Comments by "robs2020" (@sbor2020) on "Nigel Farage and Dehenna Davison discuss the rise of cancel culture and its real world consequences" video.
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@marketsolutionsdigital1238 In the early days of youtube, one could have a really good discussion on issues of economics, and culture. One could have a knock around and people would be respectful. Nowadays, people call others stupid and there is name calling and a general decline in the civility and intellectual engagement. Throwing around terms like ''ultra woke brigade'' will no doubt keep connected to your filter bubble and others will ''like'' your comments. However, is that the atomised world you want to live in? This kind of argumentation doesn't help people to see why you think the way you do and it doesn't help that you are blind to the reasoning of many that you opposed. GB News support this polarisation because it is the agenda of their off-shore billionaire backers. Yes, there are people on both side so far down the rabbit hole that they disappear up their own recta (to mix metaphors). But that is no reason to follow!!
As Einstein said, ''This world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.''
Next time, before calling people names, think how. you can intellectually challenge arguments with reasons and evidence, and not simply throwing around idiotic phrases like ''ultra woke brigade'', and how you can also be civil. Have a good day.
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@cartwright8920 There are four main reasons for this.
Firstly, anti-intellectualism. Those in favour of reasoned arguments with substantiated claims will no doubt find GB News a hostile environment. Like social media, it is a quick fix rather than long-form. There are several guests, such as Douglas Murray that have intellectual heft, the rest are wanting. Tabloid journalism is always ‚‘tell me what to think!!‘ and there is a lot of that here. Making a complex issue simple, rather than understanding the complexity is the GB News agenda.
Secondly, GB News does indeed rely on a captive audience. By captive, I mean there is a Stockholm Syndrome element to this. This partisan attitude is unable to see a reasoned argument or are unable to see another viewpoint. This is a‚‘‘footballisation of politics.‘‘ This includes you saying that I was not smart.
Thirdly, GB News is the self-stated main opponent of cancel culture, However, recently, I included a comment that consisted of six headlines from the Daily Express, which all contained the words ‚‘Brexit‘ and ‚‘nightmare‘. The self-proclaimed purveyor of ant-woke cancel culture deleted the comment. What is more, there is no real agreement of what woke is. To prarphrase the famous quote from the 1964 Lady Chatterley obcenity trial ‚‘I don’t know what woke is, but I know it when I see it.‘ There is moral crusade in the Mary Whitehouse line here, which would be distasteful to the ‚‘free speech‘ faction. Isn’t woke another form of ‚‘respect people and don’t be an a**hole.‘? A fine philosophy of life.
Finally, the idea that GB News is not mainstream media is laudable though not strictly true. When a channel begins with £60 million seed money from billionaire financiers in an attempt to re-callibrate a cultural rightwards drift, it is in the forefront of right-wing mainstream media such as The Sun, Fox News in the US.
I would normally not answer people who have an anonymous troll profile, but since you seem to be held captive, I might as well waste my time encouraging some meaningless factionalism.
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