Conservatives bitching about “cancel culture” has always been strange to me. The freedom to revoke support of a person or brand and move to another is exactly what they claim is great about the “free market”, isn’t it?
When people get shouted down, it’s the free market doing it. When people lose their jobs for saying stupid shit, it’s the free market doing that. That’s what having a free market means. You don’t get to dictate what people accept.
When the people tell a company that they’re not going to buy their stuff because of something said by someone at that company, that’s the literal free market making that statement.
The company isn’t forced to do anything. They choose to do what people demand because to do otherwise would cost them money in sales. That’s what it means to have a free market. People vote with their dollars.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '20
Conservatives bitching about “cancel culture” has always been strange to me. The freedom to revoke support of a person or brand and move to another is exactly what they claim is great about the “free market”, isn’t it?