Your predictions on who/what is next to be "canceled"
Jul 6, 2020 15:25:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 15:25:58 GMT -5
Sightly off topic, regardless of my own opinions here (my opinions on politics and culture aren't very interesting), the real stress here, for me anyway, is that some people in my circle try to make way too many conversations about contentious political/cultural issues. I have a, mmm, relative who cannot avoid steering any conversation towards the current POTUS. It doesn't matter that I didn't vote for him and won't be voting for him in November; I still have to listen to the red-meat rants.
What annoys me is that, even when I agree in general terms (e.g. racism is bad), I feel like I'm being forced to think in a certain way and only pay attention to certain issues.
For example, I "cancelled" a friend I'd had since our early 20s (we're both over 35 now) because the friend said something about Jews exploiting the Holocaust. Sure, we're all entitled to our opinions, the government can't censor those, etc. But I don't have the time and patience to deal with bigots.
When I told the relative about the cancellation, their response was "MaYBe YoUR FRIend WAs CrITIcizINg ISraeL!" As if the Israelis are the only bad actors in the region, or even the worst.
But then there was some incident in the relative's community in which a nonwhite immigrant family said something about some dumb thing someone in the US had said to them, and someone's response was "Why don't you go back?" The relative was out for the blood of whoever had said "Why don't you go back?" We got text after text on the topic.
There is no rule that says a person has to be equally sympathetic to all groups. It's probably impossible for a person to be like that.
Nevertheless, I have a real eye roll for someone who's like, "Six million dead, oh well," but then is like, "Kill! Kill! Kill!" if someone of a more favored group is the target of a dumb comment.
But I guess that would get me cancelled, too.
What annoys me is that, even when I agree in general terms (e.g. racism is bad), I feel like I'm being forced to think in a certain way and only pay attention to certain issues.
For example, I "cancelled" a friend I'd had since our early 20s (we're both over 35 now) because the friend said something about Jews exploiting the Holocaust. Sure, we're all entitled to our opinions, the government can't censor those, etc. But I don't have the time and patience to deal with bigots.
When I told the relative about the cancellation, their response was "MaYBe YoUR FRIend WAs CrITIcizINg ISraeL!" As if the Israelis are the only bad actors in the region, or even the worst.
But then there was some incident in the relative's community in which a nonwhite immigrant family said something about some dumb thing someone in the US had said to them, and someone's response was "Why don't you go back?" The relative was out for the blood of whoever had said "Why don't you go back?" We got text after text on the topic.
There is no rule that says a person has to be equally sympathetic to all groups. It's probably impossible for a person to be like that.
Nevertheless, I have a real eye roll for someone who's like, "Six million dead, oh well," but then is like, "Kill! Kill! Kill!" if someone of a more favored group is the target of a dumb comment.
But I guess that would get me cancelled, too.