The problem is that anything can be "related to their job" if you're willing to stretch enough. For instance, by hitting PR notes like "do you want your company to be known as being associated with this kind of person."
People aren’t getting cancelled because they think taxes are 5% too high
To be charitable, I suppose what you mean is: "I don't believe gays/blacks are being genuine in their efforts to promote their agendas" and "there has been significant election interference, including against my preferred candidate (Trump|Clinton)."
Note that the latter belief is also widely held by those who preferred eg Clinton in 2016, including Clinton herself, who has loudly and proudly declared repeatedly that she would/should have been president but for election interference.
So if the latter belief is enough to get someone canceled from their job, and you support that, then I guess that includes about 90% of the population. I don't think you're being reasonable here.
As to the former belief, I think looking back at how Black Lives Matter has turned out should be enough to convince most reasonable people that some of the biggest/loudest agendas promoted over the past few years aren't genuine.
As to your last assertion, you're correct. No-one is getting canceled over minor quibbles over tax rates. I don't know anyone who is claiming that.
“No-one” is a pretty broad claim, yeah?
> including Clinton herself, who has loudly and proudly declared repeatedly that she would/should have been president but for election interference.
The point you make is interesting, but surely there are pretty big differences in those two situations? Are they really identical in any way? I would be curious to know why they are the same thing and can be compared with each other like this - from my point of view, I don’t think I could agree.
1: https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174...
Seems I heard this from his opponents during his term and I don't remember people losing their jobs over it. Also, does this include people who think 'nevermind democracy' for real? Communists, socialists?
What's happening is dangerous because there have been efforts to convince people that “I think you dont have the right to exist because you are gay or black or non christian “ == “nevermind democracy trump should be president even though he lost”. Once you see your opponent as a monster, treating them poorly is easy. When we abstract each other into caricatures through the filter of a screen, it becomes easy to say and do these things.
Neither. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756452
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarv...