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I'm just so offended that you would economically harm all the good people working at EBay due to political stances they might not even agree with. People are so reactionary these days. This is the real cancel culture.

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Is this sarcasm? eBay is a publicly traded multi-billion dollar corporation. If they do something I hate, why would I ever shop there again?

Yes, it is very clearly sarcasm. "I'm just so offended" is your tip-off.

Honestly I can't tell anymore. Feel like I'm in crazy land whenever I fall into a thread like this.

Yeah, fair enough!

No I'm dead serious, you are actually doing the thing you are claiming to prevent. There's a new Red Scare going around and it's costing people their livelihoods. First Ebay canceled, then all American companies, then all of America.

Don't want to be a mouth piece for a 50 year old children writer? Canceled! It's basically just virtue signaling, but the effects are huge.

Going to any Christian owned businesses? Are they canceled too because they burned Galio's books? Rank hypocrisy. Go my tribe I guess.

Dude, if US companies want to engage in this woke nonsense, then I quite frankly think they deserve to be cancelled. This country is honestly so pathetic, IMO, in the way that we pretend to be a "free speech" nation and yet in reality live under a woke thought police that has taken over through Twitter. I will eagerly and gladly take my business to Chinese companies, as not only do they stand for more traditional values that I tend to align with, but they are also innovating more rapidly (probably because they just focus on the tech and don't have to worry about every little thing they say).

If enough people do it they will back peddle.

Big tech really needs to get the memo that they need to be a neutral party.

You're joking, right?

The same argument was used to stop embargoes against apartheid South Africa...that was somewhat explicable given the poverty of South Africa, using it for a multi-billion tech company. Interesting take.

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