Posted on 04/27/2021 12:10:24 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
We all have bad moments. Plenty of us also have moments that just look bad when taken out of context. These instances used to break the surface of public attention only briefly, if at all. When they lingered, they did so only as painful personal memories. But over the past decade, all that has changed. “Cancellation” has become a regular occurrence, and the threat of it hangs over us all. High-quality video cameras are everywhere, and anything can be recorded. Thanks to social media, even the most trivial interaction can be captured and broadcast to the world.
So you lose your temper in traffic, or at the store. You make a tasteless joke, you say something intemperate, you behave badly in a relationship—and suddenly these unpleasant social missteps are memorialized. They become part of the historical record. The dumbest and most inane fragmentary gestures can now destroy lives...
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no dissent. resistance is futile.
see you in the breadline.
>> “Cancellation” has become a regular occurrence
America’s CEOs are the most malicious perpetrators
That's right. You mess with the tiger you get the horns.
Errr, or something like that.
In Soviet union, those were called Black Sheep and assigned job digging ditches in Siberia. Get ready.
However;
Revolution eventually eats its children.
You won’t fool the Children of the Revolution!
The cancelled should network. Their numbers are growing everyday.
It’s real irony to see people who feel they’ve transcended religion displaying so many “burn the heretic!” moments. You’d think we’d time traveled back into Torquemada’s Spain or Hester Prynne’s New England.
Oh, one thing I am totally sure of, they will eventually eat each other. It happened all the time.
As often as there were shortages of toilet paper!
I cancelled myself from the world when I retired in 2003. Basically, I don’t like people, and only tolerate them when I have to. Thankfully being old means most of my interactions with outsiders takes place at my doctors’ offices, and many of those I only see once a year. I can count the number of close friends on one hand, and other than my two sons, and one niece, that’s my family. The rest are all dead.
inane fragmentary gestures can now destroy lives...
Only if you let it! I mean how weak and isolated are you to let SM dictate your life.
I’m sure glad there weren’t cell-phone video cameras and the internet when I was young.
See you in the camps...
Can’t “cancel” me ... I’ve already been discarded by Hollywood and the federal government.
I don’t use any other online anything except YouTube, and I have become an observer, more than a creator in recent times.
Who am I? How did “they” do it? I am a disabled Vietnam veteran, that’s how. I’ve been spat on by mothers with their child in hand, when i came through the airport in San Francisco. I had a mother send her child over to kick me in the shin. For years, Hollywood has cast me and my brothers as mental cases, drunks, druggies, and misfits. We were labeled by employment agencies as possible non-fits for jobs. A Vietnam veteran trying to go to college earned all the disrespect of the professors, They called me a “babykiller”. Defense contractors hired us, because the federal government gave them a tax break in doing such.
Cancel me? No, I canceled them, by their own words and deeds.
Best to make sure you have a gun before being cancelled.
Use their own rules against them.
#CancelTheCancelCulture
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