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I think again, our attention is misplaced.... People complain about getting canceled, but the issue is really on the input end:
Celebrity culture provides a megaphone to people who honestly have very little original, meaningful, or insightful ideas. We apparently care about the 163 character comments of an athlete on social issues, yet people who study these topics receive a lot less attention. This applies to medical problems, when Trump or Elon Musk are pushing HCQ without an in-depth understanding of the field, yet the get many orders of magnitude the attention than the actual comprehensive studies that evaluated these questions.
The truth is, we are simply granting too much attention to people who don't deserve it. Rescinding it is cancel culture...yet it wouldn't even exist if we didn't expect answers to life's big questions from people who excel in something completely different. The other end of course is the Laura Ingraham types, who tell Lebron to "shut up and dribble", but they don't remind themselves that maybe their law degrees don't take them far enough to comment on medical aspects of COVID. Her own phrasing would apply like this: Laura, shut up and...uhm, just shut up.
Celebrity culture provides a megaphone to people who honestly have very little original, meaningful, or insightful ideas. We apparently care about the 163 character comments of an athlete on social issues, yet people who study these topics receive a lot less attention. This applies to medical problems, when Trump or Elon Musk are pushing HCQ without an in-depth understanding of the field, yet the get many orders of magnitude the attention than the actual comprehensive studies that evaluated these questions.
The truth is, we are simply granting too much attention to people who don't deserve it. Rescinding it is cancel culture...yet it wouldn't even exist if we didn't expect answers to life's big questions from people who excel in something completely different. The other end of course is the Laura Ingraham types, who tell Lebron to "shut up and dribble", but they don't remind themselves that maybe their law degrees don't take them far enough to comment on medical aspects of COVID. Her own phrasing would apply like this: Laura, shut up and...uhm, just shut up.