I love that you didn't refute or deny any of the points I made. Actually, you provided me with yet another example of the behavior I was talking about.
Now if you would kindly keep your personal feelings out of the thread and stay on topic it would be ideal. Shanks x1000. Ta ta
See? More cancelling people for expressing opinions you find upsetting.
Also, the admonitions to stay on topic and not be personal is rich coming from the guy who chimed in to comment on the irony of the OP being banned, as though the reason he was banned had anything to do with cancel culture, right or left. I believe he was a dupe of somebody that was banned quite some time ago, IIRC.
Eck said:
sorry just had to quote this masterclass in irony from the pro-cancel culture permabanned guy - it's hilarious.
Wow, very on topic post! Also, it's funny that you complain about bullying a few posts later after writing this. (You also didn't seem to have an issue with bullying in the Gillette thread).
As for cancel culture, I don't particularly like it, but I also have issues with people who spend a lot of their time complaining about it, for the simple reason that they usually participate in it themselves. They simply cancel different things. The same people bitching about cancel culture cancelled Colin Kaepernick and the DIxie Chicks beforehand. They participate in the exact same behavior but somehow see it as not being the same behavior. Eck is providing an excellent example of what I'm talking about in this thread., which is why I felt mentioning his past behavior was relevant. He is an excellent example of why I have no patience for people complaining about cancel culture. 9 times out of 10, they are engaging in it themselves. I feel pointing out real life examples of the phenomenon of anti-cancel culture people engaging in cancel culture is extremely relevant to a discussion about cancel culture. People want to make "cancel culture" something that is the domain of just one side of the political spectrum, when nothing could be further from the truth. Cancel culture, rather than something that is exclusively the domain of lazy social media warriors who want to feel that they are fighting for social justice without getting off their ass, is rather a key element of contemporary political discourse in general. I believe it's a function of the culture wars that I am sick of, but it probably benefits the people in power for them to continue, which is why we keep having it. "Cancel culture" is a tactic of the culture wars employed by both sides, rather than a plot by globalist SJWS to destroy Western Civilization or whatever.
I think the right-wing denial of the existence of a right-wing cancel culture (often by the participants in it!) is another symptom of hyper-individualism and inability to grasp the concept of enlightened self-interest. Problems with the behavior of cancel culture (and I would actually say there are problems) are only problems if there's a chance it might affect them. I'd say the last sentence could sum up many aspects of the right-wing worldview, as well as why they are ill-equipped to actually solve anything, because they are prone to denying the existence of problems if it doesn't happen to personally inconvenience them. The recent right-wing attacks on the power of big business is a key example of this. People have been saying for years that big corporations have too much power and the response of the right was to shrug it off as not mattering because they deserve that power for being successful or something like that. Now that a corporation banned their God-Emperor from their platform, it's a massive crisis and we need to rein them in and omigod corporations are destroying American democracy. It makes it very hard for me to take anything they say seriously; the attitude that problems are not worth caring about unless they threaten to personally inconvenience them does not elicit much sympathy from me.
Anyway, I'm certain that Eck isn't going to have any response of value, let alone acknowledge that he engages in the same behavior he is denouncing, so now that I've made my point, I think I'll bow out. No need to repeat the Jaguar situation and waste people's time with endless back and forth sniping that have nothing to do with the actual issue.