Opinion | Mikki Kendall: 'Sometimes, our actions have consequences. And if you have social capital, they're rarely insurmountable — it's just you're not used to facing any.' - NBCNewsTHINK
And, of course, no"cancellation" you've ever heard of has stopped anyone from speaking — or you wouldn't have heard of them since. In most cases, all that has happened is that they were free to speak and the public was free to respond, and then they spoke up again to complain about the response. But you can't say you value free speech and then oppose letting people who disagree with your speech have access to a platform to respond — even if they call for your ouster.
After all, we may not always like the social penalties for speech that is racist, anti-Semitic, sexist or otherwise bigoted — like, say, against transgender people — but no one was ever guaranteed the right to a grandstand without hecklers, even if what they were saying was widely socially acceptable. The marketplace of ideas has always worked best when there is an open and honest exchange, no matter how fraught those exchanges might feel in the moment.
Essentially, those who object to cancel culture are saying that, while they value free speech for themselves, they object to people with less power and reach being able to respond in certain ways.
There are, of course, exceptions that prove the rule, but even those people who have been"canceled" in ways we may think were disproportionate often go on with their lives and their careers. Justine Sacco — often the poster child for anti-cancel culture types — published a tweet that
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