cancel culture
4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 11, 2021 by Balaji Sr i n i v a s a n · across every show →
Everything said about cancel culture, oldest first
Aug 11, 2021
Balaji: Cancel culture is a social war to conquer minds
“If in physical space, you win by a physical war, you win by invading your opponent's territory. In social space, in digital space, you win by invading their mind. And so once you think of cancel culture as not being cancel culture, but it's a state of social w…”
Sep 15, 2021 negative
Mackey: Cancel culture is evolutionary tribalism replacing physical violence
“The problem is we did evolve in tribes, and there's a tendency to love your own tribe, and you want to kill the other tribe. So we see that. Cancel cultures, like, We used to be able to just, we don't kill the other tribe. Now we cancel it. And so we see that …”
Feb 16, 2022 bearish
Cowen: Cancel culture has maybe peaked, citing pushback in Virginia
“Cancel culture the negative side of woke culture is extraordinarily pernicious, but I also think it maybe has peaked, and you see this in my state of Virginia, Seemed to have become a totally blue state, and they elected a Republican governor.”