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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just wish everyone would calm down. As a Black person I see all of this hand wringing about cancel culture as an excuse to not engage in solving the problem of racial inequities.

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I am one of the people of color who posted above and agree; it’s not that complicated.

Most of the handwringing on this thread is advanced by conservatives who are aiming to make “wokeness” into a bad word and “cancel culture” into the bogeyman responsible for all society’s ills.

For that they will claim that children are being penalized for their actions as middle schoolers, BIPOC are equally responsible for their own oppression, and since no one is perfect, nothing can ever be improved unless we all just quit whining about rights and oppression.

It’s like MAGA bingo in here. Next up someone will bring up rap music, black on black crime, and how all minorities hate each other. The same damn tires arguments again and again.[/quote]

It's not just conservatives decrying the cancel culture & wokeness. It's liberals, too. May of the PPs above have said that they are liberals. We are sick and tired of it. And people are being penalized for actions as MS, HS, etc. But even if the action was as an adult, is reformation not possible? The current climate seems to be aimed at internet warfare instead of creating actual cultural change. [/quote]

If you’re a liberal decrying cancel culture, then you’ve been drawn hook line and sinker into the MAGA argument that it is more about internet warfare than shining a light on racist, sexist, homophobic behavior.

Cancel culture is a straw man and a myth.

In the year of our lord 2021, if you say something racist, then you probably will be called out for it. In the year 2000 if you said the same thing, you wouldn’t be. That’s just called progress.

People who hate being called out on their shitty behavior are crying about cancel culture rather than actually changing[/quote]

That's nonsense. Cancel culture is very real but liberals seem to be blind to it because they're too busy throwing stones. In my view, the idea of "wokeness" and "cancel culture" is more about internet warfare and liberals feigning piety than anything else. Time would be better spent if these internet worries were pushing education and reform instead of shutting people down. Eschewing people to the periphery of society, as they hope to do, does not win over any converts. It creates more hard line extremism. It just doesn't make sense to devalue reformation and reflection if the ultimate goal is to achieve a more equitable society. We all agree that die-hard alt-right, storm the capitol types should not be given a platform from which to spew hate speech. The problem with "cancel culture" is that it goes too far. Instead of targeting the obvious bad apples in society, it goes after everyone - even for small "offenses" which are often the result of a misunderstanding or lack of education. The problem is that society has no forgiveness and no space for discussion.

And I've been doing the work in equality and equity for decades. Don't give me this BS about being called out for shitty behavior. Because I'm doing the work, I'm tired of people taking the easy way out. [/quote]

You’re painting with an awfully broad brush there for someone who has supposedly “done the work”. All of society is too busy throwing stones to care about education? Can you reread what you wrote and honestly say that “cancel culture” however you define it, is what is really wrong with society today? That a few internet people can’t coexist with a real progressive move towards reform? [/quote]

Reading comprehension not your strong suit? It = "wokeness" and "cancel culture" as identified in the top few lines. At no point did I say "all of society". It is a narrow discussion on the overreach of wokeness and cancel culture. Read carefully and stop generalizing.

But this does sort of highlight the issue - an overgeneralization that thus leads off topic and creates no actual dialogue or discussion. [/quote]

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