Wrong-thinkers in Europe vs America

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In Europe, he says, that people would treat someone like that as an outcast. You’d slowly stop getting invitations to parties, friends would stop calling, and you’d fade away into oblivion. But there won’t be mobs with pitchforks coming after you. No pile ons. No angry people screaming at you. No spit coming dangerously close to your radius.

On the other hand, when it comes to American culture—the way he sees it—things have the potential to go absolutely wild. We all know by now what “cancel culture” looks like, especially online.

But, he asserted, there’s one particular difference: Allies.

In Europe people won’t speak awful nothings directly to your face, you’d just be quietly erased. But you won’t have any allies. In North America, he insists, while you’d have harsher attacks, you’d also end up with “allies” jumping in to defend you.

Interestingly, he stated that he prefers to be cancelled in the U.S.

My own experience has been mixed. I’ve certainly experienced the mob, wi…