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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
What gets me about the Mesley incident is that none of her peers in the media stood up for, even though I'd wager the great majority of them saw nothing at all wrong with what she did and could easily have done the same thing.
The danger is not the zealots. The danger is all the people who acquiesce to zealotry out of cowardice.
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Pretty much exactly this.
"Cancel culture" is only as powerful as the power it is given. Sometimes, giving that power away is a decision based on it being beneficial, your stock potentially goes up with your fans, customers, etc. Other times, your stock or freedom to do what you do successfully goes down, so it's smarter not to give any of that power away.
You look at The Chicks, who made a change before it became an issue, but they gave away a bit of power in what is a pretty prudent decision. You look at Chapelle, who hasn't changed despite attempts to "cancel" him, and he's been successful by keeping that power. Youtube stars are scattered on both ends of success and failure based not on what they did or who they offended, but based on how they reacted. And this situation, where it should have been very easy to keep that power with a reasonable explanation, it was given away in much greater quantities than were necessary, and actually made the situation somewhat worse.