Hot take about "Cancel culture" (specifically, the term itself)
"Cancel culture" sounds like a dogwhistle wielded by people unwilling to own their mistakes and shitty behaviour, and it needs to burn in a pit. 
Hot take about "Cancel culture" (specifically, the term itself)
@Jo
It is only valid if it specifically talks about how some build their social capitals by making call outs tho.
Hot take about "Cancel culture" (specifically, the term itself)
@danishcookies @Jo honestly "doing it to build social capital" is trivially true as a potential motivation. It isn't damning at all. Humans are obligate social apes. Building social capital is an instinctive survival strategy, something we all do all the time. Just like "attention-seeking," casting aspersions on this basis is a red flag for me.
Hot take about "Cancel culture" (specifically, the term itself)
@SallyStrange @Jo uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fighting the accumulation of social is intrinsic to anarchist practices. Cults of personality and states form that way. "Building social capitals is an instinctive survival strategy, something we all do all the time" is nonsense. There's a vast difference between building a strong, tightly knitted community and becoming an influencer with thousands of followers and audiences.
Hot take about "Cancel culture" (specifically, the term itself)
@SallyStrange @Jo Building mutual relations help encouraging social connections within a community. Building social capital will tend to break that connections.
Hot take about "Cancel culture" (specifically, the term itself)
@SallyStrange @Jo Social capital is just as dangerous, if not more in some cases, in the marketplace of ideas. The call for accumulation of social capital is also common under capitalistic system and also act as an important gear in hierarchical systems.
Hot take about "Cancel culture" (specifically, the term itself)
@SallyStrange @Jo That's why it's called "social capital."