[ElectricSpoon]

On the flip side of cancellation, I wonder how much people cancelling are hurting themselves by sticking to retaliation.

Go read about the psychology of forgiveness. There are some pros to "letting it go", when appropriate.

[archagon]

Well, maybe women who’ve been sexually harassed for most of their lives, and who couldn’t even feel safe at their own community events, were fed up with “letting it go.”

(Caveat: I have no idea what happened with this particular person.)

[bobsmooth]

People making judgements without having all the facts is the main issue here.

[archagon]

I think the main issue is people being fed up with society treating them like crap and taking advantage of an opportunity to do something about it.

[lazide]

And where ‘something about it’ is treating someone else like crap who probably didn’t deserve it?

[archagon]

I mean, that’s not great. But saying “they shouldn’t do that” accomplishes nothing. People will wield their power to cancel whether you like it or not. Want it to end? Work towards making people feel like they can actually seek justice whenever they are wronged.

Ultimately, I admit that I'm much more troubled by women routinely getting threatened and harassed for daring to speak up against their assailants than the occasional undeserving victim of cancel culture. One problem is just orders of magnitude more common than the other.

[lazide]

What will really happen is people will just tune out all women due to this, because it’s more convenient. It’s not like they get paid to pay attention eh?

And the pendulum swings.

In office environments anyway, the false accusations I’ve seen were easily an order of magnitude more common than actual issues. Transparently so.

When investigating, I’ve had multiple women flat out admit they were making the accusations to get retribution or leverage to get the accused party to go back to them.