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OhhhJa posted...

Can you really not distinguish between giant tech corporations cooperating with each other and governments to demometize/silence people and an individual making a choice not to buy something?

It's pretty obvious that they're incapable of understanding the difference. They're also incapable of understanding that everybody who disagrees with their idiocy isn't a Republican, but that's kinda what happens when people are far enough to the left that they can barely see the field any more so everybody looks the same.

adjl posted...

Not really. It's an example of consumers voting with their wallets. Views and actions that are unpopular enough to impact the bottom line are stopped, ones that aren't unpopular enough to have an appreciable impact are allowed to continue.

Really, "cancel culture" is just the "if you don't like it, don't buy it!" strategy capitalists like touting being employed on a large enough scale to actually change something. The only difference between it and smaller-scale applications of that strategy is that it's working, which is pissing off conservatives because they convinced themselves that the viewpoints in question were too unpopular to ever reach such a point.

Except it's really not. Cancel Culture is, at the very least, a far more extreme version of a organized protest and boycott (overlooking that most of the cancelers never used the products in question nor would they ever use the products in question -- instead they move from protest to protest). If you're not buying a product in the first place but angrily insisting something not be done while posting personal details about employees, etc, and inviting people to attack them and their families, you're not "voting with your wallet" because your wallet never comes into play. "Voting with your wallet" is a term associated with the most passive form of a personal boycott. It generally doesn't even rise to the level of a protest.

Not to mention that the phrase "voting with your wallet" generally always referred to things associated with the company's business practices, not disagreements with stances held by employees. Cancel Culture is unique in the regard that it tolerates no dissent of any kind and acts as a kind of universal gatekeeping movement. Broadly speaking, it's unlike anything that came before it, considering that they lacked the organization, consistent effort, clout, and had limits to what they were willing to do. Many people involved in Cancel Culture have no moral qualms at all, with some going so far as to dox and harass the preteen children of people they dislike.

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