel culture is the Southern Baptist Convention, who is being unfairly harassed by woke scolds after they released a report that they systematically covered up sex abuse allegations.

Don't know why the public feels it's appropriate to cancel them over this. Internal systems dealt with the problem fine until all these woke scolds saying rape is bad whipped up the internet lynch mobs.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Current victim of cancel culture is the Southern Baptist Convention, who is being unfairly harassed by woke scolds after they released a report that they systematically covered up sex abuse allegations.

Don't know why the public feels it's appropriate to cancel them over this. Internal systems dealt with the problem fine until all these woke scolds saying rape is bad whipped up the internet lynch mobs.
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Probably some disgruntled woke scold intern who released that report.
 
Calls for personal accountability, as noted repeatedly, is not new.

Resistance to any notion of personal accountability and heaping scorn on anyone who expects consistency and fairness, on the other hand...

"Don't rock the boat" has become "don't point out that someone has already capsized the boat and we're all at risk of drowning."

Harmful behavior itself is nothing compared to the *gasp* pointing out that someone's behavior is causing harm.

This is plain as day emotional manipulation.
 
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