Twitter mob cancels Taliban, makes them apologize for mean things
We live in an age of reason and measured responses. An age of consequences for egregious transgressions being standardized across the board. An age of presenting your best self when stepping out into public or posting online. An age of taking a beat and looking at things calmly and rationally when an offense is perceived to have taken place. An age when people are judged individually and not on superficial similarities among group members. An age when people don’t engage in the creepy behavior of trying to ruin someone’s life for offending or disagreeing with them. An age when the media makes sure to be judicious with an accused person’s name and personal information, paying strict reverence to the unbreakable tenet of “innocent until proven guilty”. An age in which people refuse to meddle in the affairs of others, get mixed up in their lives without all relevant information, or air someone’s dirty laundry online. An age that handles injustices imposed on women with swift severe justice (more on that later). An age that understands that when something is wrong or right for one group of people, it’s wrong or right for all people. An age of judging offenses with zero situational ethics or mitigating factors. An age completely devoid of circular reasoning or basing one’s actions and attitudes on unprovable arguments or capricious emotions. An age of scientific curiosity unhampered by preconceived biases or disrespect for one’s dissenting contemporaries. An age of gritty self-dependence that vehemently refuses to make others responsible for one’s happiness and joy.
So you know when a powerful group flexes its strength and influence over the rest of us, they’re doing it from a position of unquestioned authority and fully informed wisdom. Such is the way of the Twitter Cancel Mob (trademark pending). They have a rigorous screening process for new members so as to not recklessly toy with the lives of those who might be really good people trapped in a bad situation or having an untrue accusation laid on their heads. They are always quick to find the truth, and ever deliberate in the application of punishment. They don’t see themselves as above any of us in righteousness, morals, or status, and handle their role as cultural adjudicators with the utmost of loving care. When they speak, kings, queens, oligarchs, and empires obey.
It was only natural for them to tackle this confounding and distressing Taliban dilemma. Afghanistan is the gave of empires, but they’ve never faced the likes of Cancel (ahem, Consequence) Culture. They’ve never squared up against people who’ve got so much going on in their lives and have so much to lose that they always handle weighty matters of holding others accountable for their misdeeds surgically and clinically. It’s a beautiful thing, really, seeing them in action. Like watching a poet conjuring rhymes to describe the world’s greatest ballet dancer plying her trade.
The Mob put their latest “who’s racist today project on hold (spoiler alert: the person was white so they were found to be guilty of racism) and turned their thoughts on what to do with this thorn-in-everyone’s-side Taliban. Little did we know how easy it was going to be. For when the Mob simply turned their gaze on the Taliban and canceled them for their human rights violations, horrific treatment of women, policing of speech and cultural output, these little men turned tail and ran. They abdicated their power, fell to their knees, gave rights, books, education, agency, and self-determination back to their women, apologized profusely and fled to their caves. Woe to any would-be dictators, fascists, or warlike alien society with an eye to conquer and oppress. The Canceling be on thy and thy children’s heads. Thou hast been warned.
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https://apnews.com/article/taliban-takeover-afghanistan-what-to-know-1a74c9cd866866f196c478aba21b60b6
