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You have merely cherry-picked some examples of cancel culture where people were fired for merely trivial things.

> If Musk has said something like "employers shouldn't fire employees on the basis of their speech" (and he may have done, I really don't know), then he's probably being hypocritical, but not on the basis of cancel culture.

My comment was necessarily about Musk himself, but also about his defenders. Thus, it doesn't matter much whether Musk himself is a hypocrite based on any of his own statements, but rather whether his supporters (for lack of a better term) are hypocrites based on positions they have previously staked out.

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> You have merely cherry-picked some examples of cancel culture where people were fired for merely trivial things.

I was explicitly noting that many cases of cancellation are unjust. Giving examples is appropriate.

> rather whether his supporters (for lack of a better term) are hypocrites based on positions they have previously staked out.

I’m sure some are. Any person with a large following will have many people who are hypocrites. A huge swath of the general population is hypocritical, so I would expect some hypocrites among Musk’s followers.

I don’t know how you could credibly argue that his supporters in general are hypocritical in a way which is independent from whether or not he is.