• WackyTabbacy42069@reddthat.com
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    Cancel culture. It’s been around for a very long time, though it used to be expressed in shunning, banishment, or communal acts of corporeal harm (e.g. tarring and feathering, lynching, etc.)

    Edit: just realized the question was for something true, not just something that’s been around for longer than people think lol

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      I must be old. I remember when “cancel culture” was called “voting with your wallet”, and rich corporations used it to justify their own success.

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        I feel like that’s more of a corpo relations phrase, cancel culture is more personal. Like that voting with your wallet was supposed to influence the behavior of corps, not individuals.

        I think a good older example of cancel culture were the American red scares, especially the McCarthy trials. Although an extreme example of it, they were ‘cancelling’ people who’s views they considered dangerous. People disliked by others would often be called a Communist and socially / economically harmed tremendously, regardless if they were actually a Communist. If you got to a McCarthy trial, you were doomed; that guy was cancelling with the power of the state, afaik knowledgeable to the fact many of the accusations were false