I'm not even sure what the agenda is here. I know they aren't dumb enough to say cancel culture doesn't exist. Nor are they dumb enough to say it does exist, but that it's not bad.
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Billy Bragg sums up the rights game here and why eventually they will lose.
The latest creation in their war against accountability is “cancel culture”, an ill-defined notion that takes in corporate moves to recognise structural racism, the toppling of statues, social media bullying, public shaming and other diverse attempts to challenge the status quo.
An open letter that is clearly decrying cancel culture (without naming it as such), signed by 150 academics and writers from all sides of the political spectrum, appeared this week in Harper’s Magazine. The signatories complained of a censoriousness that was stifling debate and called for arguments to be settled by persuasion rather than action. Lip service was paid to the menace of Donald Trump, but the main thrust of their argument was a howl of anguish from a group that has suddenly found its views no longer treated with reverence.
Many of those who attached their names to the letter are longstanding cultural arbiters, who, in the past, would only have had to fear the disapproval of their peers. Social media has burst their bubble and they now find that anyone with a Twitter account can challenge their opinions. The letter was their demand for a safe space.
One of the signatories, the New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss, touched on the source of this malaise when she claimed recently that a “civil war” was going on across publications and companies across the US between those she described as “the (mostly young) wokes and the (mostly 40+) liberals”. Was it really a surprise to discover that some younger people might hold strong views that diverge with those of older generations?
Her revelation seems to be borne out in the most contentious issue in British politics – Brexit. Opinion is divided less on class or ideological lines, and more by age. Political conflict today is increasingly a battle between the young and the old.
Over the past decade, the right to make inflammatory statements has become a hot button issue for the reactionary right, who have constructed tropes such as political correctness and virtue signalling to enable them to police the limits of social change while portraying themselves as victims of an organised assault on liberty itself.
Nah, Billy is anything but that, he is that rare thing an artist who has always put his money where his mouth is. Be it, Rock against Fasism, the miners strike, CND, Poll Tax the wars in Iraq. Billy has always helped the oppreseed find a voice. He is a true hero.
Over the past decade, the right to make inflammatory statements has become a hot button issue for the reactionary right, who have constructed tropes such as political correctness and virtue signalling to enable them to police the limits of social change while portraying themselves as victims of an organised assault on liberty itself.
Disagree PC, virtue signalling and cancel culture seem far more those kind of words and phrases. You know the ones that imply the sayer is the victim and ask for a safe space from such ideas.
I was honestly enjoying the thread until your post. Everything said was reasonable. Cancel culture has been weaponized; it has ruined people’s lives unjustly and we knew as far back as the 1700s that mob justice is utterly terrible.
disagree, but clearly you don't feel cancel culture is yet another example of the reactionary right to both cry victim and ask for a safe space from protest.
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