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that is the propaganda that won the day but I don't think it was true to any real extent besides a few celebrities getting "cancelled" on twitter

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It was and is clearly true. Many health organizations have style guides describing which words you should or should not use to describe various groups. See for example the American Cancer Society’s (https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/online-documen...) - picked just as the first nicely formatted Google result.

People lost their jobs because of this. The first widely published incident was “Donglegate”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donglegate, but I'm sure there were earlier cases. Some other were not considered for the positions, because their DEI statement was not sufficiently affirming or whatever.

Those are not "few celebrities", and not a propaganda. This really happened, and understanding that this is a real issue might be the first step to understand why the pendulum is in full swing.

If obvious and topical facts like Donglegate are still downvoted, I assume that the proponents of the left cancel culture indeed only understand one language, namely counter cancellations.

The Python Software Foundation should lose its 501c status because it is an overtly political organization that strays from its purported mission. It should further be defunded by all tech CEOs who were present at Trump's inauguration.

Watch this being flagged and another Python marketing post rise to the front page soon for compensation.

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