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>>dale_h+(OP)
I found it hard to reconcile his charming and witty comic strips with some of the ugly things he wrote elsewhere. I would never usually throw a book away, but I made an exception for one of his books, because I didn't want anyone to see it on my bookshelf and I didn't want to give to anyone else.

>>hermit+US
Consider that we wouldn't have the life we have today if cancel-culture was the norm several decades ago. Not everyone will be perfect at everything, so just take the good and ignore the rest. Genius and insanity tend to be very, very close.

>>userbi+Dj1
'Cancel culture' was the norm several decades ago. And several centuries before that.

Just in semi-recent history we had mccarthy 'cancelling' people for purportedly being linked to communism, and that was a whole lot more serious than some modern publisher refusing to buy your book or twitter banning you.

A few decades before that, it wasn't real uncommon that if your neighbors objected to who you were or what you said, for them to hang you by your neck from a convenient tree until you were quite dead.

Humans have always suffered penalties for being on the wrong side of their neighbor's majority opinions. These days the penalties are frankly pretty minor.

>>wredco+9s1
Just because something bad like censorship happened in the past, it doesn't mean we need to excuse it in our own times.

>>colive+Bv1
As I type this, my above comment is at 0 karma. Have I been cancelled?

If I say the comment I'm replying to is stupid, have I just cancelled someone?

>>wredco+AA1
> If I say the comment I'm replying to is stupid, have I just cancelled someone?

No, you would just be lying.