Cancel culture can strike anyone at any time. I feel like we went through years of cancel culture and nobody really raise an eyebrow, now suddenly it's a problem. Cancel culture is awful no matter what it's about.
Holy hell, he was fired for posting a joke on Twitter? In particular, a joke that is meant to call attention to a lack of sympathy for victims of war?<p>Cancel Culture is undoubtedly having a profound chilling effect on free speech. If only there were a way to measure it.
Cancel culture is cancel culture. But what's the idea that makes it bad? It's not over a protected class which we do deem worthy generally but over political views which are not uniformly considered protected.<p>Why shouldn't free people have the right to freely associate as they would like? Shunning is just the free expression of association, particularly the lack thereof.<p>Though if I'm honest, I thought political views are protected in California.
Why is work like this nowadays? A company I work with has an internal global Yammer instance. It's been filled with people commenting very polarizing opinions on this topic. Perhaps magnified because we have employees in affected countries.<p>I wish I could just turn it off, but I get email notifications of it, and the platform is beneficial to other parts of my/our work (announcing new features on a tool I work on)