Doesn't reject the fact that attempts were made to do so. The threat of cancellation is very real regardless [0], and not everyone is able to make it out unscathed like JK Rowling.
Boycott used to be a necessary and lauded aspect of American democracy and free markets.
Now it’s been relabeled “cancel culture” and the public are fascists for denying a person here and there oodles of figurative prestige.
A minority of elites sure have the masses convinced “canceling” a rich person is the true threat to democracy.
The end of a society is nigh when the elites are fighting to preserve their power to exploit the masses carte blanche. We grow their potatoes; not the other way around, and don’t you forget it!
JK Rowling was not cancelled in any way. Gawker Media however, was, by a deranged billionaire who abused the legal system to exact revenge on a gossip-oriented news site and its entire media conglomerate. "Cancel culture" to the degree that it exists as any kind of actual threat to free speech is squarely a right-wing endeavor.
peanutcrisis|3 years ago
[0] https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/eternally-radical-idea/pr...
yeahButt|3 years ago
Now it’s been relabeled “cancel culture” and the public are fascists for denying a person here and there oodles of figurative prestige.
A minority of elites sure have the masses convinced “canceling” a rich person is the true threat to democracy.
The end of a society is nigh when the elites are fighting to preserve their power to exploit the masses carte blanche. We grow their potatoes; not the other way around, and don’t you forget it!
zzzeek|3 years ago