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What are some examples of people being cancelled by a small amount of anonymous people? I can't think of any.

Lets looks at Gina Carano for example. She was "cancelled" (fired from her job) as the direct result of her social media posting things a large number of people found offensive and inappropriate, not a small amount. 10 anonymous people didn't cause it, hundreds of thousands of people thought it was wrong.

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Where did you get hundreds of thousands?

Even if that’s accurate, doesn’t necessarily reflect the opinion of the broader public.

So no examples then?

Not a single one? That seems strange. Its almost like "cancel culture" is really just "repercussions for my terrible views" but that can't be it, right?

Thought I'd post what was said that made her lose her job for everyone to make up their own minds:

> Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children.

> "Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews.

> "How is that any different from hating someone for their political views."

The Inquisition, witch trials, outing people as gay, most of the history of the Jews..

The OP specifically says "social media".

Which is just the common media of our time, I mean come on, media is right there in the title.

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