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It's the same impulse that drove the Covington Catholic mob. People want to hate, and being served up someone who we're told is a fair target for hating is too irresistible. https://twitter.com/beyondreasdoubt/status/1265099388004818946
Watching people online gleefully seeking the destruction of someone they only know from 20 seconds of video is one of the most disturbing things to come out of the advent of the Internet.
The reason cancel culture is popular is because in an age where everyone has a virtual platform it's much easier to signal virtue by angrily tearing down someone else than it is to be virtuous.
The wrong lesson people took away from the Covington episode (and maybe even this dog walking instance) was that they should have waited longer before starting a lynch mob. When what the should have learned is not to lynch mob at all even if the reality was as bad as it looked.
If the Twilight Zone was done today, there'd be a cool episode where everyone was made to publicize the 20-seconds of their life when they were at their worst and have the world judge their entire life and character based on that brief moment.
The main character would go through life with the smug satisfaction that he's better than everyone else up until his turn comes up.
And what's worse about cancel people is the pretense that they're doing this to make the world a better place.
No you're not. You've been given license to be shitty to someone else and you're enjoying it. (Whether that person was shitty to someone else doesn't change that).
No you're not. You've been given license to be shitty to someone else and you're enjoying it. (Whether that person was shitty to someone else doesn't change that).
You got someone's pet and livelihood taken away. Where do you want your medal pinned?
