The left has become a movement where people are scared to disagree. Scared to be too far to the left or the right or the bottom or the top of where their friends are.

People will often say that they are scared of being canceled — of people turning on them en masse, and exercising the basic right to walk away. I’m not actually against ‘cancel culture’ — how could I be against people deciding that someone was an asshole, and going elsewhere? But I am against the specific implementation, mostly because it does not work — I now have nearly three times as many followers as I did when I was canceled.

The effect of actually-existing cancel culture on the social ecosystem is to select against anyone with a sense of shame. The only person that I can think of that was eliminated through canceling was Dr. Bones, and I think that he would have been fine if he’d simply denied everything and carried on as usual. No one will copy his response, because he’s not around to be copied — they will copy the responses of those remaining.

The real negative parts of being canceled are having a massive amount of social media notifications telling you to go fuck yourself — basically, the emotional equivalent of a DDoS attack — and the experience of having significant portions of your online friend group dissociate from you to avoid it happening to them.

The Left — the same people who all-too-often say that their politics are about love and kindness —is dominated by bullies.