We have recently witnessed attempts to destroy the reputations of celebrities and intellectuals simply for their ideas (one of the recent cases we discussed It was Steven Pinker's), in addition to the fact that this strategy is ineffective and counterproductive (basically for three reasons).
However, how to know we're getting a legitimate review instead of a cancellation. The following 6 signs They can give you a clue, depending on Jonathan Rauch:
six signs
- Punitiveness. Cancellation seeks to punish and not correct, and often for a single error and not a trajectory. For example, forcing you to resign from your job.
- Censorship. If they try to censor you, prevent you from publishing a work, boycott you and not allow your freedom of expression to give talks or attend conferences.
- Organization. If critics are organized and have objectives, if they recruit others and harass you at work or in the media.
- Secondary boycotts. If there are implicit or explicit threats that those who support you will suffer the same punishment as you,
- Moral Posture. If the tone against you is ad hominem, accusatory, of indignation and moral demonization. Cancellers do not seek to convince but rather use the attacked to elevate their social status.
- Veracity. If they spread things about you that are not true, if they do not care about truthfulness, if they distort your words, ignore your corrections and make false accusations.
These are the warning signs. If you spot one or two, they may be canceling you. If there are 5 or 6, then that is surely what is happening. Another thing is that you convince yourself of those signs, or you exaggerate them to victimize yourself and obtain some social or economic benefit, which is, along with cancel culture, the other great social scourge of the 21st century.
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If you notice these signs, they are not criticizing you, but they are canceling you
was originally published in
Xataka Science
by
Sergio Parra
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