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Re:Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times by mrjangles on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @06:45PM (#30772587)
Yeah that's a good point. There is not a single person complaining about cancel culture today that wouldn't immediately join the snarling mob and try to cancel someone that argued something like "we should rape 1 year olds" or something like that, for example.

If we kept the arguments to "It is wrong to hate people just for holding the same opinion as 50% of the population", or "Hating someone for making a joke is wrong", it would make a lot more sense.

You know, the more I think about it, the fact that there are a large body of people who literally hate and want to destroy the lives of half the people living in the western world, simply because of their opinions about life, really rubs in how psychotically dangerous they are. It is amazing they are allowed to get away with their behavior. The reason is that people really are instinctively terrified of a ravenous mob (and rightly so), so they keep quite, but, in the age of the internet, there is less to fear from these mobs.

Re:Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times by tptacek on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @06:57PM (#30772678)
I don't think "speech without social repercussions should be safe from approbation as long as it's popular speech" is a good norm either.
Re:Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times by rootusrootus on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:31PM (#30772982)
> there are a large body of people who literally hate and want to destroy the lives of half the people

The worst part, of course, is that 'large body' is pretty close to 100%. It's mutually assured destruction, and working.