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CMV: Cancel Culture is counterproductive to meaningful change

Cancel Culture is counterproductive to having open discussions, whereby people feel safe enough to learn, change opinions and grow. The immediate action taken towards people for clumsiness, misinformation and mistakes should not be so penalising, and it actively prevents people from changing, it is a sub-genre of fear culture which is inherently silencing.

It also results in people having outwardly performative 'correct' opinions, when their reality may be very different- because they don't feel comfortable enough to genuinely debate tsuch topics without fear of being hung, drawn and quartered. 

(This isn't a discussion on the extremities, such as weinstein etc, but the everyday people who make genuine errors).

CMV!
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There has never in the history of human civilization, existed any movement that claimed that all existing opinions and behaviors are equally respectable, and that there is no such thing as inappropriate behavior that should be opposed and marginalized.

"Cancel culture" has always been a self-evidently central part of human value systems. It is the most natural impulse, that we wouldn't want to see people that we consider immoral, to be held up to a pedestal, or given special favors.

Taken at a face value, it is nonsense to wish for a world where NO ONE is ever cancelled, that flies in the face of the very concept of people having values and using those values to shape the world around themselves.

Or looking at it more cynically, the way it is used today cancel culture is synonymous with "political correctness" and "virtue signaling", as a ***conservative*** dogwhistle that is priming people to be very concerned about the cases where people are seen as immoral *by progressives in particular*.

It is pure partisan hackery, that's underlying message is really just that conservative values in particular should be more respected in contrast with progressive ones.

No one was complaining about "cancel culture" 40-50 years ago, when just coming out as gay, meant that you would likely get fired from most workplaces, and kicked out of most homes. Any TV show that tried to present the main character as gay would have been under immense pressure from powerful lobbies to be literally cancelled off the air, not that any even tried.

But we are suddenly all supposed to be very worried about how unprecedentedly intolerant times we live in, because after saying something overtly homophobic, Kevin Hart is no longer welcome in quite as many venues as he could possibly be.