it's just pure poltical/ideological tail behind the legs super cowardice. an impermissivieness, terror of multiculturalism & horror that the autocratic system might be disturbed by alternate views. bed wetted terror of weakling leaders.
The net effect is the same though: the targets are deprived of their platform and their income.
Nope. If millions of people want you out of the public sphere that's different from a few politicians deciding they want you out of the public sphere. Saying those are the same is incredible short sighted and wrong. For example, the "braying twitter mobs" can't dis-appear anyone, or put them on a no-fly list.
There's some serious fucked up 1984 oceania was always at war with Eastasia shit going on in this econist pueces & these threads. the production, that there are similar forces, is horseshit. society expressing it's democratic view of whats ok versus leaders forcing cancellation, mandating what culture can be without any will of the people- one leads clearly to heaven & i like jefferson swear i will forever stand against tyranny. i refuse that hell. serious propoganda mind bending shit, bending way over to accomodate low petty stupid blunt authoriarianism.
to be clear, there are hella problems with inverted totalitarianism. there are dangers of mob rule, of dumber populist senses. but holy shit, the amount of efforts i see in these threads to horseshoe the issues around, to say that the two problems are the same, regardless of whether it's a few projecting narrow minded stupidity or a masser body- it's ignorant & stupid in the extreme to say these are at all the same. sure there may be some symptoms. but fuck this apologia, fuck saying they are the same, fuck this so much. one could not work harder to sabotage democracia.
What makes you think the CPP isn't "canceling" because those people are being "bad"?
It's actually the same. It's silencing people who don't adhere to an ideology.