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Australian Comedian Hannah Gadsby Slams Ted Sarandos After Being Referenced in Dave Chappelle Memo

Hannah Gadsby kills it. <3

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jwb

Anyone actually find her funny at all?

Guybrush

I haven't seen Chapelle's special and don't know what he says, but I do find many aspects of cancel culture to be dumb. Do we have to agree on everything in order to accept and tolerate that someone else has a place in society / entertainment / whatever?

Taken to extremes, in the US, you could have comedians for democrats and other comedians for republicans. You could read different books, watch different channels, consume different news sources and entirely different narratives about the world. It removes common ground, segregates people and ups conflict.

It undermines democracy which was built on the idea that we should voice opinions, debate them and place our votes. Differing opinions should come into contact inside our brains and the best ones win. A good thing about that is it makes it possible for people to change their mind. Cancel culture is more like cultural war and you stick to your side/echo chambers where bad opinions can fester unchallenged. If you think your opinions are right, you ironically lose the ability to influence your opponents. You know more about alt right and q-anon than I do, I'm sure. Cancel culture is a small part of the environment that allows stuff like that to blossom.

Increased cancel culture is also one of the consequences of people getting radicalised by social media echo chambers and algorithms feeding us content.

Sometimes cancellation is appropriate, but I don't think the line should be drawn at legal expression of opinions you don't agree with. Cancel Varg Vikernes, R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein - you know, people who would rape or murder.

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jwb

Point is even if Chappelle is a shell of his former self, even in this state he's still funnier than Hannah Gadsby.

jwb

And prolly funnier than most women comics if we are being real about it ...

The Batlord

Alright this is vapid as ****.

1. What do you think cancel culture is? Cause it sounds like your main interaction with it is the news.

2. The market of ideas is a nice, grandiose concept but it doesn't reflect reality and never did. Most people never change their ideas about anything and when they do it's not because of a free exchange of ideas by men with powdered wigs. Progress and change mostly comes through violence. Democracy is just how more people enforce their will on fewer people.

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Guybrush

I figure it's you who probably lack perspective, Bats. I think it's pretty much limited to a narrow slice of the going-ons in the US.

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The Batlord

If the European perspective is that the cream rises to the top if we all just talk it out like adults then no wonder you people can't keep Nazis out of your parliaments. The social media echo chambers certainly suck but they are a symptom of polarization, not a root cause and blaming radicalization on itself is a typical liberal viewpoint that ignores material analysis.

If there weren't material conditions that were leading people to look for answers why their life and the world sucks so much then Twitter, Youtube, Fox News, talk radio, etc wouldn't have an audience to wind up. But with every financial crisis the elite class consolidate more and more capital and the market share for everyone else shrinks and shrinks and people get more and more desperate for any analytical lens that makes sense to them.

Worrying about cancel culture and echo chambers as villains isolated from any deeper, more holistic analysis is just simping for the status quo, and blathering on about the free exchange of ideas is ignoring how and why these radical ideas develop in the first place. They develop because people's needs aren't being met and they are angry and emotional, and they often come to their conclusions via anger and emotion with help from somebody who knows how to direct their anger and emotions. It's a marketplace of ideas in the same sense as any marketplace functions on cold reason and logic (hint: they don't).

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Guybrush

That's precious coming from a member of the democracy that elected the openly racist Trump as their president who campaigned building the wall.

Did you see it coming or were you too deep in your own echo chambers to see what was happening?

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The Batlord

Where's the free market of ideas? All you seem to be doing is reacting emotionally to insults hoping to dunk on me and ignoring the actual meat of my posts. It's almost like all your highfalutin talk about free exchange of ideas doesn't even apply to you, the quintessential free exchanger of ideas, and what actually rules debate is emotional manipulation (I.e. I am ruling you by making you petty rather than logical)

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