Putting Yarvin in the same clause as Donglegate is a little gauche...

Yeah, Yarvin is a genuinely highly controversial figure who's one of the leaders in neo-monarchist and neo-reactionary philosophy. One could imagine there being controversies like this about him 20 years ago, before the current political climate. He knew what he was getting into.

The others are basically just people who were unfortunate enough to be saying the "wrong" thing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

His philosophy is crazy and most people consider it either laughable or offensive, but he was supposed to be giving technical talk about Urbit, so I don't see a reason why his philosophy should matter in that.

Just curious, are you set for life? If not, do you think you are risking your livelihood by leaving this comment?

My intuition is that Cancel Culture operates a lot like the Drug War. The vast majority of non-PC speech and illicit drug use skirts by the Eye of Sauron without getting caught. But every now and then some poor bastard has his life ruined because he's in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Saying that Cancel Culture doesn't do harm because people aren't afraid to wear a MAGA hat, is like saying the Drug War doesn't do harm because people aren't afraid to drop acid. Regardless of what percentage of people are caught, it's unjust to destroy someone's life because they put the wrong substance in their body or the wrong idea in their mind.

I was in no way suggesting that cancel culture isn't harmful.

He's probably hoping to remain anonymous...

>what can you do about it?

Never apologize.