Again, the complaint is about cancel culture itself, and not so much the corporate response to the cancel mob.Originally Posted by gimmick
Yea that seems to be a running theme with half these cancel whatever hot takes that keep popping up. Go figure corporations do corporate shit. Random facelift for corporation X doing elaborate handwaving with no real commitment to anything and right wing info bubble of entitled idiotics have all the opinions. If you bother running any of their complaints to logical conclusions, they seem to be very willing to demolish capitalism. This isn't even any antitrust shit, it's basic tenets of functioning capitalism.
You can talk all you want about what rights corporations should have, but none of this works if were asking corporations to go against the market and their shareholders, because dipshits with no skin in the game are offended by their actions. Actions that break no law. Very often quite the opposite especially with publicly traded corporations. Boards can't put ideology over money without the will of their shareholders.
Now, it would be better if these corporations weren't so spineless, and actually stood up to the woke mob, but many of them wrongly perceive that the path of least resistance is to cave. Look at how well Goya and Chik-Fil-A both did when they refused to back down. There's something to be said for being the counter-counterculture.
In any case, once again, we aren't discussing the legal rights for these corporations to act in this way, nor are we discussing the brand-protection strategies being undertaken in order to avoid cancellation. That's a different discussion for a different time.
This thread is about cancel culture, and the woke mobs which end up forcing these moves to occur in the first place. The owners of the Dr. Seuss books didn't just wake up one day and decide six of their books were racist. They started receiving complaints from the SJW crew, and preemptively struck by removing six books, hoping their sacrifice would please the woke gods, and thus allow them to live.
The intelligent, thoughtful observer would say, "Wow, this is a pretty bad reflection upon our culture that Dr. Seuss felt it had to ban six of its own books in order to avoid a vicious woke cancel mob attack."
gimmick and duped say, "Capitalism, bro! Just capitalism at work!"
Sad!
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