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by theredlion 2130 days ago
It is very much NOT limited to public figures and is pervasive in large companies. Individuals get effectively blackballed because of disagreeing with the mob
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> It is very much NOT limited to public figures and is pervasive in large companies.

That is not cancel culture. That is something else. Cancel culture, by definition, requires something that can be cancelled. Equivocating the two issues is an attempt to make public figures, organisations, etc less accountable.

Whelp... Go ahead and check your definitions, because it absolutely applies to individuals in a private space