Comment by DanielVZ

> How can "political reasons" be false? I can imagine a lot of political reasons for a woman to "cancel" a man, especially if they're misogynist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, or transphobic, but the vagueness of your anecdote is suspect.

What was false were the claims and I can say that because I was involved in the situations she described to cancel him.

I said “petty political reasons” as a summary for conciseness sake. But if you want more details:

- after they broke up she joined a certain left wing political party (student federation elections are a big deal here)

- during the election cycle my friend was part of the opposing team and they were doing quite well

- so the girl was approached by her party leadership to cancel him. They had this whole “cancel the opposition” operation

- Turns out everything was false and was done to benefit the left wing candidates and end the candidacy of the opposing party. which worked. They had to take down their candidacy to deal with all the problems that come from being cancelled.

> Depending on what kind of person you are, there are plenty more serious and realistic risks that getting randomly cancelled by your social circle.

I’m not so sure about that. Being cancelled is pretty serious, and quite risky. I’ve seen it quite a few times (this one being the closest I’ve been to people involved), and it’s so easy to avoid that I prefer to just do it. For example if I could avoid driving a car I would, but I do it because otherwise it is prohibitively expensive time wise.