Lindsay Ellis on Performative Outrage & Cancellations

A very poignant point about performative outrage and how public cancellations, especially on Twitter, often target people within an existing in-group more then externally due to external targets often being unaffected by public shaming coming from outside their in group.

The full video is worth a listen if you have 2 hours to kill or in anyway care about Lindsay Ellis/the nature of online culture war discourse when combined with attention seeking. Though don't cry for her. She's smart and has a lot to say, and also makes a ton of money off Pateron. Hasn't been financially hurt over this. This public shaming was dumb and pointless though and the whole video is a fair examination of why this often performative progressive behavior via public shaming is so common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4

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