"I think you’re getting at this above, but in my mind, the difference between boycotting and cancelling is that boycotting opposes something an organization is DOING (or not doing), and cancelling opposes who someone IS."
Hmm, yeah this is a good distinction. Like I said, I don't have a problem with somebody cancelling their Spotify subsc…
"I think you’re getting at this above, but in my mind, the difference between boycotting and cancelling is that boycotting opposes something an organization is DOING (or not doing), and cancelling opposes who someone IS."
Hmm, yeah this is a good distinction. Like I said, I don't have a problem with somebody cancelling their Spotify subscription because they don't like Joe Rogan. If Rogan's show were the wall-to-wall racism some people seem to think it is, I probably wouldn't want to support his platform either.
My problem is a) that so many people are willing to decide who somebody IS without ever even listening to them (again, Rogan has thousands of hours of podcasts and most of the people condemning him have only ever seen one heavily edited clip).
And b) as you say, the idea that making a racist joke makes somebody an eternal racist. And not just any racist, but a racist so damnable that they need to be removed from public life forever. It's the whole "one-strike, even if it was decade ago" rule that makes it all so repulsive.
"I think you’re getting at this above, but in my mind, the difference between boycotting and cancelling is that boycotting opposes something an organization is DOING (or not doing), and cancelling opposes who someone IS."
Hmm, yeah this is a good distinction. Like I said, I don't have a problem with somebody cancelling their Spotify subscription because they don't like Joe Rogan. If Rogan's show were the wall-to-wall racism some people seem to think it is, I probably wouldn't want to support his platform either.
My problem is a) that so many people are willing to decide who somebody IS without ever even listening to them (again, Rogan has thousands of hours of podcasts and most of the people condemning him have only ever seen one heavily edited clip).
And b) as you say, the idea that making a racist joke makes somebody an eternal racist. And not just any racist, but a racist so damnable that they need to be removed from public life forever. It's the whole "one-strike, even if it was decade ago" rule that makes it all so repulsive.