Comment by JeremyNT
5 years ago
> Where are the statistics on this? How many are actually impacted by it?
It's a real problem, but mostly just for the sort of people who might sign on to a letter such as this: elite think tankers, academics, and columnists, who would love nothing more than to be able to continue spouting unsubstantiated nonsense with impunity.
If your livelihood is throwing opinions into the Internet wind, then of course cancel culture is an existential threat. As these sorts of people now tend to be extremely online, every little barb and retort pains them disproportionally, too.
For most of us, it's just a distraction. If you're not famous on the Internet, you can't be canceled to begin with.
Nonsense.
Read Matt Taibbi’s recent article for starters. David Shor(a junior data scientist), a Mexican-American construction worker etc.
12-year olds kicked out of school and ostracised for saying the n-word on some random TikTok.
You really must be kidding when you’re saying “normal” people aren’t affected.
Who's brilliant idea was it to give 12-year-olds unfettered access to a bidirectional wide-band broadcasting tool? That's unwise independent of the specific outcome you're describing.