What a bad take. I would expect Paul Graham to be more educated on a topic before he says something so tired and uninsightful.
It comes from BOTH SIDES. The right wing also cancels people with social media. A few well-placed articles by right-wing publications and their targets will have a months long harassment campaign of people trying to break into their social media and bank accounts, constant death threats and hate messages and photographs of their house, insults, harassment at their place of work. Convenient that always gets left out of the "cancel culture" discussions.
We need to stop acting like conservatives have no power in this country. They do, they literally run the country and arguments like this are just people getting in additional body-blows against liberal opponents. You want to see what "performatice victimhood" looks like, look at the extremely rich Paul Graham whining that people get mad at him when he says things we don't like. We do not like the way we are treated, and we are going to continue to speak out. If that gets you fired: GOOD.
I understand it is frustrating, and I have said before: I don't like the cry bullies and woke-scolds on the internet. I do not think they actually care about the cultural movement, and I think they should go outside and get a life. But I honestly believe the progress we have made in the cultural consciousness for gay, trans, and people of color has been phenomenal, and it arises from the new "woke culture."
I think the cry-bullying and woke-scolding days are numbered, they are starting to eat their own and even allies are getting sick of it.
It comes from BOTH SIDES. The right wing also cancels people with social media. A few well-placed articles by right-wing publications and their targets will have a months long harassment campaign of people trying to break into their social media and bank accounts, constant death threats and hate messages and photographs of their house, insults, harassment at their place of work. Convenient that always gets left out of the "cancel culture" discussions.
We need to stop acting like conservatives have no power in this country. They do, they literally run the country and arguments like this are just people getting in additional body-blows against liberal opponents. You want to see what "performatice victimhood" looks like, look at the extremely rich Paul Graham whining that people get mad at him when he says things we don't like. We do not like the way we are treated, and we are going to continue to speak out. If that gets you fired: GOOD.
I understand it is frustrating, and I have said before: I don't like the cry bullies and woke-scolds on the internet. I do not think they actually care about the cultural movement, and I think they should go outside and get a life. But I honestly believe the progress we have made in the cultural consciousness for gay, trans, and people of color has been phenomenal, and it arises from the new "woke culture."
I think the cry-bullying and woke-scolding days are numbered, they are starting to eat their own and even allies are getting sick of it.