Reply To: “Cancel culture” as a weapon of war

Always_Ask_Questions,

“Avram, I think I understand what you are saying, but I think fretting about these possible side effects is sort of inappropriate in the view of ongoing carnage and risk of escalation.”

How exactly is this discussion inappropriate? I’m not providing succor to Russia, nor am I minimizing or denying the suffering of Ukrainians. Russia is committing atrocities and must be stopped. All I’m doing is pointing out the existence of a new weapon/technique/front of warfare that has been deployed. I thought this thread would go in the direction of a commentary on the increasing power of media, social media, and viral shaming to direct public behavior in a highly coordinated fashion, but it seems that discussing it at all must mean that I support the supervillian in a war of good vs evil, and thus am evil myself. What a distortion. On the contrary, you and jackk have convinced me that this topic is imperative to bring up.

“There are so many real issues here.”

Relative privation fallacy.