https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/style/cancel-culture.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/style/cancel-culture
What’s cancel culture really like? Ask a teenager. They know.
By Sanam Yar and
The article is a collection of examples: I chose the fifth “tale” to represent the point of the article, which to me, is this: Kids today are filtering the world through some subjective lenses which blur reality. Gone mad? Nope… just cancelled.
From the nyt article:
It was orientation day for freshmen at Sarah Lawrence College, where one new student was unnerved by a social justice group’s presentation. The presenters discussed pronoun use and called on the entering freshmen to “‘battle heteronormativity and cisgender language,’” the student said.
Even if you accidentally misgendered someone, the new students were told, you needed to be either called out or called in. (“Called in” means to be gently led to understand your error; call-outs are more aggressive.) The presenters emphasized that the impact on the person who was misgendered was what mattered, regardless of the intent of the person who had misgendered them.
The freshman thought back to a time when her father had misgendered a friend of hers. Her father had asked her to apologize on his behalf. She did. “‘I only get mad when people intentionally try to misgender me because they feel like they have to correct who I am,’” she recalled her friend saying.
Sarah Lawrence has fewer than 1,500 undergraduates. One upperclassman she became friends with said that she had been canceled in her own freshman year.
But, this upperclassman said, the politics enforced through cancellation don’t always fit neatly into the social dynamics of college.
“I think where it loses me, we’re taking these systems that are applying huge abstract ideas of identity’s role and we’re shrinking it into these interpersonal, one-on-one, liberal arts things,” the upperclassman said.
Among the upperclassman’s friend group now, the idea of cancellation is “basically a joke.” Too many people had been canceled. At a recent party the upperclassman had attended, one guy said, “‘If you haven’t been canceled, you’re canceled.’”
There are even more outrageous examples than this. For some reason, I can only link the image. (I think “no subscription” is the reason.)
Which reminds me: It is an honor and privilege to be able to read and comment here, trading comments with some really smart people. At one time, I would have suggested reading this blog online as being a right, since speech being free and all. But, we all have come to realize that rights, while bestowed independently by our Creator, are almost meaningless unless exercised by a group of like minded bodies. There are a few blogs out there similar to TBP, but not any with the kind of long term stubborn supporters like Jim Quinn has accumulated here.
So, I’m hoping a few folks realize the only way to make any real noise is to have a platform from which to blast thoughts.
Jim Quinn provides that platform. And, platforms, unlike opinions and words, cost money.
I hope everyone finds a few dollars to further the cause.
Jim Quinn – 
P.O. Box 1520, Kulpsville, PA 19443
Day 15 of 54. St. Jude.
I don’t subscribe to the New York Times, so I couldn’t link the whole article. I am inviting my friend Paula to read this and comment because she has two really bright young adult kids who grew up sane in an insane world. Perhaps she can help us understand how to use Cancel culture to Cancel the idiots!
“‘…battle heteronormativity and cisgender language,’” the student said.
I like to respond to such statements by utilization of word strings free of any possible misunderstanding and gender assignations:
“And just what in the motherfuck Hell are you talking about you brain-dead fucking moron?”
See, no heteronormativity nor any hurtful cisgender language.
All the kids 30 and under that I know laugh at this shit and despite all the disconnect, and they are more connected and inquisitive than ever.
The political ship has capsized, because the techo kids have have melted the control grid and now see the back of the theater and I’m not sure either party fully realizes it yet. The political class is dying. Things like unmanned battleships, drones, and [fake] AI their own kids build and design won’t save them. Thanks kids.
But their heads will still pop at your acknowledgement of their absolutely insane thoughts.
Their reactions to people disagreeing with them is disturbing. I taught my son at age 2 and 1/2 that tantrums in public for a toy would be punished immediately, outside in our car. One tantrum; lesson learned.
Kids today are all reward all the time or they will squall.
My point in posting the single example was not only that such a group behavior exists which is basically “shunning” a person or treating them as if they no longer exist, but that all of these terms are commonly spoken with these strange newly invented meanings associated.
It is a tower of continuing babble…
Yeah, I’m similarly confused…when they say “cisgender” is that like your “sister”? And why would you want to “battle heteronormativity” if that word means being heterosexual is “normal”, because regardless of what you spoiled little brats think, if you’re not heterosexual you’re perverted.
So, there’s a “battle” against normalcy and heterosexual thoughts. Dam, things are even worse than I thought on college campuses.
The other examples of the Cancel Culture idea are really even more extreme, but I thought the example I chose helped show the strangeness of the college culture.
“‘battle heteronormativity and cisgender language,’”
When a freshman hears this shit it’s time to drop all your courses and go to school somewhere else.
I think it is everywhere… I think there are few “safe havens” in the world of academia.
….therefore, GTFO of academia.
If you’re near going to college, look at becoming an electrician or something useful, instead of obtaining a grossly overpriced college degree of dubious economic value.
Sarah Lawrence sounds more like a mediocre bakery. Fitting, I guess, for all the little cupcakes.
“I protect myself by refusing to know myself.”
― Floriano Martins
The politically correct silliness is just about everywhere now.
Marxist-tards don’t exactly blast thoughts.
They’re more like the tailpipe of a worn out diesel.
I couldn’t make heads or tails of the newspeak in that article.
I think is means we should never have stopped burning witches.
Could be wrong.
But Which are the Witches.
There was a story on local/regional news this a.m. about how Oklahoma released a big batch of nonviolent women felons (drug charges). There were 450 released.
They showed this big fat white butch lesbian waddling out to be hugged by her family, (her younger brother looked less than thrilled in my opinion to get her/it back – I watch faces on the sidelines for cues.) Why, out of all the nonviolent criminals released did they pick that single one?
To promote an image of the poor nonviolent women felons… some people might think they are all butch lesbians. Are they?
I think an image was being projected. I’m sure the “gatekeepers” who asked for the story told them what to look for regarding film footage. It is how it is DONE.
Better to fake burn them, like they did in Salem.
Then you can profit from the notoriety for centuries without having to actually off anyone.
Like Epstein.
That was my point… it was a NYTimes article a few days ago (much longer in the original) and it contained several examples of almost nonsensical situations described as “Cancel Culture.”
I noticed my son using words in contexts which made no sense. Asked him to explain and ended up realizing a whole new vocabulary is evolving around the technical world.
This Cancel Culture seems to be an old variant of putting one’s hands over ones ears and eyes and refusing to acknowledge a person, much like folks do me now around here.
The problem, of course, is that children and young people are so confused about who they are supposed to be, lacking grounding in moral code or community standards. So, they exhibit varying degrees of sadness, loneliness (an article here just yesterday here about teen loneliness), and behaviors to SEIZE attention like that pair in Columbine. It probably wasn’t yet called “Cancel Culture” but I’m sure they were ostracized and called “weird” and ignored. Until they were no longer ignorable.
Call me old-fashioned, but Cancel Culture doesn’t exist except in the minds of the people who encourage the sort of mass confusion and misunderstanding we see in the world. Newthinking and Newspeak are intentionally misleading.
In the beginning was the Word. That led to communication and relationship, which created Community, sort of.
We need a way to get back to Community on a national level. We need to Cancel the Cancel Culture.
Only God can cancel a person. Only.
Beg to differ MG. The State can also “cancel” a person with terrifying effectiveness.
And The State’s awful power to do so increases as the capabilities of technology advances.
Why battle whats normal?
Need a battle against mental illness and marxism.
I think this idea of “Cancel Culture” is a way for people in power to find young people with mental illness in order to drug them and use them.
Let’s say I agree.
That will end in a flaming ball of shit very shortly, just like the fake Jewish #metoo psyop which has already crashed and burned.
Forget 9/11
Get it out of your fucking head.
All that matters is whether children and women buy into #metoo or not. Well, MANY didn’t, and the sooner it’s ALL, is the sooner this ends. Tampa gets it, but everyone else here seems to be either delusional or playing stupid.
A certain percentage of the kids in any school and NEARLY ALL OF THEM outside and on the fringes of the school will resist by necessity.
Oh my, they are already growing a thick skin and backbone… BY NECESSITY.
Anyone watch Charlie Kirk get smoked like a split pig on the barbecue in NH?
It wasn’t old fogies torching him intellectually.
It was kids in their teens and 20s.
We used to call “Cancel Culture” a Boycott.
Are people really capable of a Boycott? Especially if it is INCONVENIENT?
Yep.
The British trucker strike a decade or two back showed everyone who was paying attention who was still in charge if it really every came down to blows.
They boycotted the government and pissy old hoax-factory England almost went under in week.
It was a big scandal because unless my reading is wrong, only like 12% of trucks were idled and only for like 7 to 10 days and the system almost shit itself.