crystalzelda February 26th, 2021, 05:30 am Yeah, cancel culture for people like JKR and Jeffree Star does not exist because they are insulated and will always have enough fans and money to retain some form of protection and platform. it absolutely does exist for the rest of the peons on the internet who can and do get their comeuppance. People have killed themselves after getting publicly shamed hard enough. A woman in DC took a picture of a train operator eating a sandwich to gripe about the fact that other commuters were fined for eating on trains and that it was unfair that operators did it without repercussion. For that, she was fired from her job, her book deal was cancelled, and she was dropped by her agent and publishing house. Did she deserve all that? I mean, you decide, taking a picture of someone and posting it on Twitter is scummy as fuck and there's schadenfreude that her attempt to get someone in trouble blew back so hard. On the other hand, that woman was well and truly cancelled. It does happen. Just not to the people big enough to absorb it.
whowants_candy February 26th, 2021, 10:27 am You are stripping a lot of nuance from the DC story. She did not just "take a picture of someone and post it on Twitter." She, a non-Black woman, posted a photo of a Black WMATA employee eating lunch on the train, and then proceeded to provide details explicitly so the WMATA could identify and take disciplinary action against the employee. This is despite that the employee has ZERO say over the implementation of rules and regulations. So there was nothing to be gained from her actions but getting a Black worker fired for...eating...food? She was punching down, way down. Especially in a city where the class divide between white-collar (predominantly non-Black, including the author) and blue-collar (predominantly Black, including the WMATA employee) employees is incredibly wide. I'm not going to discuss whether or not the author deserved to be cancelled, but that story should not be retold without the proper context.
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February 26th, 2021, 05:30 am
Yeah, cancel culture for people like JKR and Jeffree Star does not exist because they are insulated and will always have enough fans and money to retain some form of protection and platform. it absolutely does exist for the rest of the peons on the internet who can and do get their comeuppance. People have killed themselves after getting publicly shamed hard enough.
A woman in DC took a picture of a train operator eating a sandwich to gripe about the fact that other commuters were fined for eating on trains and that it was unfair that operators did it without repercussion. For that, she was fired from her job, her book deal was cancelled, and she was dropped by her agent and publishing house. Did she deserve all that? I mean, you decide, taking a picture of someone and posting it on Twitter is scummy as fuck and there's schadenfreude that her attempt to get someone in trouble blew back so hard. On the other hand, that woman was well and truly cancelled. It does happen. Just not to the people big enough to absorb it.
whowants_candy
February 26th, 2021, 10:27 am
You are stripping a lot of nuance from the DC story. She did not just "take a picture of someone and post it on Twitter." She, a non-Black woman, posted a photo of a Black WMATA employee eating lunch on the train, and then proceeded to provide details explicitly so the WMATA could identify and take disciplinary action against the employee. This is despite that the employee has ZERO say over the implementation of rules and regulations. So there was nothing to be gained from her actions but getting a Black worker fired for...eating...food?
She was punching down, way down. Especially in a city where the class divide between white-collar (predominantly non-Black, including the author) and blue-collar (predominantly Black, including the WMATA employee) employees is incredibly wide. I'm not going to discuss whether or not the author deserved to be cancelled, but that story should not be retold without the proper context.