The Best Analogy For Cancel Culture You’ll Ever Hear

[abubow]

Took a minute for him to get the joke😂

[redman]

"This is a place of welcoming and you need to just get the hell out of here." - Michael Scott.

[andrewbutton]

Sounds like a reworded paradox of tolerance.

[Odima]

Yeah, like other people have said, this is just the paradox of tolerance. If you are tolerant of intolerance, intolerance wins. So you have to practice being intolerant sometimes in order to uphold tolerance.

[TsunamiNR]

What I like most about cancel culture, is how often it’s overplayed. Prominent presentators, comedians, etc talk about it all the time, and yet the examples of it actually happening are incredibly scarce.

[MLennholm]

This just sounds like a version of "So you don't tolerate my intolerance? That means you're not tolerant either"

[rustyk]

The problem with Cancel Culture is that it values Reaction over Analysis.

[DvirPick]

I mean this is the (in)tolerance paradox and the answer is that a tolerant group does need to be intolerant towards intolerant people who want to dismantle it in order to keep existing. Doing what you need to do to survive can be part of your goal, so there is no contradiction between the intolerance you exhibit to survive and the values of tolerance you espouse.

[SnakeMan]

There's a difference between a joke like that, and someone being a bigoted jerk who claims that they're just joking when called out (but are sincerely bigoted).

[benkesler]

When people liken cancel culture to oppression, it really shows how little they actually experienced oppression in their life

[loodlebop]

One of the problems with cancel culture is that context and empathy are often ignored for the sake of immediate reactionary kneejerk responses

[kloug]

Every time Zizek says "you know the joke..." I have to prepare myself for a great moment.

[chriscanon]

It's kind of a rewording of the paradox of tolerance, but I think we should be critical of its solution, or at least our interpretation of its solution. The left isn't just being intolerant of intolerance, it's being intolerant of everything it regards as not itself. There is no room for nuance or the questioning of minority authority in these spaces. They miss out on diversity of opinion that is self-critical, and they devolve into a hypocritical mess

[raintalon]

Every rule has it's exception.

Regardless, people have freedom of association. Getting called out for something then getting unfollowed on Twitter isn't being canceled.

To try and get someone's music banned, banning an authors work, prohibiting some other religions assembly. These are more in line with being "cancelled". These are all things pioneered by religions fundamentalists.

[vesellin]

What type of exclusion, what are they excluding?

[sunshineslowking]

There’s a difference between being intolerant of people’s actions and being intolerant of people

[YourKaiiness]

I'm not sure this is the case. If you look at the individual participation in cancel culture, does it not just look like disapproval of another? We do it all the time in our personal lives to create distance from behavior that could harm us or those we care about. "Cancel culture" seems to simply be sharing this disapproval to create a sense of shame for someone. Although problematic for a whole host of reasons, it doesn't seem paradoxical to me to be carried out by those seeking inclusion for marginalized groups of people. One exclusion is based on behavior, the other based on immutable disposition.

[MG]

This is the Paradox of Tolerance but with extra steps

[estern]

the problem with cancel culture is that it does not exist. Cancel culture is an HR problem. No one has been canceled.

[komrel]

The problem with cancel culture is choosing between two zealots on who is less deserving of their peace.

Zizek is talking about cancel culture in *Practice.* If people were getting "cancelled" for actual crimes instead of thought crimes then there'd be no problem. But the justice system usually do that job fine.