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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by kennywinker on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:12PM (#26309157)
You gave five examples of state violence to maintain existing social order. “Cancel culture” is not being done by the state.

I agree, ideas can cause upheaval, and there will be resistance to those ideas. But have you considered that your resistance to the idea of holding people to account for their actions and words might be a resistance to a social change?

I’ve heard a lot about cancel culture, but most of it has been rich successful people being deprived of continuing to be successful for something they have said or done that was actually harmful. The few examples of miscarriages of justice have not amounted to much other than a few lost sales and some clapbacks on social media. It feels like we’re doing an actually pretty good job at judging when to all-out-destroy someone (harvey weinstein) and when to just be critical (almost everyone else)

Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by loveistheanswer on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:56PM (#26318934)
>You gave five examples of state violence to maintain existing social order. “Cancel culture” is not being done by the state.

Isnt "the state", made up of people? To the person getting punished, why would they care who it is doing the punishing when the end result is the same?