Will there be another high-profile cancellation a la James Damore or Tim Hunt by EOY?
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Any cancellation of someone for holding non-left views reported on by Scott Aaronson, Scott Alexander, or the New York Times is enough to trigger positive resolution. Jan 18, 6:11pm: Losing a job or an honorary title or having to step down, like Damore or Tim Hunt or Stallman. There do need to be some actual professional consequence. It also needs to be over political views of some form or jokes, any sort of *speech* offending left-wing / "woke" sensibilities is enough to trigger positive resolution (Stallman on age of consent, Tim Hunt's jokes, Damore's memo). Boghossian wouldn't trigger because he wasn't notable enough for NYT or the Scotts. Jan 18, 6:11pm: One of the Scotts need to write about it. It either goes on ACX or Shtetl Optimized and it has to be a "woke" cancellation. The title says a la Damore or Hunt.
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no self cancellations like JP and Bari don't count, and the SCOTTS need to talk about it to trigger positive resolution
Does this count? https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-why-i-am-no-longer-a-tenured-professor-at-the-university-of-toronto/wcm/4c000e2b-fabd-4067-a7a5-ed7908fc3643/amp/
Gotcha thanks for clarifying
Lars the Scotts have to write about it and it has to be non-left. Actually let's remove the NYT and write the two Scotts. Scotts very unlikely to write about high profile RW cancellations because there are basically no big ones nowadays.
Does not only count if someone gets cancelled for making left wingers angry, or are we tracking right wing cancellations too? And centrists?
Lars: Losing a job or an honorary title or having to step down, like Damore or Tim Hunt or Stallman. There do need to be some actual professional consequence. It also needs to be over political views of some form or jokes, any sort of *speech* offending left-wing / "woke" sensibilities is enough to trigger positive resolution (Stallman on age of consent, Tim Hunt's jokes, Damore's memo). Boghossian wouldn't trigger because he wasn't notable enough for NYT or the Scotts.
Can you define “cancellation” a bit? Does it mean people being mad at you on Twitter for a few days and making you apologize for something, or does it mean e.g. losing some notable opportunity?

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