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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9407750" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Sure, but again, the people calling that &quot;cancel culture&quot; aren't suffering anything different than those that call it &quot;cyber-bullying&quot; except that one group is getting called out for what they said or what they did, and the other group is being attacked for.... existing. I will fully agree that online harassment isn't a good thing, and shouldn't be encouraged, however, the guy who claims that &quot;ugly women&quot; don't have any place in society, and getting mobbed on social media, and bemoaning his being canceled is dealing with something very different than the woman game designer who receives rape threats for the crime of being a woman game designer and &quot;ruining the video game industry&quot;. She doesn't use the language of &quot;I am being canceled&quot;, that isn't how we refer to those incidents. To move this from the online space into a physical analogy, it is equally unacceptable for a mob to hospitalize a man for beating his wife and breaking her arm as it is for a mob to hospitalize a man for wearing a dress. Violence like that isn't acceptable. But we shouldn't pretend that the two men were hospitalized for the same reason, or that the two victims deserve equal consideration.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9407750, member: 6801228"] Sure, but again, the people calling that "cancel culture" aren't suffering anything different than those that call it "cyber-bullying" except that one group is getting called out for what they said or what they did, and the other group is being attacked for.... existing. I will fully agree that online harassment isn't a good thing, and shouldn't be encouraged, however, the guy who claims that "ugly women" don't have any place in society, and getting mobbed on social media, and bemoaning his being canceled is dealing with something very different than the woman game designer who receives rape threats for the crime of being a woman game designer and "ruining the video game industry". She doesn't use the language of "I am being canceled", that isn't how we refer to those incidents. To move this from the online space into a physical analogy, it is equally unacceptable for a mob to hospitalize a man for beating his wife and breaking her arm as it is for a mob to hospitalize a man for wearing a dress. Violence like that isn't acceptable. But we shouldn't pretend that the two men were hospitalized for the same reason, or that the two victims deserve equal consideration. [/QUOTE]

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