how picayune.
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Why do you keep trying to silence people you disagree with?
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Expressing an opinion that differs from an orthodox position does not silence people.
But the orthodox position here is with those who have power- the people who are disenfranchised are by definition not orthodox. Hell - in most places trans people still don’t have equal rights. How can we be more orthodox than a billionaire by any reasonable definition? How can the orthodox position and history of denying trans people’s full humanity and right to exist give us any real power?
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Someone should tell that to the signatories of the letter…
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Ok, let’s get to the root of the problem.
Do you believe that trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary people are non-binary?
- Yes
- No
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Stephen King and Margaret Atwood managed to answer this, so can you.
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“That could be me!” as a mechanism of social change. Unfortunately, “but for my race, my class, my access to expensive legal services, my political connections, etc” means that this only goes so far.
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Just so long as you’re not implying that if I had those advantages; I too could have been a procurer if children.
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What you did, what the government can prove you did, and what the government believes you did are three different things. In an ideal world, they would more or less overlap. But formally, the government can’t punish you if they can’t prove it. And they won’t get that chance until later.
Well, the government can’t punish rich people if they can’t prove it. Personal experience argues against such a clean line for the rest of us.
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Any photos of Geraldo hob-nobbing with Maxwell or Epstein? He wouldn’t be the first wealthy person who’s sweating because of their association with those two and trying to make nice with Maxwell as she decides who she’s going to give up (truely or falsely) to make a deal with the prosecutors.
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She was close enough with Epstein, did they used to finish each other’s sentences or is it just this time?
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Second, the phenomenon that’s been labeled “cancel culture” is just a backlash against the consequences powerful people have faced for their own bad behavior.
In some cases, and to be honest, I don’t really shed a single tear for truly powerful people, but I’ve been around a lot of drama over the years at the small-scale, interpersonal level where I thought there was some disingenuous stuff going on. Here’s a more concrete, more widely known (than my direct experiences) example of total bs:
I wish I could find it, but his friend, the recipient of the grits jokes and a black man, actually wrote a piece a while ago saying it’s bs his input was less important than the do-gooder middle aged white woman who decided to “interpret” their friendly interaction on behalf of them both and get the white guy fired.
I’m not trying to shift the topic, I just wanted to mention that a lot of people who reflexively complain about “cancel culture” may not be in it for the reasons one might think they are (although many are.) I will read more about this particular case. Seems like different people have different ideas about what “cancel culture” means and that muddies the topic.
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When private behavior goes public, it doesn’t always end well. Complaints about “cancel culture” remind me of the folks who started whining about “PC culture.” They fear consequences. They also attempt to shoot the messenger.
The article you found seemed a bit sensationalist, but that’s an unfortunate marketing tactic in print media. This one below mentions event organizers had other issues with Halls, and it seems like they used the complaint as another reason to show him the door. It wasn’t the only reason, and he’s continued in his career.
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Yup, not at all “cancelled.” As is so often the case with these powerful – and especially white male – “victims.” Hell, they often fail upward.
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