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Originally Posted by pylon
Yes and no...LOL.
I don't believe anyone should be told what they can and cannot say. Nobody shouldn't be censored in the first place. Obviously there are limitations. Trump incited a riot, and we all know it. He should be held accountable. He and his minions yelled fire in a crowded theater essentially. If you say something so stupid and offensive you dig your own grave, so be it. As Kanye did. That's good cancel culture.
My issue is with how far cancel culture went. I do disagree with people having their lives ruined because they simply don't agree with something. Have a different or opposing view. Or have a moment of weakness and say one stupid sentence in their life's journey. But once the SJW mob decides your time is up.... you don't have a chance.
I think a good example is Jordan Peterson. Say what you want about the guy, but he's made it clear his issue with C16 never had anything to do with the Trans community, it was with compelled speech component. They didn't exactly 'cancel' him per se, as he has quite the audience and wealth now. But he was driven from his chosen profession as a result of his opinion and holding his ground on an issue.
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Yeah, it's already been said by a few people, but if you're going to try to find/use an example of someone who was cancelled just because they had a different opinion, Jordan Peterson isn't the hill to die on.
1) He very much is transphobic, he has made that very clear
2) The entire premise of his beef with C16 was completely wrong, there was no compelled speech component. He knew this, and he completely/deliberately misrepresented the whole thing so he could make is bad faith argument about what the bill represented/actually did
3) He wasn't cancelled/driven away by the university, he continued to teach his crappy classes and spout whatever he wanted for quite some time. He quit, in no small part (and in his own words) because because students (other than white, heterosexual, males) generally decided for themselves that they didn't want to listen to someone preaching a bunch garbage. He essentially got tired of students exercising their right to free speech by telling him they didn't want to listen to him.
Hell you even say yourself he wasn't canceled. He essentially took his ball and went home. Freaking snowflake that he is.