Social Media Outrage/Cancel Culture

[BigFatMeanie]

Thanks for sharing - that's an entertaining read. I kind of rolled my eyes at the n word justification.

Then he gets into forced vaccinations that will include microchips - though I'm disappointed there was no mention of Bill Gates, but he does get points for quoting the Bible and identifying this as the "mark of the beast". Now we're getting into something a little more interesting....

But when he got into talking about the atomic bomb not being real and just some elaborate hoax to control people - with films of atomic bomb tests from the 40's-60's being the product of elaborate special effects, which are still a military secret? Wow. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fire bombed, not a-bombed. Guy is on a roll!

And best for last - the fake moon landings.

Dude is a professor of physics and astronomy. OK.

Yeah, this cracked me up. A professor of physics and astronomy that thinks the moon's surface gets up to 700F and thus is glowing red hot during a lunar eclipse.

[MartyFunkhouser]

[BigPiney]

that was awesome

[falafel]

I love that. I want more of that guy's music.

[Donuthole]

I love that. I want more of that guy's music.

He’s on Spotify. Give “long txts” some spins. We’ve been jamming to it since he dropped it a couple weeks back.

[Jeff Lebowski]

The only thing worse than cancel culture is conservative idiots like Josh Hawley and Matt Gaetz whining about being cancelled when they get legit blowback for stupid stuff they do. Grrr...

[Clark Addison]

As many of you know, I work for a very large financial institution. Like most public companies, we generally have reacted very quickly to many of the social issues over the last year. While I know a lot of that reaction is based on PR, I am pretty happy with the way the company has positioned itself, both externally and internally. They have struck the right chords, but not done anything crazy.

Having said that, I have been amused over the last few months whenever I am putting together a presentation on one topic. When everything hit the fan in March/April 2020, we made a lot of changes to our underwriting in credit products, due to the obvious increased credit risk, and also suspended a ton of marketing efforts, either because they were no longer appropriate (e.g. an airline credit card), or to re-work messages (no messages implying that the most important thing in their life right now was to open a new DDA), or even thing as small as avoiding having pictures of people crowded together in marketing materials.

Anyway, we did all that, but then almost immediately started putting together plans on getting back to normal. All of these were under the corporate "Reignite" plan, and each LOB had their own reignite plans. Then, few months back, we were told to no longer use the term "Reignite" in these plans. After asking around a bit, I found out that it was decided to stop using reignite to make sure we did not evoke images of riots and burning cities. So now we are all about "re-entry" or "re-start", NOT about igniting anything.

[MartyFunkhouser]

The only thing worse than cancel culture is conservative idiots like Josh Hawley and Matt Gaetz whining about being cancelled when they get legit blowback for stupid stuff they do. Grrr...

Agreed. It isn't cancel culture if you do something stupid and there is a consequence associated with it.

[myboynoah]

As many of you know, I work for a very large financial institution. Like most public companies, we generally have reacted very quickly to many of the social issues over the last year. While I know a lot of that reaction is based on PR, I am pretty happy with the way the company has positioned itself, both externally and internally. They have struck the right chords, but not done anything crazy.

Having said that, I have been amused over the last few months whenever I am putting together a presentation on one topic. When everything hit the fan in March/April 2020, we made a lot of changes to our underwriting in credit products, due to the obvious increased credit risk, and also suspended a ton of marketing efforts, either because they were no longer appropriate (e.g. an airline credit card), or to re-work messages (no messages implying that the most important thing in their life right now was to open a new DDA), or even thing as small as avoiding having pictures of people crowded together in marketing materials.

Anyway, we did all that, but then almost immediately started putting together plans on getting back to normal. All of these were under the corporate "Reignite" plan, and each LOB had their own reignite plans. Then, few months back, we were told to no longer use the term "Reignite" in these plans. After asking around a bit, I found out that it was decided to stop using reignite to make sure we did not evoke images of riots and burning cities. So now we are all about "re-entry" or "re-start", NOT about igniting anything.

Did they fire the party or parties responsible for the "reignite" idea. If not, then nothing will change.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Agreed. It isn't cancel culture if you do something stupid and there is a consequence associated with it.

Yep. These knuckleheads have rendered the term essentially meaningless at this point.

[Bo Diddley]

Did they fire the party or parties responsible for the "reignite" idea. If not, then nothing will change.

[Commando]

Agreed. It isn't cancel culture if you do something stupid and there is a consequence associated with it.

THIS CONSEQUENCE CULTURE HAS TO STOP!!!

[wapiti]

Agreed. It isn't cancel culture if you do something stupid and there is a consequence associated with it.

Hawley has taken a page straight from Trump's playback. Make a mistake, don't admit you are wrong and own it. Whine, play the victim, and find someone to point a finger at.

[BigPiney]

Hawley has taken a page straight from Trump's playback. Make a mistake, don't admit you are wrong and own it. Whine, play the victim, and find someone to point a finger at.

I really don't like him.

[Moliere]

Hawley has taken a page straight from Trump's playback. Make a mistake, don't admit you are wrong and own it. Whine, play the victim, and find someone to point a finger at.

He's going to crumble. Very few people are as much of a sociopath as Trump. I may be wrong but Hawley will find a limit to his lying and then he'll crumble and (hopefully) someone reasonable takes his place.