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user-inactivated · 1130 days ago · link · · parent · post: Thomas Jefferson statue coming down in New York's City Council chamber : NPR
Canceling has two varieties: 1. Holding people in power to account, in a way similar to a boycott. 2. Publicly shaming regular people for having political beliefs different than yours. Both are intended to make consequences for that person, i.e., they have to be alive. (The first definition is the original. It was appropriated from black culture and twisted into the second one, just like the term "woke".) The main point is: who or what we choose to honor in a public space is a choice, maybe even an important choice. Why does it have to be Jefferson? Or even a person? Are people not supposed to reason about who and what we should be honoring?