mardi 4 février 2020

Twitter Mob Justice

I'm going to post a link to what is admittedly a very long YouTube video as a hook for this. I realize that many of you won't be able or willing to watch it all, so I'll try to give a brief outline of what's in the video.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8

The video comes from a YouTube creator named Natalie Wynn, a transgender woman who makes a lot of videos on transgender-related topics as well as other topics. Just to give you an idea of what to expect, the video currently has over 1.6 million views and the thumbs-up-to-thumbs-down ratio is 123K to 3K. The title of the video is Canceling and it's 100 minutes long, or about the length of a typical movie.

Anyway, it's about this whole phenomenon called "Cancel Culture", which is something that she recently experienced when she asked a controversial trans man named Buck Angel to read a few lines in one of her recent videos. Buck Angel is controversial because of perceptions that he holds "transmedicalist" views, and is therefore an enemy of nonbinary trans people.

In the video she also talks about another recent case not involving herself. And later, another case in which a person actually committed suicide after being "canceled".

Anyway, I've never experienced anything like this myself, since I'm not famous and since I generally prefer to remain anonymous on the internet. But it opened my eyes to just how vicious and seemingly petty these things can be. It goes beyond criticism into demands that "others in the community" also participate in boycotting/ostracizing/denouncing the person being "canceled" or face ostracism themselves. They usually start with someone saying something "problematic" but it could also be something as simple as offering support for someone else who is being "canceled" or failure to denounce them.


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