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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Keld@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Because all I've got is Kevin Spacey.

People talk of this like it was a huge problem that destroyed lives. So I feel like there should be plenty of names.

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[-] axont@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's the actor Jonathan Majors if that counts. He hasn't been in anything since 2023. But that's also not an instance of outcry against his opinions or politics or whatever, but because it turned out he's assaulted multiple women.

I hate how vague the term cancel culture is. Reactionairies use the term to mean anything from a person on twitter getting 5 negative comments, to someone getting fired from a newspaper because they were having an affair. It just means "when there are consequences to something I think is ok." For a while it seemed like the primary victims of cancel culture were white professors and conservative journalists who kept saying slurs and getting reprimanded by their employers. But the way reactionairies talk about it is some kind of 1984 panopticon of groupthink that violently destroys people for arbitrary reasons.

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Spacey and Majors are why I said this

Also all the people brought up when discussing "cancelling" did fine and were criminals

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'll have you know Majors is acting in the Ben Shapiro production studio, at least until his defenestration a couple months ago

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