This tends to be my gut reaction too. Maybe because I live in a very conservative area and come from a very conservative background. In my filter bubble I consistently see people saying really horrible, legitimately and unapologetically racist and mysoginist things and not being called out or cancelled in any meaningful way but actually encouraged. That makes it hard to take complaints about cancel culture seriously.
That being said I'm very sympathetic to people saying they've seen this before and know where it's headed. So I want to understand GP and try to act accordingly. I just can't stomach lending support to the gun-toting, trigger-happy, unapologetically authoritarian Trump regime.
So a key understanding here is the difference between common crude rhetoric - and other dynamics.
Concern over 'cancel culture' has nothing to do with the right for people to be racist jerkoffs.
It mostly a concern over people not to be able to hold opinions, intellectuals not allowed to speak, for actors not to be 'shamed' because they played someone of a different ethnicity - i.e. a lot of things for which there are thresholds of sensitivity but otherwise, most people are not offended because actions are not objectively offensive.
This idea that 'cancel culture' is defending the KKK or people calling people the 'n-word' is the biggest straw-man of the era.
Nobody cares about Nazis or Harvey Weinstein. But Nick Cannon, Kevin Hart, Jordan Peterson, JK Rowling etc. - this is ridiculous.
I'll bet $100 that the public at large is 'correct' in most cases of 'cancel culture'.
Should 'Weinstein' be cancelled? Probably 99% agree.
JK Rowling? Probably 1% agree.
Kevin Hart? Probably 2% agree.
People are not hopped up on ridiculousness and have some sensibility - the fighting is mostly on twitter and in the news.
