Interesting. May be location, then. “What does 88 mean?” for me has almost the entire first page of results about white supremacists and hate symbols. Even the Wikipedia page for “88” has an entire subheading on it.
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Whoa, there, roll back a little bit…
Wait, what? There has been argument over this sort of happening well before 2020 and even the term “cancel culture” itself I’m pretty sure dates back before that. I have been hearing about people losing jobs/contracts/etc. over such things for years now.
I mean, Jimmy the Greek was 1988 … all this “cancel culture” horseshit isn’t anything new. It’s just got a shiny new brand and more exposure with the internet being on top of everything and anything.
What even happened in June of 2020, other than COVID?
George Floyd. Technically the incident was in May, but the protests were most significant in June.
WTF? George Floyd protests weren’t an example of cancel culture. That was an example of murder.
@Omar_Little, is that why you referenced that date?? Who was canceled? Floyd or Chauvin?
I fail to see any connection between the so-called cancel culture and the George Floyd protests. Did I miss people complaining that the cops who murdered him were victims of “cancel culture?”
There are two completely different things happening for completely different reasons. On one hand people were protesting years (centuries) of police misconduct directed at African Americans and other marginalized groups.
On the other hand, we have snowflakes complaining about having to face consequences for stupid things they say and do.(and often it’s not even the person facing the consequences that complains about it). At times we have had healthy debate about the extent of consequences in particular circumstances but it generally comes down to people exercising their freedom to distance themselves from people they find offensive.
ETA Rittersport ninja’d me and said it better.
Well, maybe more succinctly anyway.
I’m not saying that dating makes sense - it doesn’t, “political correctness” (“cancel culture” under a different name) has been around over 30 years by now - but I’ve seen people claim that that’s where it recently began. Briefly, the usual derivation goes: mass movement for racial justice in the wake of Floyd’s killing focused a lot of white liberals on microagressions and systemic racism, and so they (and a lot of black activists) started cancelling people and institutions that showed that behavior; this was far too much of a backlash for the actions of a couple bad apples.
Doesn’t have to be true to become a meme.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying it’s your position. “Cancel culture” has been around forever – blacklisting of Hollywood types in the Fifties due to their suspected Communist connections, taking the Smothers Brothers off the air for cracks about Nixon, Janet Jackson and the “wardrobe malfunction”, and so on and so forth.
Only now that it’s conservative white men getting canceled, it gets a new name and everyone gets the vapors.
It’s a bit like how the right wing meme appeared that “race relations were great in this country before Obama” - it’s a deliberate attempt to ignore history and portray what’s happening right now as the worst, most desperately unAmerican thing to ever have happened.
Dear me, dear me, it’s all in Orwell… what do they teach in these schools?
Think of it this way, @Novelty_Bobble, if instead of an unfamiliar expression it was a sentence from an unfamiliar language, you’d be expected to go translate that language into one you understand. Right?
That’s the way it’s always been here on the Dope and rightfully so. Use of foreign language is encouraged so as to confuse readers who aren’t “in the know.”
If you don’t know the official cool-kids’ shibboleths you only have yourself to blame. Off to the pit with you!