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> You've not met me, but I'm a left-leaning individual who thinks the drama about "cancel culture" is mostly invented.

Your position is the same as the ones he's met. That was his point.



Indeed. My point is that "cancel culture" is a problem on Twitter, since Twitter intentionally amplifies the voices of the people who participate. So, "cancel culture" on Twitter is not representative of how real people on "the left" (or "the right") feel about current events.

For instance the vast majority of working professionals I know don't get themselves regularly involved in political arguments on Twitter, since they see it as unproductive.

So it is simultaneously true that:

* cancel culture is "a thing" on Twitter, in the sense that it's easy to find examples

* cancel culture "doesn't exist", in the sense that no one you are likely to encounter in real life is ok with cancelling people for tweets they made as a teenager




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