Quote Originally Posted by squark View Post
Sigh. Did you not even read the examples I gave. These people are not Nazis, and the majority of them have been keeping their opinions to themselves. They're being targeted for things like having a political sign, wearing a hat, posting on a "bad" site when it's not even anything controversial that they're saying, or even in some cases just appearing in a photograph with someone wearing a red hat. Donating to a politician, was also something people were being targeted for - some have published donor lists and enlisted aid to track down the employers of everyone on the list to get them fired. And it's not usually customers who are even going after them. Actually, you know what, just click on the link to Greenwald's opinion piece - it's not the whole scope of things by any means, but yeah, I don't think you realize what is actually happening and he goes into some of it.
The reason I'm talking broadly is because the term is used that way. And that is really crappy. sigh.

EVERYTHING is getting called cancel culture. I already agreed some situations are dissatisfying. The ones that are bothering you? I already spoke about those...but Now I'm explaining the other points that are important...uh...we capitalist....and you're free to have actions and beliefs but you can't force someone to keep employing you if you have them. I'm not saying it's good we don't have guaranteed work or income. I'm pointing out that if we don't have guaranteed income like UBI that's the issue and forcing someone to employ someone even if it might affect the business...that's just not capitalist, afaict