I do not have the words to explain why and how much I hate cancel culture. The removal of debate is clearly the easiest way to bring about division in society. Since when did a differing opinion to the mob mean that a human& #39;s entire work must be ignored and life destroyed?
There must be room for difference or it is simply another form of tyranny.

If a person cannot be allowed to express a different view without somebody else deciding that they should be socially outcast then why would they do it?
What if people disagree? I disagree with Elon Musk a lot and I say so. I think his views are dangerous on multiple topics. I don& #39;t want him cancelled. The thing is that he has a supporting mob.

And that& #39;s the point isn& #39;t it.

If you& #39;ve got the bigger, more vocal mob, you win.
So maybe, just maybe, cancel culture favours existing large and vocal online communities that generate mobs.

Wouldn& #39;t it be interesting to consider why there aren& #39;t so many mobs for certain groups?

Maybe consider groups that have suffered mental and physical abuse.
It& #39;s not too hard a leap to realise that some groups have significant power in this online world...

... and other groups have to rely on ally mobs.

Because having a differing opinion to the "mob" on any social media is vicious.

Why the hell would anyone willingly do that?
Two answers spring to mind:

They are either ideologically opposed to the idea - happens a lot.

Or they are *genuinely* holding a differing opinion.

The ideological person should be ignored - zero point in cancelling them as it& #39;s a badge of honour.
Canceling someone who genuinely holds a differing viewpoint to you *simply for holding that view* is, in my view, totally wrong.

Engage with them, try to change their mind, or at the very least *understand their position*.
The majority of the time now, when I watch someone in the process of being cancelled, I feel a huge amount of sadness for that person.

Because feeling like the world is against you must be one of the worst feelings imaginable.

And, no, almost nothing deserves that feeling.
I have no idea how to stop the cancelling but it needs to be stopped somehow.

It& #39;s making life worse not better.

It& #39;s making us less tolerant not more.

It& #39;s making politics more divisive not less.

It& #39;s making people more horrible not less.
I guess I did have the words
And for the avoidance of all doubt, this is *not* a subtweet or thread defending *anybody* currently or recently being attached by a Twitter mob.
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