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>An unhappy side effect of the digital age is “cancel culture.”

i.e. "I am uncomfortable with large amounts of people telling me I'm an asshole."

Cancel culture is when people are actually canceled: when accounts are shut down, people are fired, bank accounts closed, people are blacklisted. Actual material damages. Trivialization does not serve your point.

And sometimes the targets are driven to suicide, their friends and families left to grow up and live on without them.

Even if everything being asserted against them is true, the penalties rarely seem fitting for a civilized society.

> Even if everything being asserted against them is true, the penalties rarely seem fitting for a civilized society.

Indeed, that's the consensus that we arrived at after the Hollywood red scare. But each generation believes their crises are exponentially worse than anything previously witnessed, excusing extreme measures.

Look, I don't disagree with you. But you're talking about this like power™ doesn't exist. Like, who do you think will have more leverage in this situation you describe? A woman whose employer is a man?

Yes it does

Or "I'm uncomfortable with a loud minority attempting to censor me by attacking my Maslow's hierarchy of needs."

No

Please, expand on your argument!

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