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by DanBC 2171 days ago
> Cancel culture is a modern day equivalent of 17th century mob with pitchforks passing judgment based on rumour and questionable evidence.

When the first villager picks up their pitch-fork and starts waving it it's cancel culture that tells them to dump the pitchfork and go home.

It's weird that when someone says hateful shit, driving people off a platform, and other people say "hey, don't do that" it's the later group that gets accused of cancel culture.

And that first group of hateful bigots want a one way freedom of speech: "I get to say whatever stupid hateful shit I like because freedom of speech, but you don't get to use that same freedom of speech to debunk my bullshit because CANCEL CULTURE you triggered snowflakes".

1 comments

Hate is a way of acting toward other people. It doesn't have a particular creed or political party or belief. Fighting hate with hate makes the whole world cancelled.
How is disagreeing with another’s point of view hate?

I think you are using hate too liberally.