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View submission: Philosophical takes on cancel culture
Thank you for pointing out that people also did not like stuff in the 1950s.
In fact, I believe that people have always not liked some stuff. When people have not liked some stuff, they have voiced that opinion. In some cases, not liking stuff literally kills people.
Socrates was saying stuff, and the stuff that was said a lot of people didn't like. So they cancelled Socrates. Since Socrates believed so strongly in his stuff, he drank hemlock and died which made the cancellation effectively permanent until other people showed how powerful a personal, permanent cancellation can be and this cancellation had the inverse effect.
Comment by mediaisdelicious at 20/06/2020 at 18:26 UTC
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It turns out that state sanctioned killings have been unjust all along.