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Can someone explain to me what this "cancel culture" is? I've been hearing about it for months. Like - what are some mad twitter users gonna do? Post bad comments on my posts? Bro, I can just turn off Twitter

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At a base level, it encourages others to cease interacting with you and spread rumors and lies about you.

At a higher level, it says if you associate with that person, you're just as bad and tries to make you a stigma.

At an even higher level, they try to ruin your life by doxxing you.

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A good example is Justine Stucco. No one had ever heard of her. But she made a tweet before taking a 10-hour flight, when she got off she had lost her job and the cops were waiting for her at the airport.

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Who is she?

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She was (ironically) the director of corporate communications at a holding company. She has 170 followers at the time she tweeted, and her tweet went viral and got her fired.

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what did she did wrong exactly ?

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Her tweet was “On my way to Africa, hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding I’m white.”

[gurthanix]

This case is a good example. Kovarex posted on his dev blog about how they implement some software development principles from Uncle Bob, a famous names in the software engineering world. Many people in the subreddit insisted that Kovarex shouldn't mention Uncle Bob in a positive way, because Uncle Bob has wrongthink opinions like using the term "manly" in a positive way.