Way to Fight Cancel Culture; Stop Capitulating to It

Oh god, I suspect this may be a tad too political for Hacker News. And I apologise if that's the case.

But after hearing the StackOverflow stuff about that mod getting fired for pronouns, complaints about identity politics in companies like Google, and people getting their lives ruined over Twitter jokes, I thought I may as well post it anyway.

The people pushing this stuff are bullies, and like most bullies, are depending on people not fighting back/not cowing to their demands. By not giving in, most will back off eventually.

Same goes for a lot of these companies using dodgy DCMA notices and takedowns on YouTube. Most of them will not go forward with an actual lawsuit against a self hosted site or publication, since they know they legally don't have a leg to stand on. They just rely on the system being broken and take advantage of it.

Tell these people you won't do what they want, and most of these issues will go away.

Things make a lot more sense if you think of all the endless controversies as moral panics.

TL;DR: Harden the fuck up and learn to tell uptight moral crusaders of all stripes to fuck off.

I swear, if Peter Steele of Type O Negative were still alive he'd be laughing his ass off. He saw this shit coming in the 1990s when he wrote "We Hate Everyone":

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The left, they say I'm a fascist

The right calling me communist

Hate, hate, hate, hatred for all, one and all

No matter what you believe

We don't believe in you—and that's true, yeah

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https://genius.com/Type-o-negative-we-hate-everyone-lyrics

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