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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by pdpi on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @04:17AM (#26313406)
Because something bad has happened before, we should look at it happening now as part of an ongoing problem, instead of characterising it as new phenomenon.

I get your point, but if you tell me I did a bad thing, I can answer in one of two ways: “you did a bad thing too, so you have no right to criticise me”, or “you did a bad thing too, maybe we should have a frank conversation about why we both fell into the same trap”.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by leereeves on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @04:33AM (#26313488)
I don't think anyone's denying that the desire to cancel those who believe differently is an ongoing problem; in fact, that is implicitly acknowledged when recent actions are described as witch-hunts or McCarthyism. Those allusions to history are powerful precisely because this behavior isn't new.

And I'd love to see a frank conversation about how we can avoid falling into that trap, but such a discussion has to start by acknowledging that it is a trap; that is to say, that cancel culture is wrong.

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