>>87021869The short answer is, all slopes are slippery. Eg, if gey goes out of the closet, then straight goes into the closet, and vice versa.
The other short answer is, it depends on how relevant the thing is to power. Eg, if you were to say mcdonalds makes bad food, you probably wouldn't need to worry about crossing power, because hamburgers aren't that relevant to power.
On the other hand, when you have cases of things like disney starwars, where you have people who have converged their 'business model' or indeed their whole identity around propagandizing incumbent regime doctrine, then you basically can't criticize their 'product' without crossing power, because of course it is very relevant to their power. Criticize colleges or networks or (((certain demographics))), then big problems, because very relevant to power. So on and so forth.
More broadly, the question of 'who gets canceled' or not is basically the question of who is the inquisition or not. And that's always at question, because if power is left laying on the table, something will pick it up eventually. Structures of ordination always cohere. No throne goes unoccupied.
In more civilized times, it would not be up to 'lay people' at all. The question is answered by whatever the lord or his bishop says; if peace, then everyone makes peace, and if war, then everyone makes war, and woe betide any renegades who breaks faith.
The actual thing that was literally called the inquisition in history was created to put a stop to an epidemic of literal witch hunts amongst townspeople across spain, to get to the bottom of spiteful neighbors accusing those they saw as social rivals of trucking with the devil in hopes they get destroyed.
There is always and already a state church, the orientation of media and information and status.
One of the biggest troubles with the state of affairs to day though, is that this structure is purposefully occulted, and worse, unswervably mutable; every player seeks to act as their own self-appointed archbishops, voluntary auxiliary thought police, and this creates accelerating feedback loops of mutually precipitating adulturation that converge on anti-cosmic insanity regardless of original starting point. It is in the interest of every singular player to create ever more avant-guard innovations of doctrine to outflank their neighbors, discover ever new forms of heresy ('oppression') to censor their peers over, pronounce ever more accessible forms of holiness ('victimhood') to arrogate higher status - lest they themselves get outflanked in turn, and left behind in the red queen game, the negative sum treadmill of signaling singularities.
You must follow the rules; but it is also against the rules to know what the rules are; and it is especially against the rules to publicly speak about what the rules are. Such is life in The Zone.
