To Cancel Cancellers ... or Not to Cancel

wiscoaster

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All my life I've voted with my feet and with my wallet to reward firms with good products and services that meet my needs and my expectations, or to punish those with bad products and services that don't. It seems to me that this is a free market form of what cancel culture has extended and taken to a new level to encompass social and cultural norms and political policies of which they approve or disapprove.

So be it ... now my question is, am I stooping to their level if I vote with my feet and my wallet to punish those firms and organizations that use cancel culture in ways with which I disagree? For example: if I discontinue drinking Coke, am I using cancel culture methods against cancel culture? Making me as guilty as they, if this is an activity deserving of guilt? Wouldn't this make me as big of a hypocrite as they are?
 
We're not talking about businesses that, "support United Way" vs "donate to Habitat for Humanity" vs "give to Catholic Charity Hospitals".

We're taking about companies that explicitly support the literal, smoke and flames, burning of American cities in order to build a narrative of racial discrimination contradicted by the facts. Employers who require their employees to attend indoctrination sessions that Marx or Hegel would be proud of, replacing the individual with the identity group concept that avoids needing to demonstrate any particular fact, and sets a Kafka-trap for anyone who disagrees.

I didn't ask for the war, they brought it to me. I'm not the slightest bit shy about taking my money elsewhere whenever possible.
 
All my life I've voted with my feet and with my wallet to reward firms with good products and services that meet my needs and my expectations, or to punish those with bad products and services that don't. It seems to me that this is a free market form of what cancel culture has extended and taken to a new level to encompass social and cultural norms and political policies of which they approve or disapprove.

So be it ... now my question is, am I stooping to their level if I vote with my feet and my wallet to punish those firms and organizations that use cancel culture in ways with which I disagree? For example: if I discontinue drinking Coke, am I using cancel culture methods against cancel culture? Making me as guilty as they, if this is an activity deserving of guilt? Wouldn't this make me as big of a hypocrite as they are?

You stopping drinking Coke products isn't "cancel culture".

You waging social media warfare on them is.
 

TomJ

Member
I own a business and we never discuss politics with our customers. I'm in business to support my family, not win a political debate. I question the wisdom of businesses who inject themselves into politics as regardless of which side they're on, they're alienating about 50% of their prospective customer base. To answer your question, no, you're not cancelling them. You're simply not funding their efforts to promote things you don't agree with.
 

wiscoaster

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I don't think any company would "explicity support" activities as described; I think it's more of a "backdoor" support by explicitly cancelling business relationships with entities that express views that oppose their acceptable mainstream narratives. Streaming video and social media platforms would be examples where such has occurred.
 

roscoe

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I don't think any company would "explicity support" activities as described; I think it's more of a "backdoor" support by explicitly cancelling business relationships with entities that express views that oppose their acceptable mainstream narratives. Streaming video and social media platforms would be examples where such has occurred.

Kind of my point. No company has 'literally' supported the burning of American cities, etc.. However, yes, some companies probably share the goals of some protesters: e.g. racial justice, opposing police bias, etc. So, yes, if you support racial bias, by all means stop drinking Coke. I am sure that will really hurt the Coca-Cola corporation.

But mainly I was pointing out the absurd hyperbole of the post.
 

theotherwaldo

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My big problem with Coca Cola is that they knowingly produce a product that is harmful to its consumers.
My concern about their preference of certain "races" and condemnation of other "races" simply furthers the existence of Racism.
Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me on this... .
 
My big problem with Coca Cola is that they knowingly produce a product that is harmful to its consumers.
My concern about their preference of certain "races" and condemnation of other "races" simply furthers the existence of Racism.
Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me on this... .

That's horse pucky.

They produce a product which people may choose to abuse.

Every firearms company out there knowingly produces products they know may be Hangul to their customers. Car manufactures, drug companies, farm equipment companies, etc.

They make soft drinks.
 

wiscoaster

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My big problem with Coca Cola is that they knowingly produce a product that is harmful to its consumers.
If everything that was potentially harmful to consumers was removed from the market there would be nothing left to buy. The harm of anything is only in how it is used vs. how it is misused and that's the responsibility of the consumer, not of the producer. Holding producers responsible for the harm caused by consumer misuse is ridiculous. Yet that's exactly what leftists want to do in some instances, e.g. firearms manufacturers.
 
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roscoe

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My big problem with Coca Cola is that they knowingly produce a product that is harmful to its consumers.
My concern about their preference of certain "races" and condemnation of other "races" simply furthers the existence of Racism.
Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me on this... .
No, he wouldn't, because Coca Cola Corp. is not 'preferring' any one race.
 

roscoe

Well-known member
Yeah... right.

You might study up on MLK a bit, and not focus on out-of-context quotations.

Unless you mean Coca Cola, in which case I can only say that you really do not understand how modern multinational businesses absorb information and make decisions. Or maybe you just misused the words 'preference' and 'condemnation'.
 
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