Chapter 3: A New Pyre
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
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Cancel Culture
The sensitive, politically correct culture of Tumblr is driven to greater and greater extremes because they see the enemy culture that comes from places like 4chan. And so we had to deal with a new sort of mean, cruel quality to the internet. I think there's a lot of kind of free form aggression in search of a target. Freud discusses this, like, morality can be sadistic,. The sadistic super-ego, he calls it. You know, that idea is that you kind of use that kind of punishing, shaming moral condemnation.
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