Steve QJ
1 min readDec 11, 2020

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Non-examples? Did you even read them? A family business being shut dowm because of eight year old tweets from a 15 year old girl? A researcher being fired for racism because he tweeted the work of a black researcher while fully agreeing with it? A professor beiing abused and drummed out of hiis university because he objected to the idea of white students being told to leave campus for a day? If you consider these non-examples you're not wired up right.

But putting that aside, what point to you think you're making here? You disagreed with me about whether cancel culture exists. You asked me for examples, I gave you some, and then you give even more examples as if that somehow supports your argument? I know that in the echo chambers around the internet this kind of thing flies, but whataboutism is not a defence.

I couldn't care less whose "side" is doing it, this behaviour, wherever it arises, is bad. You seem able to understand that when Candace Owens does it, but when people on the left do it you scoff at the idea that it even exists? This doesn't need to be some stupid, tribalistic game of "well they do it too!" This style of "thinking" is so infuriatingly childish!

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

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