# Cancel Culture and Canceling versus consequences for actions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 8, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644 "2025-07-08T22:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644/1055 "2025-12-09T00:36:17Z")

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IASTR that GSG takes a smaller percentage than GoFundMe.

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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644/1056 "2025-12-09T00:48:16Z")

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Holy shit! What does that have to do with this thread, though? Thankfully it looks like he’s facing a lot more than _cancelling_:

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> A 30-year-old Florida man is facing up to a half-decade in federal prison after confessing to posting violent threats on social media that promised to decapitate Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, murder her “monkey children,” then eat the kids “for protein,” according to plea agreement papers reviewed by The Independent.

Also…

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> McQuade is an account executive at a tech company, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Well, he sure as shit won’t be by the time he gets out of prison - but that’s hardly _cancelling_.

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**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644/1057 "2025-12-09T00:57:07Z")

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This is the general consequences for free speech thread.

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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644/1058 "2025-12-09T01:15:12Z")

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> [@Zoobi](#):
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> This is the general consequences for free speech thread

Fair enough - my bad! Definitely on the consequence side of the equation then.

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