On the “cancel culture”

There is some debate against what is called "cancel culture" in the English-speaking Internet world, and which in Europe has a much older name, or "excommunication". It is in itself a form of pack bullying, in the sense that the victim is "tried" by a "character assassination" mechanism, and when an angry crowd dies, he decrees the "damnatio memoriae". In practice, a lynching.

Orwell described this mechanism very well when, in 1984, he devised the "two minutes of hate" daily.

I see that the whole debate focuses on the alleged beneficial effects of this thing, while nobody (or almost) deals with the guarantees. These are the usual processes by which the radical left builds the tools that will allow the right to come to power. Nothing strange or new: radical right and radical left are in the "egg and chicken" condition, and those who waste time wondering who owes their existence to the other should consider instead that " both exist, or neither ".

Which, strictly speaking, makes the extreme right and extreme left two aspects of the same phenomenon. They are essentially two different sides of the same phenomenon

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The mechanism of "cancel culture" should be examined more in its phases, in its real application, to understand that it is a pre-civilized remnant of some social tribalism.

Let's go in stages.

  1. First, there must be a mass of angry people. For cancel culture to work, the masses must be extremely polarized, divided into hostile factions. In this way, and only in this, it is possible to accuse someone of having betrayed a certain ideal, a certain faction, a certain struggle, a certain revolution.

  2. This mass of angry people must be fascist. A mass of rabies is certainly fascist when it claims to be violent in defense, justifying the alleged harassment of each member personally to justify its violence. It means that if a woman is raped then ALL women will say they have been raped. If Floyd dies, then EVERY American Negro will say he was killed by the police at some point in his life. Every American Negro has been killed by the American police, and therefore has the right to come back to life and do anything. (corollary: BLM is a zombie apocalypse). For example, every Italian on the far left was personally beaten by an Israeli soldier, and his home in Hebron was destroyed. By the algebra theorem, if not in the realm, in the complex one: his imaginary house was destroyed, ninety degrees from all the rest.

  3. A race for purity is underway, and anyone is the sheriff of purity. So it happens that if speaking to a girl while listening to music on headphones is "rape" , the purest pure will purge you and she will say that this manual is too loose, because a girl could also listen music in power , humming it in one's mind. Dinque requires four telepathic notaries to certify the thing. Don't you have them? For the Inquisition, innocence is not an excuse. At the stake, and get out of the way.

  4. There are no written laws or legal certainties or defined procedures. Much less presumption of innocence. The process leading to canceling takes place according to unwritten laws that prohibit exactly what the accused does only because the accused has done it , which do not consider the accused's extenuating circumstances from the moment the accused pulls them into play , everything is evidence against the defendant including those in favor , everything that says the accusation is certainly true and does not need to be verified and everything says the defense is certainly false because the trial does not admit defense and the lawyer is subjected to the same trial for the sole fact of defending the accused .

Already the conditions for cancel culture to exist are very far from what we would call "civilization" and closer to what we would call "gang brawl in a bad high school". Or if you prefer, "tribal society without written laws".

At this point, the process goes live.

(Lobo, as usual, teaches us everything there is to know).

This is the "fair trial" idea that "generation Z" has in mind. A lynching followed by an excommunication, in a street trial.

And if a certain RAVIOLERIA95 says so , it must be really true.

I don't expect "generation Z" people to understand something practical. Even if I showed them the photos of the effects of this culture when applied by a mass of sheriffs other than you, they would say that the photo is not "cool", therefore it is not valid. The person of Generation Z, in fact, is not able to distinguish "cool" from "important".

The effects?

If you want to know why people find neo-fascists reassuring , the reason is very simple.

The fascist trials may seem much fairer.

Did the egg or the chicken come first? I do not know. But certainly both exist, or neither. So, they are two aspects of the same phenomenon.

And this explains why when the radical left takes to the streets, the fascists rise to power. They are two aspects of the same phenomenon, that is, the seizure of power of a fascist regime.