Cancel Culture is Lynch Culture
Show me the difference in ideology, motivation, intent, and level of bigotry. People harmed by cancel culture should be able to file hate crime assault charges against their aggressors.
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Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others. It can also be an extreme form of informal group social control, and it is often conducted with the display of a public spectacle (often in the form of a hanging) for maximum intimidation. - Wikipedia
Note the term extrajudicial killing.
I will let the reader noodle through how few words need to be changed to effectively change this to a description of cancel culture.
To my knowledge no one has been murdered by a cancel mob. People have lost jobs, livelihoods, and had their homes or businesses vandalized. So, no one has been murdered. But convince me otherwise that a cancel mob is operationally and ideologically distinct from a lynch mob. Convince me they haven’t convinced themselves that murdering someone’s livelihood isn’t the right thing to do simply because “your kind ain’t welcome hereabouts.”
What do you think?