People have always boycotted companies. We buy from the companies we want to support. That's how the market works.
The most dangerous aspect of cancel culture, IMO, is companies cancelling customers. There have always been cases where a business has to cut off a damaging relationship with a customer, or kick someone out of a store, but generally the customer is king. (in Japan: customer is god)
The new trend of companies refusing service to supposedly controversial people is a dangerous shift of power from the individual to the corporation. (another flavor of that is entertainment producers intentionally ignoring what their fans want)
This is just a T-shirt store but it becomes dangerous when platforms, banks, and airlines start doing it.
The inevitable conclusion of such actions is a completely divergent society, where the left has their companies, banks, utilities, etc., and the right has theirs, with no intermingle. We might as well fully segregate and balkanize, we're softcoring it already.
Keep in mind that G&G are the same people who will shit all over stuff they hate but will continue to give it money and views because they're addicted to it.
People have always boycotted companies. We buy from the companies we want to support. That's how the market works.
The most dangerous aspect of cancel culture, IMO, is companies cancelling customers. There have always been cases where a business has to cut off a damaging relationship with a customer, or kick someone out of a store, but generally the customer is king. (in Japan: customer is god)
The new trend of companies refusing service to supposedly controversial people is a dangerous shift of power from the individual to the corporation. (another flavor of that is entertainment producers intentionally ignoring what their fans want)
This is just a T-shirt store but it becomes dangerous when platforms, banks, and airlines start doing it.
Platforms, banks and airlines are ALREADY doing it.
The inevitable conclusion of such actions is a completely divergent society, where the left has their companies, banks, utilities, etc., and the right has theirs, with no intermingle. We might as well fully segregate and balkanize, we're softcoring it already.
Where have you been? Banks and credit processors have been deplatforming people for "wrong think" for the past several years now.
Yeah I worded that weird, but I'm aware. :)
Can't remember if the first big canary was Alex Jones or Milo Yiannopoulos.
It was probably both, but I totally get what you mean.
Keep in mind that G&G are the same people who will shit all over stuff they hate but will continue to give it money and views because they're addicted to it.