On argumentation and shaming
The cancel culture discourse is using "criticism" in two very different ways.
In recent weeks, I’ve touched on a few different points of incoherence and inconsistency that I see coming from the critics of cancel culture. To shift gears a little, however, I’d like to talk about a certain conflation I see from its partisans: the rhetorical merger of “argumentation” and “shaming” under the label “criticism”. Because while both share…