The city rallied behind Tamboli’s despite online boycott calls, as frustration grows over the Trump administration’s federal taskforce following multiple deaths
The internet has made it difficult to effectively ostracize assholes on it. I only say this because I agree with you. It was easier to ostracize assholes in smaller contexts. In global contexts, it’s much more difficult. And it’s whack-a-mole.
Yup, it actually empowers them. Every time we see someone get fired for some completely dickish stuff they’ve done or said, the next day we see a go fund me worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars from cretins living vicariously through them.
The internet has made it difficult to effectively ostracize assholes on it. I only say this because I agree with you. It was easier to ostracize assholes in smaller contexts. In global contexts, it’s much more difficult. And it’s whack-a-mole.
Yup, it actually empowers them. Every time we see someone get fired for some completely dickish stuff they’ve done or said, the next day we see a go fund me worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars from cretins living vicariously through them.
“I got canceled!” “I’m a victim of cancel culture!”
Of course, they never mention what, exactly, they got cancelled for.