Isn’t a core concern over “cancel culture” the idea that failure to conform to “woke orthodoxy” carries with it significant professional penalties and is not just a matter of “being called names”?
https://twitter.com/bridgetphetasy/status/1406863351146160132
This tweet either (a) denies this more serious component of cancel culture, in which case we shouldn’t worry so much about it, or (b) is troublingly insensitive to its real costs, which renders it useless as a piece of advice.
I think the advice in the initial tweet is generally good, but I'm poking at it a bit because I'm mounting an internal critique: the advice is somewhat in tension with a view of cancel culture as constituting an intolerable threat to people's livelihoods and reputations.
In other words, basically saying "HEY DUDES, NUT UP" to people that you're simultaneously suggesting are caught in an environment that is deeply structural hostile to any deviation from progressive orthodoxy is a bit harsh, no?
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