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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Thanks, I'll have to remember this response the next time you are complaining about "cancel culture." "You don't like it? Push the boulder. The market cares not." Good one.
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If you want to have the most free and unfettered of markets, where it’s fair game to seek to destroy an opponent and shut down his message rather than engage it, expect the same in return.
This author is saying certain types of uses of a term are beyond the pale. Um, no. All is fair in total war. I don’t like it either, but the market cares not what I think any more than it does what the author thinks.
It’s quite clever, really. Mobs figure out how to pressure corporate lackeys to disown speakers they don’t like. The opposing side finds a way to hack the mob by using their own terms to delegitimize them. One hack returned with another.
Result? Extremes cancelling each other.
Maybe the marketplace is working just fine?
