@SixRegrets said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
'Cancel culture' is nothing more than the right's latest replacement for 'political correctness'. If you act like an asshole, you should expect consequences. Contra's bigoted bullshit re: transmedicalism and being best buddies with Buck Angel are more than reason enough for the rest of the transgender community to 'cancel' her.
Except ContraPoints never said anything transmedicalist, nor was she aware with Buck Angel's views at the time of asking him to voice one line in her video (after he approached her saying he was a fan and suggesting for a collaboration), nor are they best buds, having never communicated prior to that point.
And even if none of that was true, and she was, indeed, a transmedicalist best bud of Buck Angel, it doesn't justify the targeted harassment campaign and hate mob she received, or that endured by anyone she's ever been associated with for failing to publicly cancel their friend over a single misstep.
ContraPoints never asked to be on a pedestal, but that's where society puts marginalised voices when they speak up, expecting them to now act as a token representation of their entire community. (She has repeatedly said she doesn't want this.) A single crack in that pedestal gets the hatred they endure amplified, and now not only are they not the best, goodest angel in the world, they're the worst evil demon bitch monster who must be destroyed. This is purity politics and it's shit for everyone involved, especially since it almost always targets people who are actually trying, and it disproportionately affects marginalised voices rather than hegemonic normies. Has anyone cancelled Brad Pitt for, I don't know, not going out of his way to speak up for gay rights and Black Lives Matter or something? No. Even Stephen King has to say the literal bare minimum of "trans women are women" for people to clap and hail him as a hero despite a long history of being a bumbling boomer with foot-in-mouth disease.