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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by swayvil on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:27PM (#26309937)
Cancel culture used to be just a bear in woods. Scary but not super scary.

Now it's Godzilla stomping through Seattle.

It is magnified vastly by social media. That makes a big difference.

And 10x that power when the engines of social media are in the hands of the cancellers, as appears to be the case.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by taurath on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:18PM (#26310765)
Is it? Or are we all working off of anecdotes here. Do you have data to back that up?

Further - it was pretty scary getting cancelled by my parents and community when I came out. I’m glad it wasn’t scary for you.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by swayvil on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:28PM (#26311590)
Yes. It was scary. And now it is much more scary.

The present, much greater, scariness in no way diminishes the prior scariness.

And it was, and is, scary for many many more than just the "gays". Get some perspective here.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by taurath on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:40PM (#26311956)
Can you quantify how or why it’s worse? It seems like it could also just seem like it’s “worse” to you since it is something that could actually effect you.
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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by UncleMeat on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:16PM (#26310337)
It was just never scary to social conservatives. Gay people got "cancelled" so hard they were thrown in jail and disowned from their families.
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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by taurath on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:22PM (#26310787)
And laughed as 1/15 or more of a generation died from AIDS. The harm caused by the extreme right is astounding if you’re in one of the targeted groups. Someone being fired for bigoted comments when they work with minorities isn’t even in the same ballpark. And then they put up a gofundme and buy a house or get a conservative media deal.
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