Because even stepping out of line just a bit (you dont have to say something extreme like "kill all niggers", you could literally say some shit like " I dont think kids should transition"), and thats enough for you to get shunned and shit on by twitter lefties. Leftists cant tell the difference between your average stormfront user, a normal trump-voting conservative, and a person who just wants to grill. That is because to leftists, everyone who isnt them is all the same. Leftists like to say that "One side wants equality, and one side wants to kill all black people", but even questioning things like anti-white shit in media is enough to get you labelled as the side that "wants to kill all black people". Sorry for pointing out the obvious, I just wanted to share my thoughts. That is because I saw a leftists on a website the other day saying shit like "centrists are blocking the path to true equality and are no better than white supremacists", and that leftiism is the only moral rational way.
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Cancel culture is bitter, resentful people looking for reasons to get offended, and go around finding them, and then get offended by them. That's the only way to describe it I can think of without wholesale lifting John Cleese's discussion on it.
It makes useless people feel like they're doing good, even when all they are doing is ruining someone for something they said maybe decades ago. As the op pointed out, it doesn't even have to be something horrible. Just whatever they feel is not currently the good thoughts. Which they get to dictate by cancelling anyone who says something they don't like.
Then they'll have the nerve to turn around and say that it isn't real, or that they self censored. Of course this was after caving to pressure that certainly didn't exist and certainly wasn't from them. Bonus points for someone apologizing to make this go away, only to realize they just wholesale let them into their house to further control and destroy them.
Or they'll say someone wasn't really cancelled because they can still speak elsewhere. Y'know, just not on social media anymore, and with a big chunk of their revenue gone because advertisers dumped them, or they got fired, and for the people who liked whomever just got canceled's content to find a new venue for it wherever they set up again, to inevitably become a target of constant cancelling because they're now bad people who did bad things.
It's always someone else's fault that bad things happened. Y'see, all they had to do was think, talk, and be exactly like the good people who just screwed someone's life over. The old no bad tactics, just bad targets dodge.
Their arguments for doing it hold no water as today's lens changes so damn quick it's inevitable that everyone will get cancelled over something innocuous that is now bad, but before was just some off handed comment decades ago.
It's all so damn tiresome at this point.
I think this is an important point about what motivates people to join a witch hunt. They really have malicious desires in their hearts — the desire to hurt some one, to feel the thrill of having the power to destroy someone's life.
They can't admit this to themselves. But when somebody finds a witch, hooo, boy! Now they have a justification to be as nasty as they've always wanted to be, but under the cover of "doing good."
I always think of this quote from Aldus Huxley: