Re NPR Lady: Can we just take a moment to be scared by how *thin* this ideology turns out to be when people are forced to give direct answers to straight questions rather than attack the language or divert? It's platitudes and pieties all the way down, and yet this is the basis upon which careers were wrecked, friendships ended, public intellectuals outlawed.
Re NPR Lady: Can we just take a moment to be scared by how *thin* this ideology turns out to be when people are forced to give direct answers to straight questions rather than attack the language or divert? It's platitudes and pieties all the way down, and yet this is the basis upon which careers were wrecked, friendships ended, public intellectuals outlawed.
The most aggravating thing to me is knowing that millions of people hopped on this bandwagon without any serious critical thinking, happily ruined lives for the dopamine hit of a few likes, and now they can all move on acting as if they never took part in it or seriously believed it. In fact most of these people don't give it any thought at all.
I wish ever person, not just the presidents of NPR and a handful of universities, could be held accountable for even a moment like this lady was.
I disagree that only people in positions of power like her deserve to be held accountable. Everyone who participated in the madness is culpable.
I've experienced pile-ons from people that I know in real life, and people in my extended social network, not just internet randos. Everyone who participated in this insanity has hurt someone, to one degree or another.
So have the people who remained silent rather than speak out against it, though they are less culpable in my opinion.
I think a searchable "cancellation receipts" website could prove satisfying.
I have managed to stay under the radar to avoid what you have suffered, but have however quietly self cancelled from a whole raft of communities where I can no longer be authentic. This has left me very angry.
Overall, what's dismaying but also interesting is the way that coordination failed. In a sane world, unions and other associations would have backed the victims, and mangers, venue owners, teachers and authority figures etc would have presented a united front.
For example, in the NHS Fife Nurse scandal (Upton vs Peggie), the nurse's union washed its hands of the nurses.
It turns out that a lot of organisations aren't actually controlled by the people they claim to represent.
Re NPR Lady: Can we just take a moment to be scared by how *thin* this ideology turns out to be when people are forced to give direct answers to straight questions rather than attack the language or divert? It's platitudes and pieties all the way down, and yet this is the basis upon which careers were wrecked, friendships ended, public intellectuals outlawed.
The most aggravating thing to me is knowing that millions of people hopped on this bandwagon without any serious critical thinking, happily ruined lives for the dopamine hit of a few likes, and now they can all move on acting as if they never took part in it or seriously believed it. In fact most of these people don't give it any thought at all.
I wish ever person, not just the presidents of NPR and a handful of universities, could be held accountable for even a moment like this lady was.
I disagree that only people in positions of power like her deserve to be held accountable. Everyone who participated in the madness is culpable.
I've experienced pile-ons from people that I know in real life, and people in my extended social network, not just internet randos. Everyone who participated in this insanity has hurt someone, to one degree or another.
So have the people who remained silent rather than speak out against it, though they are less culpable in my opinion.
I think a searchable "cancellation receipts" website could prove satisfying.
I have managed to stay under the radar to avoid what you have suffered, but have however quietly self cancelled from a whole raft of communities where I can no longer be authentic. This has left me very angry.
Overall, what's dismaying but also interesting is the way that coordination failed. In a sane world, unions and other associations would have backed the victims, and mangers, venue owners, teachers and authority figures etc would have presented a united front.
For example, in the NHS Fife Nurse scandal (Upton vs Peggie), the nurse's union washed its hands of the nurses.
It turns out that a lot of organisations aren't actually controlled by the people they claim to represent.
Socially acceptable bullying as usual