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   Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:43 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

   Once again, for those in the back…

   #YouCannotShameTheShameless

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:35 JST Taran Rampersad

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     @paninid I wouldn't cancel anyone based on a 'vibe' or feeling. As a trained mediator I try to balance my own biases.

     Biases have their purpose. Sometimes they are intuitively right. Sometimes intuitively wrong.

     Elledeeay repeated this.
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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:35 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • Taran Rampersad

     @knowprose

     Emotional self-regulation and #CriticalThinking skills are forms of inter-generational wealth, and the #polycrisis is exposing societal poverty.

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:36 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • Taran Rampersad

     @knowprose
     You are 💯 not wrong.

     But, the reason cancel culture exists is because of feelings and emotions far removed from the logical, articulate definitions of a dictionary.

     It’s all vibes.

     In other words, everything has already gone to shit.

     I’m just trying to keep up!

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:37 JST Taran Rampersad

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     @paninid The reasons we have dictionaries is for this very purpose.

     If people just make shit up, nothing has shared meaning and everything goes to shit.

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:38 JST Taran Rampersad

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     @paninid Oddly, you exemplified what you wrote. It's why I stick to a dictionary. Yes, language shifts and changes, but the dictionary is an agreed upon thing.

     I dislike cancel culture myself. It's often used like a blunt instrument and can easily harm innocent people based on some opinion.

     I'm of the firm belief that if you complain about a platform you gave someone, you're helping them because bad press is still press - like talking about a certain person with bad hair ALL THE TIME.

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:38 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • Taran Rampersad

     @knowprose
     I view #culture itself as not monolithic, nor fixed, nor even logical, and so are popular definitions of cancellation, regardless of the dictionary.

     This is a term that became popularized as late as 2016, per Merriam-Webster.

     Cancellation is a consequence of speech.

     Fixed ideologies with an “agenda” will weaponize it, so it loses broad meaning.

     The nature of, enforcement, and severity/duration of consequences should inform whether the term applies vis-à-vis #boycott.

     YMMV

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:39 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • Taran Rampersad

     @knowprose

     Both “woke” and “cancel culture” mean wildly different things to different people.

     So, I drafted my own definition.

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:40 JST Taran Rampersad

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     @paninid Dunno where you dredged that up from.

     https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cancel

     https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boycott

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:41 JST Taran Rampersad

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     @paninid I mean, we could cancel cancel culture... but then we wouldn't because we used it to cancel... I have a headache already.

     But really, if people simply vote with their feet... boycotting...

     But 'cancel culture' is different because... spontaneity and unpredictability. It tends to happen organically. Boycotting is more organized and defined.

     The trouble is people conflate the two when they are separate.

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:41 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • Taran Rampersad

     @knowprose
     A distaste for “cancel culture” is usually a distaste for consequences, and the consequences are usually being put on mute.

     Hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty, and sensitivity to words (because people don’t read entire books) is pervasive.

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     Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 03:03:42 JST Taran Rampersad

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     @paninid

     The source of it, with the context within which it was used in that editorial piece back in 2022.

     https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/cancel-culture-free-speech-poll.html