Someone on HN once linked this Twitter thread and I made a point of jotting it down.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sooppressed/status/12824046471609...

I feel a real urge to say, for the record, that I don’t consider myself strongly “anti-cancel culture” or whatever, just that I understand the skepticism towards it and think that it’s referring to something that exists and at the very least has amped up since the end of the Bush administration. Although, truth be told, I doubt that’d be enough if my turn comes, and maybe all that just proves the anti-CC people’s point.

Yeah, but huge grain of salt there. Several of references in that thread are being twisted out of proportion. Also, they couldn't be bothered to find single example where someone is being "canceled" or ridiculed for being too PC, which makes me think this is an axe-grind-with-the-left issue and less decrying the practice.

There are a plethora of examples. Republicans who disagree with Trump are getting labeled "RINO" and censured by their parties.

This is a good thread, thanks.

I'm reading through the articles now, and have concerns that the author is over editorializing at least some of them.

I know for a fact Kindness Yoga is doing fine, I walk past there daily.

The targets of cancel culture don't always get completely buried, just like attempts at murder don't always succeed. That doesn't mean it wasn't an attempted murder or an attempted cancelling.

Sure, but my point is that the thread author said:

> 2. A yoga studio that was so woke they had gender-neutral bathrooms and person-of-color yoga nights where “white friends and allies” were asked to “respectfully refrain from attending” has closed down due to racial accusations.

That was a lie. Kindness Yoga didn’t close down. So I’d advise others to take the thread author’s words with a grain of salt.

Calling it a lie might be a bit unfair.

The news article from June 29th it links to says that they'd be shutting down, and the tweet was less than two weeks on. I found another news story from July 10th [1] - two days before the tweet went out - repeating the intention to shut down permanently, and another from August [2] that affirms that a shutdown happened. So at the time the author of the thread was in good faith relaying the truth.

I can't find any news stories indicating that it reopened, so unless you expect the author to live in Denver or be following closely every single example he provides months after the fact, I don't think this is a reasonable criticism.

ETA: Actually, their social media appears dead since June; Yelp shows many locations closed, and the locations it doesn't show as closed have, uh, poems written in memory of them...so I'm wondering if it actually did shutdown and you're not just mistakenly thinking of/talking about a different yoga studio entirely.

[1] https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/07/10/denver-yoga-studio...

[2] https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/08/07/courageous-yoga-bi...

You make assertions which would require that the author was mistaken, while ungraciously and unfairly accusing them of lying. Posted elsewhere in this thread is evidence suggesting the possiblity that you may, in fact, have been mistaken. Can you provide evidence to the contrary?

You can schedule a class on their website *today*.

I'll grant that it's more likely a mistake than an outright lie.

I'd still recommend that you read what the thread author says with a grain of salt as they aren't corroborating the claims they're repeating.

If you dig into the sourcing if the Colorado Sun's article, it cites an Instagram post[1] as evidence the business is closing, but the post says no such thing.

[1]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBotnpslXVj/

> If you dig into the sourcing if the Colorado Sun's article, it cites an Instagram post[1] as evidence the business is closing, but the post says no such thing

In that post, they announced that they will be closing, with the proximal cause being a surge of cancelations immediately after the accusations. I cannot copy paste the text as its within the images.

Edit: "...I have decided to close Kindness Yoga." Previous slide uses vague, passive, avoidant language to reference the accusations.

Are you saying that because they are now open, they never closed down?

I’m skeptical. By that logic, isn’t any voice of disapproval an attempted cancelling?

Emmanuel Cafferty is one (extreme) example that springs to mind:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

Also any number of academics, who wouldn't normally be considered celebrities or politicians:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...

“So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” Jon Ronson