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CMV: Cancel Culture is bad for everyone!

First off I thought as humans we typically learn and grow as time rolls on by. I don't understand how going back YEARS on someones social media account and taking things out of context to get said person fired or "canceled"  is okay.

I remember growing up words like "retarded" and "faggot" weren't used to be offensive at all, but today god forbid you say either of those words. If we keep moving in the same direction we are, there will be words 10 years from now that we look back on and 'can't' say anymore. 

I bet these people who go out of there way to cancel someones whole life are using words that could get them canceled in the near future.

Also getting canceled for political views is absurd. Sure you may be okay with it because you agree with the views of the ones doing the canceling. But what If the tables turned, would you be okay with getting canceled for voicing your political views?
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> Also getting canceled for political views is absurd. Sure you may be okay with it because you agree with the views of the ones doing the canceling. But what If the tables turned, would you be okay with getting canceled for voicing your political views?

Imagine if somebody said "Sure, you're OK with putting murderers in prison. But what if we put people who saved lives in prison instead? Would you be OK with that?" That would be a pretty absurd argument, right? Prisons are not justified because locking people up and taking their freedoms is a universal good thing, but because the people who get locked up and have their freedoms taken away (theoretically) deserve it.

Saying "Cancel culture is bad, because what if it affected a different set of politics" is like that first absurd argument about prison. It doesn't matter, because that's not what is happening and not what "the point" is. The "goal" of cancel culture, inasmuch as it has one, is to make a subset of bigoted opinions difficult to express as a public figure; saying "what if it was trying to make different, good opinions difficult to express" is not a real argument.