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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8321450" data-attributes="member: 6915329">It's called &quot;consequences.&quot; People like to call it &quot;cancel&quot; because then they can say &quot;other people cancelled me,&quot; not &quot;I'm suffering the consequences of my actions.&quot;The difference between what's going on now and McCarthyism is that McCarthyism was based on almost nothing but fear. For the most part, the people who were blacklisted never actually did anything wrong but not fit a very specific definition of being a Proper American(TM). (And unsurprisingly a lot of people specifically targeted by McCarthyism were gay--the &quot;lavender scare&quot;--simply because as &quot;perverts,&quot; they'd be pro-Communism.) And McCarthyism was also engaged in other completely unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, like vaccines were a commie plot. In other words, there was absolutely nothing behind what McCarthy was doing but fear.Right now, people are actually, on record, saying actually and doing terrible things about other people, simply because those people are different in one way or another. There's a huge difference between arresting someone because of a crime you made up, and calling someone out and refusing to work with someone who has actually and publicly been a bigot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8321450, member: 6915329"] It's called "consequences." People like to call it "cancel" because then they can say "other people cancelled me," not "I'm suffering the consequences of my actions." The difference between what's going on now and McCarthyism is that McCarthyism was based on almost nothing but fear. For the most part, the people who were blacklisted never actually did anything wrong but not fit a very specific definition of being a Proper American(TM). (And unsurprisingly a lot of people specifically targeted by McCarthyism were gay--the "lavender scare"--simply because as "perverts," they'd be pro-Communism.) And McCarthyism was also engaged in other completely unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, like vaccines were a commie plot. In other words, there was absolutely nothing behind what McCarthy was doing but fear. Right now, people are [I]actually, on record[/I], saying actually and doing terrible things about other people, simply because those people are different in one way or another. There's a huge difference between arresting someone because of a crime you made up, and calling someone out and refusing to work with someone who has actually and publicly been a bigot. [/QUOTE]

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