It's being widely claimed that "cancel culture" is some kind of new and different phenomenon; it hardly takes much historical knowledge to know it's not. Examples abound, in nature, antiquity (go tell Socrates about being "canceled"), etc.
I don’t the claim is that cancel culture is new, but the rate and method is new. It happens more frequently for different topics.
That’s what I think of when I hear “cancel culture.” When you present an example from the 18th century, that’s not a very useful rebuttal. It seems like you either don’t understand, are deflecting, or using a “but all lives matter” argument.
The woman in question was a VP of communications who tweeted the following:
>Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!
It is not hard to see why a company would fire a VP of communications who tweeted this. In general, you have to be careful about what you do and say in public when you have a senior position within a company. This is nothing new.
In the bad old days, people used to get fired when their employer found out that they were having a gay affair, or had a mixed race child. Now people are more likely to get fired for saying or doing racist or homophobic things. To me this seems like progress.
As a conservative I’m not even a big believer in the perfectability of man. I just find it funny that people are copping to being the latest generation of John Ashcroft throwing curtains over naked statues.
Socrates wasn't cancelled. Insofar as we can trust Plato and Xenophon, we know who he was and the things he said. Athens may have executed him, but they didn't deplatform him.
> Socrates would be jealous.
I doubt that very much. Your examples are bad enough to be considered trolling.
Execution for pissing everyone off doesn’t count as cancellation?
We know who Alex Jones is. Louis CK is out there getting awards. If “we know who he was and the things he said” means you’re not canceled, we’re in very good shape.
> Athens may have executed him, but they didn't deplatform him.
You get what a hilariously scary and silly statement this is, right?
