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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I completely see why you don’t want to provide details OP. But you aren’t going to get a bunch of people rushing to support you without details.

I am an employment discrimination lawyer. The certainty with which people believe they have been wronged bears absolutely no relation to whether they have actually been wronged. On both sides of of the equation— the victims and the accusers.[/quote]

Not looking for support, just trying to get people to understand that a person being cancelled is not evidence of them deserving it. Sometimes deeply unfair things happen to people.

But it becomes a self-reinforcing belief: if they were cancelled, they must have deserved it, and if they deserved it, we shouldn’t listen to anything else they say.

I also get tired of people conflating the “cancellation” of rich and powerful people who committed public or well known wrongs (most of these people are never truly cancelled because they are rich and powerful, so unless they wind up in prison, they’ll be ok).

And private people who are cancelled on the basis of a rumor or unproven allegation. They aren’t the same. There was no formal investigation into my situation (I wish there had been, as it would have vindicated me) and most of the people who canceled me knew nothing more about it than they had been told third or fourth hand. Very different than a public investigation.

I was compelled to post because the thread about the teen reminded me of how easily rumors and an eager audience can destroy a person’s life.[/quote]

The way “cancelled” is thrown around in these threads is baffling to me.  Like the way every act of rudeness/meanness/unfriendliness is now called “bullying.”

I thought cancellation was a conservative grievance term for the removal of a public platform, like his show/commercial/book publication was cancelled. How is that even possible in the context of a private person?  If OP was dropped from a friend or work group for something they said, are we calling that being “cancelled’ now?[/quote]

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