Re:What it's like to be cancelled
by gambiting on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:04PM
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He was cancelled because he wrote a public apology on Twitter and that's how people found out about him. Twitter is completely to blame here - maybe along with being so naive to think that writing an apology on Twitter is a good idea.
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Re:What it's like to be cancelled
by lightgreen on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:35PM
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> Twitter is completely to blame here
Don't blame knives for killing people, blame people who kill people.
I think the issue here is that Twitter came too quickly into our lives, and people did not have time adapt to the new reality.
Three hundreds years ago people would happily join a mob on a square trying to burn a woman because she is a witch or a traitor or unfaithful. Today people would just tell them they are coo coo and continue with their business.
After a couple of years people will learn to react to Twitter cancelling mob the same.
Sorry I should have said "Twitter culture" not Twitter. And I do hope you are right about it eventually fading away.
Re:What it's like to be cancelled
by chickenpotpie on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:11PM
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I think there’s a bit of selection bias here. There’s no evidence he wouldn’t have been fired for his actions if he didn’t publicly apologize. Many people are fired for the same actions, we just don’t hear about it.