Hit 1000 forum posts about cancel culture this morning and it shook me

I checked my profile stats last night and saw I had exactly 1,023 posts in this community alone since joining two years ago. That is a lot of time spent arguing about whether some teenager in Georgia deserved to lose her scholarship for a tweet from 2015. It hit me that I was treating each case like a court case, trying to prove who was right or wrong, but I never asked if the pile-on was actually helping anyone. Have any of you stepped back and counted how many of these cases you have followed to the end without losing sleep over it?

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hill.barbara2d ago

330 posts in the "cancel culture" thread alone. I need a hobby that doesn't involve debating people who still think a bad tweet should get you fired from life.

alice_wilson731d ago

Hang on, 330 posts? Please tell me that's a typo, @hill.barbara. I thought I was bad with my 50 comments on a thread about pineapple on pizza, but that is next level dedication. You must have memorized everyone's usernames by now and their moms' maiden names. I'm kind of impressed and also a little worried for your browser history. Please tell me at least half of those posts were just you laughing at people.