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AFLW 2024 - Round 4 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
I always find it weird how people set up a straw man they can argue against, so they never have a real discussion.
That's "the left" is it?
It's them being the push for climate action, gay marriage, boycotting the Cup, etc. Conspicuously silent on this one to the point where you wonder if they even consider it a problem.
You can find any number of articles on Google that talk about it.
I always find it weird how people pretend they don't understand that cancel culture exists despite being presented with a full explanation and dozens of examples.I always find it weird how people set up a straw man they can argue against, so they never have a real discussion.
I always find it weird how people pretend they don't understand that cancel culture exists despite being presented with a full explanation and dozens of examples.
Do you know anyone like that?
Sure. Does that mean cancel culture doesn't exist?You know about cancel culture as the victims of it tell you about it in their podcasts, newspaper columns and tv shows.
Which part do you consider to be in breach? If it's evidence, you haven't asked for evidence of anything, you asked for a sample article that would be a good example of my ideas, however I already stated what those were, well enough that we even began talking about them. I thought our brief chat was amicable enough before you abruptly abandoned it for some reason. Surely leaving a discussion would be the breach.I'm doing some research into critical literacy tonight (yep, on the internet), I came across this image and thought of you. Perhaps you could take some notes for future "discussions". This is the end of ours.
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Sure. Does that mean cancel culture doesn't exist?
What do you think about the professor who was hounded out of a job because he showed the 1965 version of Othello?
It was reported, so I guess it's fine?
He resigned, which is what happens to professors when their position becomes untenable.He was fired?
And this pretending there is no opposing argument thing. It sucks.don't understand that cancel culture exists despite being presented with a full explanation and dozens of examples.
He resigned, which is what happens to professors when their position becomes untenable.
Do you approve of the backlash? Do you think it was justified?
Pointing to the fact "he resigned" is a fig leaf.
Who's pretending?And this pretending there is no opposing argument thing. It sucks.
What's been presented to me?You have been presented with the opposing argument - that this is a situation as old as the hills, and is therefore not some new phenomenon to be labeled and laid at the feet of lefty activists.
Who's pretending?
If there's an opposing argument, go ahead and make it.
What's been presented to me?
I've acknowledged repeatedly that the impulse to "cancel" certains views, arguments or images isn't new. There are plenty of examples: Salman Rushie, Piss Christ, The Dixie Chicks.
The difference is that this impulse to "cancel" is no longer being deployed so much in defence of religious or conservative sensibilities. Rather, these illiberal tactics are being deployed in defence of new progressive orthodoxies, amplified by social media.
That's what's new.
Why do you pretend that your argument hasn't been rebutted countless times already?
I'm not sure. It may have been imprecise of me to say he resigned. I don't know that for a fact.So hes no longer employed there?
He didn’t resign.He resigned, which is what happens to professors when their position becomes untenable.
Do you approve of the backlash? Do you think it was justified?
Pointing to the fact "he resigned" is a fig leaf.
I'm not sure. It may have been imprecise of me to say he resigned. I don't know that for a fact.
That doesn't mitigate the impulse to have him removed, which is the issue.
The point is that he was no longer willing/able to teach a class after showing the film because of the backlash.
Do you approve of that backlash? Do you think it was justified?
That's a very straightforward question.