Yes, I seriously think they are whiny complaints. As long as the dominant largely white, largely Christian, and largely patriarchal powers were in control, the people who got canceled by them were called whiny by them, too. And now that the tables are turned, people like you, who probably are in no danger of ever being canceled write paranoid pieces like this because all of a sudden you gotta watch the sh*t that comes out of your mouth. Or typed off your keyboard.
Yes, previous to this point, where social media has allowed large numbers of people to weigh in on the moronic, the ignorant, and the -ist of take your pick, people could get away with saying stupid sh*t before. It didn't get spread very far beyond locker rooms, or men's clubs, or upper management offices. Sometimes the operations floor. Definitely around construction sites and other blue-collar workplaces. Around the water coolers if there were no women on that particular cubicle floor. At quilting bees. Church and the informal socializing afterwards. PTA meetings. Bars. None of that nonsense got nationwide distribution before.
If people are not intelligent enough to realize the social landscape has changed radically, they should stop being so surprised that hundreds and thousands of people will call them out.
They will weigh in with the “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all” saying. I’d add “/smart” to “nice.” Or the equivalent of “better to be silent and thought a fool then open one’s mouth (or keyboard) and remove all doubt.” And yes, these days they will call for an offender’s head. Better get used to it, because it will never halt until there are no social media platforms.
Social media platforms are all about eyeballs. If someone is too dumb to figure out their stupidity is being seen by millions of people, and they can't accept the consequences of that idiocy, the solution is:
Keep your f*cking stupidity to yourself. Plain and simple.
Nobody says your employer, much less anyone else, has to put up with it. And if you show your stupidity far and wide, derision and opposition will come from far and wide.
Gina Carano has not been "silenced." You cannot seriously tell me you believe this. She immediately signed a deal with Ben Shapiro. While her account was limited on Twitter for awhile, she has not been banned from the platform or any other. She can go on speaking her mind, she just can't do it while being on Disney's dime, which is entirely their right.
For the record, even as a trans woman of indigenous color I just shrugged her stupidity off, but I sure started using bop pronouns like beep wanted. And I'll miss bop on The Mandalorian, but I'm sure another awesome and hopefully smarter actress will take bop place.
And as the above mentioned trans woman, you're going to accuse me of “conformity?” I have to admit I laughed out loud at that quip. Thanks for that.
And I don't need any “courage to question the zealotry that characterizes wokeness” (italics mine) All I need to do is be intelligent enough to navigate the new social landscape, to build my cred in the kinds of social justice I believe in, so I can say something when activists carry things too far.
However, such was not the case with Gina Carano. Her “wounds” were all self-inflicted.