Mutual Cancellation
Mutual Cancellation
I don’t think cancellers understand a simple truth: cancellation can go both ways, and often does. I personally have cancelled many people because of their behavior towards me (and towards others). I will not have anything to do with these people; I will not do anything to help them; I won’t even read them. They have been removed from my syllabus. I think they should be deprived of employment and ostracized. If I run into them, I will flamboyantly shun them. I think they should be tarred and feathered. I wouldn’t lift a finger to protect them from the mob. That is what happens when you cancel a person—they cancel you back. History is a litany of reactive cancellation. Who now supports the cancellers of Galileo and Socrates, Spinoza and Russell? These people are now despised and remembered only for their evil deeds. Like the lynchers and slave holders. This is what will happen to today’s misguided zealots—or to put it plainly, vicious idiots. They will be cancelled, despised, reviled.
I understand your cancelling the cancellers, except for “I won’t even read them.” If you would have found them worth reading before they cancelled you, then, for your own benefit, shouldn’t you still read them?
I might have enjoyed talking to them before, but not now. That’s how moral disgust works. Not that I did get much out of reading them anyway.