Hey everybody. This is James Lindsay. You are listening to New Discourse's

Bullets, where we do a short bullet point-like summary of a single topic from woke that we all need to understand so that we can defeat it.

And I'm actually going to borrow from somebody today, somebody who I don't actually know,

but who appeared in a reply on my ex, actually not even on my ex, somebody else's ex,

but I saw the tweet and I shared the tweet and I think it's brilliant.

We're going to talk about the signature signs, the criteria, as he phrased it, for cancel culture.

Or I would say these are criteria to recognize that you are watching a cancellation attempt,

but also that you're watching a struggle session, an online struggle session in particular,

which is a little different from an in-person struggle session.

Obviously one of the criteria that is taken for granted is not listed here on the six that he gives. I'm going to give

seven. I'm going to add one to it. One of the criteria that's kind of a baseline assumption

for an online struggle session or cancellation attempt is that it is a mass scale phenomenon.

There's a lot going on. There's a lot of people piling on.

You've probably heard it called a pile on as a matter of fact or other language has been used.

Dog pile is another phrase. Twitter Storm was a word that used to get used, kind of a cuter phrase.

But here's what this guy tweeted.

If you want to find him, he has an account called Sarodinian, which is at Sarodinian 1.

It is phonetically spelled, so you can figure that out.

S-A-R-O-Dinian 1.

Anyway, he wrote the following.

I would remind everyone of the six criterion of a cancellation attempt.

One, punitive not corrective.

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