10-30-2022, 09:34 PM
(10-30-2022, 03:09 AM)hollodero Wrote: Yep. I'm firnly on the left ideologically, but I would have liked to make the same point (maybe sans the Joy Reid part, but I assume it's a legit one). Cancel culture is a real nuisance and far from just made up, and should SSF ever run out of examples, I'd gladly add a hundred more.
(Of course conservative victimhood is also a thing.)
Cancel culture is a direct result of the fact that entities on both ends of the political spectrum have either consciously or unintentionally come to the same sad conclusion. They realize full well that there are way more votes and clicks in demonizing ideological rivals than in actual ideas, of which they have practically none of value.
If you're an unlikable, unrelatable asshole you still have to get some people to get on board if you want power. The only way to do that is to make the opposition look even worse.
