I finally admitted that "cancel culture" is more complicated than I thought - what side are you on?

Okay so for years I was firmly against cancel culture. Thought it was mob justice ruining people's lives over old tweets or dumb jokes. But then last month my local coffee shop in Austin hired this guy who had a whole history of harassing women online. Customers found out, posted about it, and the shop let him go after 3 days. Some people said that's cancel culture gone too far. Others said it's just accountability. I honestly don't know where the line is anymore. Are we supposed to just let people keep jobs after they've done stuff like that? Or is it really just mob rule? What convinced you one way or the other?

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valw3612d ago

The line gets blurry when the punishment doesn't match the crime's timeline.

julia_patel12d ago

But what if the crime itself is ongoing, like fraud that keeps compounding - do we punish for the start date or keep adding to the sentence as the damage grows? That's a whole different kind of blurry.