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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
This is just not true. Being openly gay at work would be out of the question when most of our parents were born. We have much more freedom against "cancellation" than we've ever had.
Indeed. It tends to be a criticism levelled by joe rogan type fanboys because some right wing agitator had their talk cancelled at some random university. As if that's a precursor to a 1984-esque dystopia. It's embarrassing.
Just imagine having to defend that position to your grandkids in 20 years time if populism and authoritarianism really do take hold, climate denialism has led to irreversible damage with extreme weather now commonplace...
"So, what happened, how could you vote for this? How could you allow this to happen? Why didn't you stop it? Did you not care about us?"
"Well, kid, I used to be a liberal, but then these ****ers cancelled an episode of Fawlty Towers and I just couldn't let that stand. No decent human being would."