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This seems naive. When you see Twitter threads cancelling people, your colleagues aren't going to make a dent in that mob even if they are brave enough to stand up for you on public platforms.

Honestly, if it's so risky to give candid advice to anyone, why take the risk? There's no reason to. They can make it on their own afterall.

>>simmer+(OP)
It probably is naive. But my point is more about the fact that it seems to very rarely (never?) be people who are champions of diversity getting cancelled because of one comment they made that got taken out of context. That seems to be what people in this thread are scared of. It's invariably the latent misogynist who's been saying and doing misogynist things their entire life, and this time things erupted instead of being swept under the rug. The lack of evidence of otherwise upstanding people being cancelled seems to go against the narrative that 'this can happen to you' which this article proposes. It'll happen to you, if you don't have a history of being respectful.

>>Niksko+sf2
How would you know what the people being cancelled are like in real life when all you see of them are one sided Twitter rants?

Honestly, you could draw parallels to victim blaming. He deserved it because he didn't cultivate allies to defend himself against false accusations of sexism/racism/*ism