Social Media Outrage/Cancel Culture

[swampfrog]

Harper's just comes out and prints it while arguing that context matters.

[swampfrog]

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[All-American]

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I have a law school friend that ends the book on the page where the guy walks off with the money, saying "you can't teach a sneech." To him that is the morality lesson of the book. His kids have no idea there are pages that follow.

[wuapinmon]

The University of Texas is going to be in the news, I imagine, a lot, over some emails wealthy donors sent to the administration about "The Eyes of Texas."

[swampfrog]

I have a law school friend that ends the book on the page where the guy walks off with the money, saying "you can't teach a sneech." To him that is the morality lesson of the book. His kids have no idea there are pages that follow.

I'm not sure he's wrong. At least in the sense that you may be able to teach individual sneetches, but as a group the sneetches apparently will always be sneetches.

[Uncle Ted]

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THAT'S RACIST!

[Joe Public]

Our school district rolled out a "No Place for Hate" week this week. Our high schooler came home with an assignment to keep a "slur journal" in which she is supposed to write every insensitive slur she hears on TV/social media over the next week.

[Pelado]

Our school district rolled out a "No Place for Hate" week this week. Our high schooler came home with an assignment to keep a "slur journal" in which she is supposed to write every insensitive slur she hears on TV/social media over the next week.

Wouldn't she be making a place for hate in the journal?

[smokymountainrain]

Our school district rolled out a "No Place for Hate" week this week. Our high schooler came home with an assignment to keep a "slur journal" in which she is supposed to write every insensitive slur she hears on TV/social media over the next week.

when i was in high school i had an eccentric teacher - his name was jc smith - who taught a class called social awareness or something along those lines. it was a class that only he taught and, iirc, he had to get i approval from the district or something to create the class. i'll never forget one of the assignments was for us to write down all the ethnic slurs we could think of and he'd give a prize for first, second and third place in terms of who could name the most. as a racist teenage from lily white utah, it was one of the most enjoyable assignments i was ever given. i took second place.

pretty sure that dude ended up being fired at the end of that year or not long after.

[Commando]

Matt Gaetz is outraged that some Dr. Seuss books were cancelled, mainly bc that's his girlfriend's favorite author

[frank ryan]

Our school district rolled out a "No Place for Hate" week this week. Our high schooler came home with an assignment to keep a "slur journal" in which she is supposed to write every insensitive slur she hears on TV/social media over the next week.

I don't like the name of the assignment, but I think it's a good one. It could be pretty sobering to try and keep track of all the those kind of things that are part of someone's media diet.

[BlueK]

This is interesting showing all the recent flat out false crap circulating on social media right now.

https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-shootings-media-social-media-coronavirus-pandemic-b9f8724f39dfa9d55af4e84898e7d937

[swampfrog]

Deeper dive into cancel culture in The Atlantic

[old_gregg]

Deeper dive into cancel culture in The Atlantic

oh brother. this is another flavor of the pmrc and satanic panic, only this time actually bad people like harvey weinstein and larry nassar are being held accountable.

[SeattleUte]

oh brother. this is another flavor of the pmrc and satanic panic, only this time actually bad people like harvey weinstein and larry nassar are being held accountable.

Anne Applebaum won the Pulitzer for writing about Gulags. The article is worthwhile because it comes from her.