Can't Cancel Ourselves Into A Better World w/ Ben Burgis
May 23, 2021
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"But the underlying phenomenon is real. As I’ve argued elsewhere, the toxic cocktail of neoliberal social atomization, for-profit social media platforms that incentivize our worst impulses, and a sense of powerlessness that can be temporarily sated through online pile-ons and attempts to get people fired or de-platformed for doing or saying bad things has produced a culture of mutual surveillance and hair-trigger denunciation that infects the entire political spectrum.
It’s not hard to find examples of right-wingers piling onto a random Starbucks barista and trying to get her fired for saying “f— Trump” or centrists engaging in online mass-denunciations of Berniecrats based on dubious accusations of racism or sexism. But as a leftist, I’m particularly concerned with the way these trends play out on the Left. When leftists are reluctant to give each other the benefit of the doubt and quick to turn on each other, that undermines our ability to pursue a collective project to change the world for the better."*
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