[jimbob45]

Individuals get canceled when their support dries up from those would previously have offered them funding and employment. How then does one go about avoiding cancel culture?

Simple. You just avoid cancel culture. Anyone who claims to support BLM or ActBlue or any liberal politician who has support cancel culture in the past should be avoided with extreme prejudice. These organizations actively fight free speech and routinely bully others into silence. If you want to avoid getting canceled, all you have to do is cancel them back. Stop listening and supporting anyone who would wantonly wield their influence to shut down others. Corporations exist to perform jobs. They should not have consciences or wield power - those roles are what we invented government for.

[jonathanlb]

> You just avoid cancel culture. Anyone who claims to support BLM or ActBlue or any liberal politician [...] should be avoided with extreme prejudice.

So, to avoid cancel culture, you should cancel others?

[jimbob45]

No, not others. Just those who would themselves cancel. After all, how did we solve McCarthy if not by removing him from power?

[adolph]

With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, and following the suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester C. Hunt that same year, McCarthy's support and popularity faded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

According to the theory, when articulating preferences individuals frequently tailor their choices to what appears socially acceptable. In other words, they convey preferences that differ from what they genuinely want. Kuran calls the resulting misrepresentation "preference falsification".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification

Now this is a system where if one of us decides for whatever reason that we’re going to call a spade a spade and say this system doesn’t work, I don’t like it, I go out in the street and I start demonstrating — a lot of other people are going to follow. So what’s happened is ultimately, when some demonstrations began, and it happened to be the demonstration started in East East Germany, these demonstrations started growing every week, more and more people found in themselves the courage to say what they believed and to come out against the regime.

https://moses.land/eric-weinstein-and-timur-kuran-on-the-por...

[jimbob45]

I certainly agree that a high- profile suicide or equally heinous act would accelerate cancel culture into its demise but surely waiting for catastrophic disaster like that is not a realistic strategy.

[adolph]

The moment comes from a mortal sacrifice more often is desirable for certain. Examples of the top of my head are Thích Quảng Đức [0], and Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi [1].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi

2.