A clip from “Cancel Culture is Bad News BRO” where “mob justice” is looked at as the result of institutionally-backed ideology. Watch the full doc here: …
Nino Brown was a concept in which Black America had no means of owning capital outside of drug dealing, aproduct of his own environment and the character inadvertently invented cancel culture so yes New Jack City is a cultural milestone
“Today’s world is neoliber—I mean complex. ‘Complex’.” I love this as well because this also really resonates with another/similar facet in the neoliberal, or even just liberal, sphere of bad logic arguments where you say something and they go “no its more complex” “you cant get the correct answer by generalizing” “its just not that simple” “but muh yelling class reductionism tho” it’s oddly familiar, because it sounds like a projection: to reduce the issue to “just being too difficult to do anything about” is a cope but one that comes from a very real and sincere form of fear. EDIT: sincere place of fear is the wording I wanted to use actually.
So allow transphobes to kill people by denying trans lives as a thing and spread their hateful rhetoric which literally kills? Let Nazis grow their numbers by letting them recruit online uninterrupted? great plan
people dont understand their collective power, or collective power in general, even if some of them claim to believe in systemic oppression, as left wing canceling is still done as individual people venting their feelings about individual bigots (there just happens to be a lot of those people having feelings all at once, but with no kind of organization, discipline, intent, or goal, making them easy for institutions to manipulate)
I don't know. I don't think it matters if I know. I keep on going back to a thing that happened in the early 1990's: I was wearing some hand me down Birkenstock sandals, and someone called me out for "supporting nazis" and I said that if the worst thing nazis did was make a jew's feet comfortable, I guess I was OK with nazis. Point isn't whether I was the hero or villain- I still don't know if the Birkenstock company are nazi or not- the point is that I don't know if the information is valid.
"Cancel Culture" is the commodification of public shaming for social capital. It has rebranded for the Social Media age. Our adoption of these platforms happened without a set of norms in place, so it is unsurprising the porting of public shaming occurred. The political nature of public shaming lends itself to the cut and thrust of the tribal nature of Neoliberalism. What I find frankly daft is the idea that one side tries to ascribe it as coming from the other. That is just the hijacking of our inherent tribal nature for scoring points. The misuse of power is inherent in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Power corrupts because hierarchy is the basis of domination and hegemony. It has no inherent "side". It is neither "Left" or "Right". It's just domination, and that is the enemy of everyone. So Puritans of all shades damage us. If things were straightforward and simple as these Puritans believe there would be no need to stifle expression or claim victimhood. Violence by word or act is corrosive, and nobody deserves violence done to them. Just disagree and move on.
I wonder if this was prompted by that stupid stuff that got that one actress fired. She was treated like she was Mel Gibson, when she was just misinformed and kind of dumb. If we want to toss everybody like that onto the trash heap, we're going to be very busy tossing out 40% of the country.
Cancel culture is a statist mechanism with its roots in medieval christianity, with its historical propensity for burning heretics and disbelievers at the stake, often for what simply started as a disagreement with the totality of the clergy, ended in the reductionist conclusion of an insult against a higher power, one worthy of a populist canceling by public execution….
My problem with cancel culture is we call a lot of stuff 'being cancelled' that's actually just verbal and emotional abuse. It's the same problem I have with the word bullying. Call a spade a spade, call abuse abuse. Why do we sugar coat this stuff?
Do you have take on Tom Nicholas's take?
Nino Brown was a concept in which Black America had no means of owning capital outside of drug dealing, aproduct of his own environment and the character inadvertently invented cancel culture so yes New Jack City is a cultural milestone
“Today’s world is neoliber—I mean complex. ‘Complex’.” I love this as well because this also really resonates with another/similar facet in the neoliberal, or even just liberal, sphere of bad logic arguments where you say something and they go “no its more complex” “you cant get the correct answer by generalizing” “its just not that simple” “but muh yelling class reductionism tho” it’s oddly familiar, because it sounds like a projection: to reduce the issue to “just being too difficult to do anything about” is a cope but one that comes from a very real and sincere form of fear.
EDIT: sincere place of fear is the wording I wanted to use actually.
I would argue that what happened to anita Sarkesian during gamergate is comparable to cancelling as it expressed itself on some people
So allow transphobes to kill people by denying trans lives as a thing and spread their hateful rhetoric which literally kills? Let Nazis grow their numbers by letting them recruit online uninterrupted? great plan
people dont understand their collective power, or collective power in general, even if some of them claim to believe in systemic oppression, as left wing canceling is still done as individual people venting their feelings about individual bigots (there just happens to be a lot of those people having feelings all at once, but with no kind of organization, discipline, intent, or goal, making them easy for institutions to manipulate)
Thanks for the short form video Peter! I like that you are trying to make some more condensed videos for easier sharing.
I don't know. I don't think it matters if I know. I keep on going back to a thing that happened in the early 1990's: I was wearing some hand me down Birkenstock sandals, and someone called me out for "supporting nazis" and I said that if the worst thing nazis did was make a jew's feet comfortable, I guess I was OK with nazis. Point isn't whether I was the hero or villain- I still don't know if the Birkenstock company are nazi or not- the point is that I don't know if the information is valid.
No.
Early 20th Century American socialism was an obvious victim of Cancel Culture.
"Cancel Culture" is the commodification of public shaming for social capital. It has rebranded for the Social Media age. Our adoption of these platforms happened without a set of norms in place, so it is unsurprising the porting of public shaming occurred. The political nature of public shaming lends itself to the cut and thrust of the tribal nature of Neoliberalism. What I find frankly daft is the idea that one side tries to ascribe it as coming from the other. That is just the hijacking of our inherent tribal nature for scoring points. The misuse of power is inherent in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Power corrupts because hierarchy is the basis of domination and hegemony. It has no inherent "side". It is neither "Left" or "Right". It's just domination, and that is the enemy of everyone. So Puritans of all shades damage us. If things were straightforward and simple as these Puritans believe there would be no need to stifle expression or claim victimhood. Violence by word or act is corrosive, and nobody deserves violence done to them. Just disagree and move on.
I wonder if this was prompted by that stupid stuff that got that one actress fired. She was treated like she was Mel Gibson, when she was just misinformed and kind of dumb. If we want to toss everybody like that onto the trash heap, we're going to be very busy tossing out 40% of the country.
Just in time for Sia's cancellation
Hi Movie Bob…
"Canale culture" is just a new form of public shaming the neo left has weponized to block any opinions that they don't agree with.
"Here's social media, so you can tell us what you want to buy"
"Ok"
I keep getting confused watching these clips cause I've already seen the full thing. I'm an idiot.
#CancelDisneyPlus was trending by team MAGA the other day, so the answer is no.
Yet how many left wing popular talking heads are supportivevof not just cancel culture but censorship in general.
Cancel culture is a statist mechanism with its roots in medieval christianity, with its historical propensity for burning heretics and disbelievers at the stake, often for what simply started as a disagreement with the totality of the clergy, ended in the reductionist conclusion of an insult against a higher power, one worthy of a populist canceling by public execution….
'cancel culture' is when our owners train us to do their dirty work for them.
My problem with cancel culture is we call a lot of stuff 'being cancelled' that's actually just verbal and emotional abuse. It's the same problem I have with the word bullying. Call a spade a spade, call abuse abuse. Why do we sugar coat this stuff?