| How do you think people in smaller communities work? Why do you think the town gossip is well known, and how social boycotts worked before? Analogy: I’m making the point that if you leave these logs in the river, eventually they will hit this point, and they will create a log jam. You can argue that this is or is not the definition of log jam, which is an issue of definitions. Cancel culture is how the average person was told for decades to wield power. Capitalism would fix it. Finally, people started doing precisely that, and that was the start of cancel culture. In your first example, isn’t this how people get into trouble in small communities, or villages? You were immune to this in bigger cities because you didnt have smaller communities. Your second example is entirely dependent on people not liking Republicans. If people are OK with republicans that email dies in shame and embarrassment. If you are a repub, in a place where people are highly antagonistic to republicans, then your reputation is already at risk! The other person broke your trust, you lost your anonymity. Same if you changed switched the party names. > Such hate campaigns only creates conflict, i The conflict is already there man. Republican strategy since the 60s has been high partisanship, and a full on media and information war. It’s been take no prisoners for a long time. Even if you tried to make peace, and have reasoned discussion, the deeper information tides wash out those efforts with the evening news. This is publicly stated by repub strategists. Hell Bannon talked about flooding the zone in the past few months! The left is CATCHING UP to the right, and still has a way to go before it can match the alt right pound for pound in political power. |