Why cancel culture is still rooted in freedom

[Lise]

I feel like we agree @Jodistrict? Still kind of feel gaslighted about this topic by my society. Because of course the people for cancel culture don’t frame it as that they are cancelling or against freedom of speech. They just think «wrong» thoughts should be deplatformed (often with weak arguments for why). Do you think that that is self deception?

[carterfelder]

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” - Voltaire

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - George Orwell

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” - Noam Chomsky

Edited March 29 by carterfelder

[Elliott]

No one get's cancelled, name one cancelled person. Kanye still promotes nazism everyday and even elon banned him.

The people that get banned are trolls, not people looking for discussion.

[carterfelder]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/14/25-times-cancel-culture-was-real/

[Elliott]

11 minutes ago, carterfelder said:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/14/25-times-cancel-culture-was-real/

Ya, fox news or high schools shouldn't be able to fire me if i start teaching how you're gay, transgender, and cops are racist, right?

Edited March 29 by Elliott

[Twentyfirst]

But that means pushback on cancel culture is rooted in freedom too

I wonder where the culture war came from?

[Twentyfirst]

1 hour ago, Elliott said:

No one get's cancelled, name one cancelled person. Kanye still promotes nazism everyday and even elon banned him.

The people that get banned are trolls, not people looking for discussion.

Maybe the people who got cancelled are in jail and you can't hear from them. Or they were burned at the stake and are dead lol

[Elliott]

Republicans deport people for disagreeing, but a news outlet shouldn't fire someone for posting trans hate.

[carterfelder]

5 hours ago, Elliott said:

Republicans deport people for disagreeing, but a news outlet shouldn't fire someone for posting trans hate.

Transgender ideology hate, or transgender people hate?

[Elliott]

24 minutes ago, carterfelder said:

Transgender ideology hate, or transgender people hate?

Either, just as someone should be fired in my opinion for spreading hate against Christian ideology or christians.

[Twentyfirst]

33 minutes ago, Elliott said:

Either, just as someone should be fired in my opinion for spreading hate against Christian ideology or christians.

What if they are the best at their jobs? Them giving an opinion would get them fired and then all the value they provide would disappear from whatever market they are participating in

[Elliott]

19 minutes ago, Twentyfirst said:

What if they are the best at their jobs? Them giving an opinion would get them fired and then all the value they provide would disappear from whatever market they are participating in

It's about business, I'm not talking from a moral perspective. They would lose business. Heck, fox news has fired their top darlings over and over again for it.

[Jodistrict]

11 hours ago, Elliott said:

No one get's cancelled, name one cancelled person. Kanye still promotes nazism everyday and even elon banned him.

The people that get banned are trolls, not people looking for discussion.

Trump was banned from Twitter while he was still President of the United States

[Elliott]

2 hours ago, Jodistrict said:

Trump was banned from Twitter while he was still President of the United States

And no one has heard from him ever since.