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You don’t know the core principles of the thing you want to cancel? What do you know about the thing you want to cancel?

That generally isn't necessary in cancel culture. Generic outrage suffices. /s

How are the core principles relevant? Look at outcomes.

Why would you ask someone who doesn't understand a concept to explain it?

You would certainly ask someone who despises a concept to explain what it is that they dislike. Major red flags if they cannot.

I don’t know about you, but I try avoid hating that which I do not understand.

Yes, but propaganda for intolerance requires that you hate something ill-defined, shifting, "other". Examples throughout this thread.