Cancellations
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
To be honest I probably weakened my argument by mentioning Nina. I mean, whatever her true feelings about "pan-Turkic far-right paramilitary groups", having anything to do with Daniel Miller by that point surely spelled career suicide.
craner
Beast of Burden
You will always find a place, even if it is on Taki’s Magazine.
craner
Beast of Burden
It was only a mischievous joke, John. Sorry.
john eden
male pale and stale
No worries - it was a genuine lol too
Nina does still read Dissensus occasionally and so potentially do her fervent critics though so best to set the record straight.
luka
Well-known member
Sufi on a soapbox before a baying mob, calling for your head
sufi
lala
@craner they cancelled the dog!
www.theguardian.com
Dambusters dog's racial slur gravestone altered by RAF
Dog’s name was on headstone at base of 617 Squadron, which carried out wartime raid
www.theguardian.com
john eden
male pale and stale
Here is Class War member Andy Murphy on the news after the poll tax riot describing the rioters as heroes.
There was an attempt to sack him from his job at Hackney Council but this was unsuccessful.
I honestly don't know what would happen with that now. Certainly Ian Bone has been clear that they probably wouldn't get away with publishing the stuff they did then now.
comelately
Wild Horses
In a way it makes sense for almost everyone to get cancelled sooner rather than later - Sa Ta Na Ma and all that.
How is everyone going to be famous for 15 minutes now that noone goes 'down the dumper' to use a much missed phrase from my Smash Hits reading pre-teens? People need to be fucked off, and cancel culture is one way to do that.
How is everyone going to be famous for 15 minutes now that noone goes 'down the dumper' to use a much missed phrase from my Smash Hits reading pre-teens? People need to be fucked off, and cancel culture is one way to do that.
entertainment
Well-known member
It's so ridiculous that one. Good example of how this monomaniacal fixation on theory and language pulls minor rifts into unbridgable gaps.
Two camps who in the grand scheme of things are way more allies than enemies, propped op against each other in a neverending battle for the one and only absolute correct consciousness.
craner
Beast of Burden
To all lawyers reading: it was a joke!
comelately
Wild Horses
I should at this time point out that my recent essay is somewhat of a philosophical defence of cancel culture, albeit a defence against 'free speech absolutism' rather than me making a positive case for it. Yes Nina Power is name dropped!
I will probably reversion it in a couple of weeks as a longer, more free-standing piece but for now -
I will probably reversion it in a couple of weeks as a longer, more free-standing piece but for now -
entertainment
Well-known member
I will try to read it after work but right off the bat, I'm wary of any philosophical treatments of 'culture'. Don't see how you can do that without abstracting away what it's really about.