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Using the word "denigrate" would be a reason to cancel you for some very conscientious minds. It sounds too similar to, ya know. And you aren't even talking Chinese [1]

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...

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No stretch needed, this poster could definitely be cancelled for using that word.

"If you "denigrate" someone, you attempt to blacken their reputation. It makes sense, therefore, that "denigrate" can be traced back to the Latin verb denigrare, meaning "to blacken.""

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/denigrate

I was serious. No stretch needed.

I wouldn't describe these minds as conscientious so much as "illiberaly liberal"

Oh, yes, I was just citing the OP, it wouldn't be my choice.

I wonder if Illirik is brave enough to make a selfie with one of the yesterday-OK, today-awful Dr. Seuss books and publish it on the social networks. Just to test how many conscientious minds will try to get him fired.

Why would I take a selfie with a children's book containing racist caricatures? I don't have any of these books and certainly don't want any.

Your standard of racism must be very extensive if you consider said pictures racist.

IMHO they are just stereotypical, but engaging in visual stereotypes is not the same as racism.

I think the modern standard of racism is just being white:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/elena-guthrie/racism-white-...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/jul/03/raceintheuk....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/10/19/... ( https://archive.md/Tm3KK )

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/loreal-paris...

https://www.newsweek.com/kyle-korver-racism-white-people-nba...

Stereotypes? Maybe. I have not seen them. It sounds like people are describing racist stereotypes, and using racist stereo types is racism, surely?

This one was weird as it's saying that English has ownership over sounds. If it sounds similar to a bad English word then it's also bad, even if context is given.

Magical thinking at its best. The Middle Ages are back. You are not allowed to pronounce anything similar to the powerful incantation, lest the demons emerge. Regardless of context.

Of course, in practice, the demons are regular people with stones in their hands ...

So videoconference calls are modern seances ("Is anyone there?", "Can you hear me?"...), you tweet of the Devil and He doth retweets, ...

... we've managed to turn magic and superstition into reality, just not in a way we expected.

This is a very funny perspective, thank you :-)

Or, and this might be something to consider: this restructuring of of culture into groups of "good and bad culture" is something that happens each generation. Like the hippies against the old ideals, the 80 kids/punkers against the hippies, the smooth millennials against the 80-kids. Every generation did their own thing. We are getting old and do not subscribe to the new future. We are losing our childhood loves. They will disappear into the fold of history. Just like we will.

Historically, culture wasn't so quick to change. Typically, parents would be able to pass down their culture and traditions to children, instead of having society foist an entirely new culture onto their kids that's incompatible with what the parent grew up with.

This happened too many times in history to even name. I could sum some recent examples if you want. Do you want that?

Or as Shakespeare put it, "The Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

Voldemort!

This is the actual reason that the company I work for decided to standardise on “denylist” rather than “blocklist”...

I thought "blocklist" was the replacement for "blacklist".

Yup, try using the words niggle and niggardly in a public setting.

Absolutely. If illirik was sacked from their job and made destitute, would that be "just basic conscientiousness"?

Maybe illirik should consider that the cancel culture weapon could just as easily be turned on them.

Now I wish I was keeping the archives of all those cases where supporters of cancel culture got cancelled and they suddenly didn't liked it anymore.

I believe you don't have that archive because it doesn't exist. Ultimately people who are "supporters of cancel culture" most likely aren't explicitly that, they just don't agree with your definition of cancel culture [1]

Those people then receiving retribution for some action (whether they deem it reasonable or not) doesn't necessarily imply that they've come to see things your way.

[1] https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/undefined-cancel-game

I am surprised Jeff Bezos hasn't been canceled. He was attempting to cut deals with Muhammed bin Salman. There is photographic evidence of Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and Jeff Bezos cozying up to a regime that is anti-LGBT.

Bezos was chatting with MBS on WhatsApp before MBS allegedly hacked him. It seems more likely he wasn't hacked by MBS and the culprit was his girlfriend's brother. Maybe Jeff and MBS are due to mend their friendship?

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