Interesting distinction, I would have loved to see some more concrete examples of how you categorize them. It's funny how some language just becomes loaded and loses its original meaning, your description of excommunication almost reads exactly as I would understand the definition of virtue signaling.
Your point about both sides using it is well taken though. What I think makes many uncomfortable is going through people's past to hold them to account to today's standards. From there, a HUGE duty of care falls on the institutions of authority to properly weigh the evidence and severity of the crime. I keep thinking of James Gunn being fired by Disney after a bunch of keyboard warriors set out to expose past tweets from a different time in his life. Your own example of Jordan Peterson is a great one too from the other side of the spectrum. I don't agree with all of his points but he dared to have an opinion different from the mob, and they went batshit crazy about him. To my point, it's then on the universities to encourage and protect his speeches, rather than stopping them because they don't agree with the conclusions.
What I'm most repulsed by are the REASONS behind the phenomena. I'm talking about people being excommunicated because of unintentional slurs, usually imagined by a hypervigilant accuser.
it’s hard to cancel someone with tenure. - the case of Rima Azar may change that equation she was a tenure professor who was fired for holding the wrong views. The case is before arbitration- if she loses tenure is dead in Canada.
Its become a trend in our Universities across the country to deny certain people the fundamental rights that are with in our Constitution. Cancel culture has come from within these places of "higher education" as a result of that which is being taught and spread, much like the virus we are plagued with today. The Universities are in need of some ventilation to add fresh air and a breathable space with less chance of catching the brain eating virus that is circulating within the Universities walls. Only by allowing all views, whether you like them or not, can people come to sound and informative conclusions. If only one thought process is allowed in the halls then only malnourished, shrunken, and putrefied, brains can come out of these institutions. Its dangerous to any democratic and free nation and its detrimental to society as a whole. The infestation of this brain wasting disease then becomes a pandemic and the calamity about to unfold will be catastrophic for the entire population. Tenure does not mean you can not be removed, as with Evergreen, if they decide to turn on those within to feast, your as vulnerable as the next professor. I pray for this on a daily bases in the hope that soon they will eat all their own and purge the country and our Universities of this horrible disease once and for all. I do not care of what political affiliation you, these students, or any other person belongs, it should be unwelcome and demonized regardless of who partakes in it.
It would be helpful to understand the author’s definition of deplatforming. An interesting read otherwise on an important topic here in the age of Neo-Puritans
Interesting distinction, I would have loved to see some more concrete examples of how you categorize them. It's funny how some language just becomes loaded and loses its original meaning, your description of excommunication almost reads exactly as I would understand the definition of virtue signaling.
Your point about both sides using it is well taken though. What I think makes many uncomfortable is going through people's past to hold them to account to today's standards. From there, a HUGE duty of care falls on the institutions of authority to properly weigh the evidence and severity of the crime. I keep thinking of James Gunn being fired by Disney after a bunch of keyboard warriors set out to expose past tweets from a different time in his life. Your own example of Jordan Peterson is a great one too from the other side of the spectrum. I don't agree with all of his points but he dared to have an opinion different from the mob, and they went batshit crazy about him. To my point, it's then on the universities to encourage and protect his speeches, rather than stopping them because they don't agree with the conclusions.
What I'm most repulsed by are the REASONS behind the phenomena. I'm talking about people being excommunicated because of unintentional slurs, usually imagined by a hypervigilant accuser.
it’s hard to cancel someone with tenure. - the case of Rima Azar may change that equation she was a tenure professor who was fired for holding the wrong views. The case is before arbitration- if she loses tenure is dead in Canada.
Its become a trend in our Universities across the country to deny certain people the fundamental rights that are with in our Constitution. Cancel culture has come from within these places of "higher education" as a result of that which is being taught and spread, much like the virus we are plagued with today. The Universities are in need of some ventilation to add fresh air and a breathable space with less chance of catching the brain eating virus that is circulating within the Universities walls. Only by allowing all views, whether you like them or not, can people come to sound and informative conclusions. If only one thought process is allowed in the halls then only malnourished, shrunken, and putrefied, brains can come out of these institutions. Its dangerous to any democratic and free nation and its detrimental to society as a whole. The infestation of this brain wasting disease then becomes a pandemic and the calamity about to unfold will be catastrophic for the entire population. Tenure does not mean you can not be removed, as with Evergreen, if they decide to turn on those within to feast, your as vulnerable as the next professor. I pray for this on a daily bases in the hope that soon they will eat all their own and purge the country and our Universities of this horrible disease once and for all. I do not care of what political affiliation you, these students, or any other person belongs, it should be unwelcome and demonized regardless of who partakes in it.
Wow, what a great, clear, thoughtful piece. Very clarifying. Thanks!
It would be helpful to understand the author’s definition of deplatforming. An interesting read otherwise on an important topic here in the age of Neo-Puritans