Cancellations
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I think it's a bit ridiculous going back and erasing artefacts of the past unless they're extremely racist to the point it corrodes any other value. Racist beyond what was normal at the time. I mean even Marx has race essentialist assumptions about different populations.
I think there are clear issues with the things being pulled, but I'm not convinced pulling them's the right way to go. Apparently what Disney've done with some of their older material is stuck a disclaimer at the start making clear they're a product of their time and deeply flawed. That seems like a better approach to me.
The other thing this does is overlap with the decline of physical media as if physical media goes completely and everything's curated by companies like Netflix then removing something from these platforms is essentially removing it from existence.
The other thing this does is overlap with the decline of physical media as if physical media goes completely and everything's curated by companies like Netflix then removing something from these platforms is essentially removing it from existence.
A thread on sacrifices and Western individualism in the face of stuff like climate change, coronavirus and this might be an idea. There's clearly a lot of friction between people wanting the luxuries they're accustomed to and what needs to be done to deal with a bunch of the big issues facing society atm.
I'm wondering whether they're going to quietly reintroduce the stuff at a later date with a disclaimer of some sort "after a period of reflection" or whether they're gone for good.
Craner.
sufi
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Is Craner trolling us? I'm not so bothered about the obviously absurd stuff that could or should be dumped
There is this powerful but undirected social force which is a potentially more effective method of sorting out tyrants than conventional politics.
It seems like the current populism has connected with the alt-right/social conservatism currents very nicely and channeled them into ineffective top down old fashioned tyranny, now the backlash against that is playing out on the streets, achieving changes that weren't thought to be possible 2 weeks ago.
Our job is to work out how to use that to demolish our cultural and political foes
There is this powerful but undirected social force which is a potentially more effective method of sorting out tyrants than conventional politics.
It seems like the current populism has connected with the alt-right/social conservatism currents very nicely and channeled them into ineffective top down old fashioned tyranny, now the backlash against that is playing out on the streets, achieving changes that weren't thought to be possible 2 weeks ago.
Our job is to work out how to use that to demolish our cultural and political foes