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Good piece overall, but it still succumbs to what I see as the central problem with this issue: conflating the *actions* of the audience with their *effect* on the target. Is being cancelled a matter of the way people critique you? Or is it about what happens to you when they do?
You can get a sense of this problem when Herzog describes Bari Weiss as having been cancelled, even though her career has suffered no obvious damage, and in fact has arguably been enhanced. In this sense, cancellation doesn't really hinge on outcomes at all, just process.
But I don't think that's what people typically mean when they talk about cancellation.
Blurg, I'm too tired to think about this nonsense. Ultimately, I really feel this is just about shifting standards, not a tightening of standards.
Blurg, I'm too tired to think about this nonsense. Ultimately, I really feel this is just about shifting standards, not a tightening of standards.
