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JK Rowling has been condemned by a very small but also very shouty corner of the internet. "Widely condemned" isn't really accurate. "Condemned loudly by a small number of people" would be a better description of the situation. I agree with some of Rowling's views and disagree with others, but they're all firmly in the mainstream.
I think we were on the same page here. Widely condemned means that a) a lot of people knew, b) a lot of people knew what the offense was, and c) a lot of people disagreed with her and thought it should be condemned.
Also we're focusing on people like JK Rowling and Rush Limbaugh. There are millions of people not openly discussing things constructively because frankly some things cannot be discussed constructively or differing viewpoints are labeled bad. As a parent it is frightening to see how much kids are caught up in the online witchunts.
Its good you didnt waste your time. It doesnt say what tim said it did.
All these years and racism gets him. I would've guessed he got caught banging one of the bacherlorettes would have been his demise.
Rumors are he has tapped a couple who did not get roses. "Hey come on..no rose for you but I have plenty of booze"
Liberals, progressives and those who support the transgender community and trans rights. I guess maybe you missed the reaction on social media. Here are some of the most popular hashtags.
Maybe maybe not, lots of variables including the time table for the atomic bombs and German speed of conquest. But that would be a nuanced conversation. We can't have that.
First of all, they (liberals, progressives, and transgender community supporters) make up a minority of the population. Second of all, posting hashtags is not a representative sample of the population at large, especially since we know how social media is and who uses social media to do stuff like this. This is a Twitter mob, nothing more. This is not "widespread condemnation" in any sense of that term. Maybe in the activist leftie world, but in almost no other orbit. This is a few activists with nothing better to do than to try and cancel Rowling and draw attention to their cause. Gervais goes through the same thing for deadnaming by the Twitter mobs. It's not widespread. Your average citizen still calls Caitlyn Jenner "Bruce," completely unaware of the vagaries of the new and appropriate LBGTQ+ brigade. And they still read J.K. Rowling books but for the inkling that they heard something about her maybe.
It would require a knowledge of military history and I'm admittedly lacking in that department.
Yeah, in the interests of moving the conservation in a different direction than the current dunk-fest on tim, I'll add a few thoughts of where I think hand-wringing over cancel culture is misplaced.
Have you watched Social Dilemma yet? I have asked you this before but you never answer. I think you would have a different opinion about Twitter and FB feeds.
As is often the case, Black Mirror did this topic better. (Not my favorite episode because it's paced too slowly, but that's just me).
No, because if I watched every YouTube clip or video recommended here (see GordonGekko and friends) I wouldn't have time for anything else.
do you realize with how many people you cancel yourself by the first word of your sentence?
what is rarely mentioned in this context, though possibly the terciary Olympus of the syndrome, is the role of women's ascension (no minority there, bromeat) in the genesis of semantic Puritanism and subsequent HR ethic and post-modern blameloads
In regards to this discussion, it is amazing we can't honor men like Churchill. Despite his flaws and racism it is only because of people llike him that we can imagine a free and non racist society. The reason we don't have Empires based on vicious, aggressive racists, the likes of which we can barely imagine, the kind that destroy whole cultures and populations, is because some one stood and said no more. It is shocking some people benefitting from his and his countries sacrifice want to cast him as no better than the true monsters he fought.
I'm a big fan of using Wikipedia as my entry point for getting up to speed on things I'm not familiar with. If I wanted to find out what The Weeknd was, I'd start by seeing if there was a relevant article in Wikipedia.
I actually read the complaint against him. Interesting to see that he was cast as racist when in fact he might have helped defeat the most racist and powerfully genocidal regime of the 20th century. He may very well have been racist, but one would figure that being one of the key figures and countries in defeating the Nazis, he would get a pass. Johnny Rotten and the mohawked Churchill statue I can understand -- the Sex Pistols and their punk rock ilk were self-proclaimed nihilists, through and through. But anything resembling academic honesty on the left would leave Churchill as the lion that he was with respect to naming buildings and schools and the like. I mean, for goodness's sake, why not just impeach history?
dang - cancelled like My Mother the Car
You're asking an awful lot of me. I can only literal splain, otherwise I'm tapped. If you need me twain the two of those, I can offer up a cup of hot coffee and whiskey (hot cocoa if you're abstaining) and a too-condescending pat on the beak. Crows on the loose!dang - cancelled like My Mother the Car
y'know, i find your attempts to make sense of my posts rather paternalistic. care to mansplain why i might feel that way? #GTO
This is so true, so eminently cancelling. Ay de mi. tim and squis would throw mad fits over a discussion of this, as would most (Shocked! Shocked I say!) observers.
i never bring it up here because there is no one with standing to argue
Tim thinks that cancel culture is just a made up term because men like treating women badly on the weeknds with some guy name ted that rearranges lawn chairs.
mr timmy is bothered by how much reactionary media is citing cancel culture lately and most are responding by checking his teeth for baby shards
I've commented over thirty times and am having real trouble with it, too, so you're not alone. tim is saying that cancel culture is a good thing because it forces people to be respectful of each other. Most of us see cancel culture as pernicious and unwanted, an albatross around the neck of freedom of expression. The debate then follows from there.
i'm from Salem, so i know how kooky things can get when men and women contest the Righteous Perch
Yes, the righteous perch always winds up with the other sinking or swimming, it seems. In the name of heresy against one form of authoritative norm or another.
I have faith in your comprehension of the abstract.
Could someone translate that to English?
You have no idea of the word's meaning or origin yet you're pretty sure the right wing is using it against women.
That was unnecessary condescension, not surprisingly followed by complete gibberish.
I don’t think the origin is important. Would you agree that it’s mostly used by the right, and that it’s mostly used as a complaint?
