Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing cancel culture

Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by africanboy on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:48PM (#25597540)

I come from the country that put Galileo's books on the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum".

I don't believe canceling culture is culture, even when the culture being canceled is bad.

It's much better to make them illegal, like we did in Italy with facism and nazism, than to "cancel" them.

They are still available as a subject of study, they haven't been cancelled, they have been found inappropriate and as such only a minority still believes that they've been made illegal in absence of good motivations, because anybody can check what are the reasons why it happened.

But the majority of people that were fascist before the war ended in Italy haven't suffered discrimination for being wrong, after it was obvious they were.

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Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by cubano on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:07PM (#25597737)

I really like this comment because your calling this exactly what it is...fascism.

Cancel culture should be perhaps be renamed cancer culture, because history has shown that these things never end well.

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Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by pjc50 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:50PM (#25598103)

I think you've misread it, given that he's literally supporting the banning of certain political views by law!

(I happen to agree with the bans on Nazi symbology, but that has actual force of law and far more consequences than merely complaints on twitter)

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