Cancelling by [[Contrapoints]] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8 Transcript: https://www.contrapoints.com/transcripts/canceling

• Cancel Culture Tropes
  1. Presumption of Guilt
     • “accusation is proof enough”
     • “believe victims"
  2. Abstraction
     • Replaces the specific, concrete details of a claim with a vague abstraction
       • “Tati accuses James of trying to trick straight men into thinking they’re gay” becomes “James is toxic and manipulative"
         • The main call-out was actually that James endorsed a competing hair vitamin product
       • Accusation becomes fact. Specific action replaced with vague idea. Actions becomes being (tried to becomes “is”).
       • Vague idea possibly has very different connotations. “Sexual preditor” calls to mind very different actions than “tried to trick gay men into thinking they’re gay"
  3. Essentialism
     • Move from criticising actions to criticising the person themselves.
  4. Psudo-moralism or Pseudo-intellectualism
     • People are really interested in the drama and schaudenfreud, not their commitment to moral or intellectual standards.
  5. No Forgiveness
  6. The Transitive Property of Cancellation
  7. Dualism