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Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:59PM (#26041759)
Cancel culture is a cancer. Having everything documented online doesn’t help. People are supposed to learn from mistakes. They are supposed to make them because we all make mistakes.

There are mistakes that are considered table stakes for a role or a job and I’m for demotion of those individuals for it, but I don’t like seeing this cancel culture ruin lives.

It’s very high school and immature.

Re:Resignation by threatofrain on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:37PM (#26042103)
At the root of cancel culture is the freedom of association. Ultimately people either feel fraternity amongst each other or they don't.

I might argue that the freedom to not bake cakes or employ gay people with regards to religious rights is also part of the freedom of association. People either feel the love or they don't.

Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:47PM (#26042202)
Except for discrimination laws...
Re:Resignation by threatofrain on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:54PM (#26042266)
My latter example would be with regards to US Constitutional rights, and is possibly something that won't change in your lifetime. If anything, there was political energy to Constitutionally define heterosexual marriage as the only marriage, as it was a presidential get-out-to-vote issue for George Bush Jr.

But it does motivate discussion on fraternity. A discussion of the disarmament of relations must begin with the movement of not only words.

Re:Resignation by worik on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:02PM (#26042336)
Why is a "freedom" to not employ gay people a freedom? And why freedom of association?

Why another person chooses to do with their genitals is generally no not your business.

It is not a "freedom". It is prejudice and bigotry

Re:Resignation by threatofrain on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:11AM (#26045320)
It’s a freedom in the US because of the US Constitution and because of Supreme Court precedence. It’s reasonable to forecast that this will not change in your lifetime.

In that way I would argue these moral results, which speaks more loudly than moral actions or moral speech combined, hangs in the air like a moral odor as we discuss the disarmament of relations.

Re:Resignation by zepto on Saturday February 06, 2021 @11:10AM (#26047443)
I agree that it’s bigotry.

Do we think people should be free to be bigoted?

Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Saturday February 06, 2021 @01:55PM (#26048868)
People? sure. Businesses? Nope.

People can discriminate all they want to so long as they don’t infringe of the freedoms of others. Businesses should be required to not discriminate because it would impede the other party’s freedoms. I don’t have a choice for some things, I have to buy from a certain business. Should they discriminate against me I have no other option. If a person discriminated against me I can just punch them in the face (figuratively) and go elsewhere. Businesses should be required by law to abide by EEO/EOE laws for their customers as well as for their employees.

Re:Resignation by zepto on Saturday February 06, 2021 @02:46PM (#26049270)
> “Businesses should be required to not discriminate because it would impede the other party’s freedoms.“

Being forced to do work they don’t want to do would impede the first party’s freedoms.

Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Saturday February 06, 2021 @03:59PM (#26049884)
No one is forcing anyone to do work. If the business asks them to do something that goes against their personal freedoms they are free to leave.
Re:Resignation by zepto on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:45PM (#26050785)
This makes no sense in light of what you said earlier:

If you claim this:

“I don’t have a choice for some things, I have to buy from a certain business.”

Then you claim that people can simply leave a job.

What if they also have no choice and have to work at a certain business?

Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:18PM (#26042879)
I agree. Businesses shouldn’t be allowed bigoted freedoms.
Re:Resignation by zepto on Saturday February 06, 2021 @11:10AM (#26047447)
Who defines what counts as bigoted?
Re:Resignation by throwmylifawy on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:39AM (#26054614)
We do as a collective culture! Bigotry is subjective and changes with time. There is never going to be an ironclad list of protected classes that are going to remain fixed in time. That is because discrimination and what society feels counts as discrimination changes over time.
Re:Resignation by zepto on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:15PM (#26056826)
> We do as a collective culture

By what process? The list may not be ironclad, but presumably someone has to actually make a list.

Or are you saying we don’t need a list?

Re:Resignation by worik on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:56PM (#26068524)
There are no clear boundaries, for any law. Almost. Which is why laws need courts.
Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Saturday February 06, 2021 @01:58PM (#26048896)
Not refusing service based on sex/age/race/sexual orientation/religion is a good start. It’s also good for business.

If a patron of a business comes to do business, that business should welcome the business and ignore the personal biases and their own bigoted beliefs.

Re:Resignation by zepto on Saturday February 06, 2021 @02:55PM (#26049362)
You didn’t answer my question. I asked who gets to define what counts as bigoted, not what you count as bigoted.
Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:08PM (#26049954)
Bigotry is already defined: Obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Criteria in this case being the same equal opportunity laws for employment should be applied towards the front of house.

Same folks who determine EOE law violations, same folks who determine discrimination violations.

Re:Resignation by zepto on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:42PM (#26050759)
> “Obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction”

This is a completely subjective criteria.

So now you have an appointed group who gets to force people to do work, under penalty of law.

That seems like a bad idea.

I am against bigotry.

I question the use of force as a way to alleviate it.

Re:Resignation by jacques_chester on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:05PM (#26041808)
I've no idea how you decided this was "cancel culture". It's a garden-variety cockup.

Mistakes are not binary, some of them are worse than others.

Messing up the spelling of someone's name is common and a subject of regular jest amongst journalists.

Slightly misquoting someone might be subject to some kind of internal discipline, it will at least lead to a correction being published.

Publishing mostly fiction without the exercise of fact-checking is much less forgivable in a news organisation. Willing credulity is not the standard journalists should be held to.

Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:12PM (#26041881)
A Twitter campaign sounds like cancel culture. There are avenues to address misbehavior. There are ways to report inaccuracies. I’m not defending the man’s mistakes or his podcast. Like I said, there are some things that are table stakes, telling the truth at a news org should definitely be one.

His story isn’t unique though about how social media descends on an individual to ruin their lives. He mentioned how the campaign made its way into the NYT via Twitter. All I’m saying is that we are all human, we all make mistakes, we should all be given an opportunity to learn from and grow from those mistakes.

Does he need to be publicly visible in NYT’s, probably not considering the history.

Could he produce shows where he’s not asked to determine the truth but just report it, possibly.

There are levels to mistakes, I hear you, and to make a public post about it on his blog definitively shows he doesn’t exactly know why this is happening to him or he wants to make a big grand stand about it.

Doesn’t matter. My statement still stands. People make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes have nothing to do with their jobs and yet, canceled...

Re:Resignation by omgwtfbyobbq on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:18PM (#26042443)
What's the difference between a cancel culture Twitter campaign and other Twitter campaigns?
Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:55PM (#26042705)
I donate money to other Twitter campaigns
Re:Resignation by irateswami on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:09PM (#26041850)
Agreed, "journalists" should be held to a high standard for the information they disseminate. Have we all forgotten "A Rape on Campus" and the fallout for Rolling Stone?
Re:Resignation by sadgrip on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:14PM (#26041903)
Did you read the article by chance? The author wasn't "cancelled" on account of the misreporting. That was just what put a spotlight on him leading to cancelling him for unrelated actions.
Re:Resignation by xupybd on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:07PM (#26041833)
Was he fired for his bad journalism or for his past misconduct?

I couldn't tell from the article.

Re:Resignation by katbyte on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:11PM (#26041865)
He resigned do to social media backlash it appears
Re:Resignation by ng12 on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:09PM (#26041847)
Cancel culture is what happened after the revelations about the podcast. Some people got angry they felt he wasn't punished enough and turned to cancel culture to punish him instead.
Re:Resignation by free_rms on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:20PM (#26041952)
It's concerning that that's the lever, though.

Break every rule of your profession and publish a bunch of BS? We'll give you another chance. Gave an inappropriate backrub 10 years ago? You're out!

He should have been fired for Caliphate and expressly for Caliphate.

Re:Resignation by ogre_codes on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:39PM (#26042118)
Look at the title here.

Look at the author of this piece.

Do you think a journalist who has no journalistic integrity is going to admit he got fired because he has no journalistic integrity?

Easier to get a sympathy by claiming it was about back rubs.

Re:Resignation by free_rms on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:01PM (#26042323)
Absolutely right, and I should have written that :)

That said, seems like the easier narrative for the NYT to go with as well -- they don't have to own up to their editorial failures up the chain that way.

Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:53PM (#26042260)
agreed
Re:Resignation by netrus on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:29PM (#26042025)
People learn from mistakes when there are consequences. You are witnessing consequences. There are far more, specific stories of misconduct on Twitter than those acknowledged in this article. If they are untrue, why not specifically say so?

Andy Mills is not going to prison. Being called out publically for toxic behavior towards colleagues is not exactly a ruined life. He will be fine (just not as fine as when peers did not speak up).

Also "we all make mistakes". We are talking about an adult, who got a grown-up's salary, some mistakes are worse than others, and you should not make the same mistake again and again and again. Consequences help with that.

Re:Resignation by ng12 on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:43PM (#26042159)
> People learn from mistakes when there are consequences

Oh please. If cancel culture were about learning from your mistakes we wouldn't haunt people for things they did decades ago.

Re:Resignation by netrus on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:49AM (#26045464)
It's possible to learn from other people's mistakes as well, I do believe that is happening at the moment.

But anyway: if there are no negative consequences, I seriously doubt the perpetrator will even consider their action a mistake.

Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:46PM (#26042180)
Kevin Spacey comes to mind. There is a thing called statute of limitations for things. Kevin Spacey probably shouldn't have sexually assaulted boys. Because the internet archives everything, no one looks at the date and think how long ago was this?
Re:Resignation by atdrummond on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:18PM (#26042452)
Unfortunately, he was acting that way well into the 2010s; I had a number of friends in the London theatre scene and it was well known that a certain type of person (young, fit males) should avoid spending time with him alone.
Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:54PM (#26042688)
I only heard about the ones from the 1990s. Thanks for adding context. He’s still canceled yet does a creepy Christmas vid considering the history. I’m not defending him at all. More attacking the process of which those allegations were brought to light.
Re:Resignation by bradhe on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:59PM (#26042736)
Are you equating this dude to Kevin Spacey?
Re:Resignation by gabereiser on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:13PM (#26042841)
Nope
Re:Resignation by chris_wot on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:28PM (#26043581)
This didn’t happen decades ago.