The Historian's Guide to Getting Cancelled

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‘Cancel culture’ isn’t new. Well, not entirely.
There’s no denying that the advent of smartphones and Twitter has played a huge part in online outrage. It’s also true that internet mobs behave differently from their off-world counterparts. But for the most part, ex-communicating people for violating social norms is part of human nature. The inevitability means it will be with us forever.
There is good news though. Cancel culture has happened so many times before that there are plenty of world examples to help you escape its clutches, and plenty of lessons to help understand how this hive-mind works. However, be warned. Just like evolutionary biology, cancel culture adapts. New words are coined, old arguments are given a makeover and sooner or later a new target is chosen. So, heed these lessons from humanity’s past if you don’t want to become a persona non grata. Unless you’re ready to become a martyr of course!
It’s time to learn how history works as we present ‘A Historical Guide to Surviving Cancel Culture’.
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[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd" - Bertrand Russell

[@1979benmitchell]

I'm not a fan of Mr Russel.. But when you're right... You are right.

[@jtgd]

You’re gonna get people triggered when they realize ostracism isn’t new

[@NY_Mountain_Man]

I'm actually a former conservative (not proud of it). They know ostracism is a thing, they just don't want it talked about because it reminds them that they're the ones also being ostracized. Morality fits necessity, as it were.

[@jonathanpalmer228]

​@Gay_Mountain_Man lmao what? He was talking about the dummy demo

[@sandran17]

wait until they find out about the existence of Ostriches!

[@NY_Mountain_Man]

@@jonathanpalmer228 So do you have a brain or do you just not choose to use it?

[@sandran17]

Cancel culture can go too far where people jump onto something they care deeply about without taking a second to get the context. But at the same time, I've seen far too many god awful human beings do or say objectively terrible things then wail cancel culture like its some magical social shield to any legitimate criticism.

[@ChaadFairservice20022]

Congress made it illegal to boycott izr3el. Piss off.

[@wilfredpeake9987]

Thats why i follow the motto "who gives a shit".

[@me0101001000]

Exactly. If you can't beat them, don't join them; ignore them.

[@legalise.nuclearbombs]

What the hell ? Clicked on this video while doing the compulsory late night scrolling on a week night but this isn't garbage this is insightful as fuck ???? Incredible work

[@HowHistoryWorks]

Thank you!

[@bootymuncher420]

Suckup

[@linussteiner7651]

I did not expect the spanish inquisition😂

[@me0101001000]

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION I'm sorry, I couldn't resist

[@bebopuk]

@@me0101001000 Dang literally bet me to it X-D

[@draneym2003]

Ever notice how the "cancelled" still have careers and make insane money? For example, the "cancelled " Dave Chappelle comedy tour had a sold out night in Pittsburgh last month.

[@Hardin9]

Cancel culture just because it does not have a disparate impact on someone who's rich like Dave Chappell does not mean it is not a problem, Cancel culture is a threat to civil liberties like freedom of speech, freedom of association, and others. If don't care about a rich guy like Dave Chappell, so be it, but think about how it impacts a POOR MAN who is subjected to it who does NOT have the financial power to shield himself from it!

[@cbbcbb6803]

As for America (the "new"world), the pilgrims (and their likes elsewhere) and the "Non pilgrims" (and their likes elsewhere) tried to cancel each other in England and in the rest of Europe. Then, the pilgrims (and their likes) took their brand of cancelations to the "new" world.

[@the11382]

The Puritans were in the Dutch republic before going to the new world. They left because the Dutch were considered "too tolerant". The Puritans were religious extremists.

[@botcontador3286]

Video: Look at all these terrible things that happened to people throughout history for making comments. Also video: Put your comment down bellow.

[@dk7233]

Underrated 😂

[@Interceptor810]

one of the biggest instances of cancel culture not mentioned was what happened to Dixie Chicks. During a concert in London they said they were ashamed to be from Texas because of Bush and were against the invasion of Iraq. They received thousands of death threats, Lipton cancelled their promotional contracts, sales of their albums dropped.

[@JoJoJoker]

Nowadays people get cancelled for *not* bashing their own country.

[@rbgerald2469]

​​@@JoJoJokerSo it's wrong to criticise a country's history? Or learn it's dark side so that it won't be repeated?

[@jonathanmantle2364]

I literally came across this channel today. Literally love it!!! The structure, argument, facts, references, and descriptions are amazing. Well done How history works!!!

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

Political correctness exists in every time and every culture. The only thing that changes is what is considered unacceptable. For example it may today be considered unacceptable to say bad things about homosexuals or Jews or Africans or any other group but go back a few decades and saying good things about these same groups could get you in trouble. Some people praise Russia because you can say bad things about homosexuality there but it’s not like they have more free speech. Try saying anything positive about homosexuality in Russia and you are likely to go to prison rather than just being banned from social media. I’m glad this video talk about this because it’s nothing new. And yes the claiming the youth has no morals is as old as time. Every single generation thinks the one that comes after is worse. I remember hearing about a Roman emperor talking about how the youth had no morals and don’t stay married and just care about themselves and their pleasures and it would be the downfall of civilisation that men and women don’t stay together in marriage. You hear the exact same thing from some people today. Two millennia later nothing has changed.

[@Hardin9]

Homosexuals, Jews, Africans, you equated 3 subject matters that are mutually exclusive to each other, why?

[@HeinzFugenstie]

Ah so that is where "we've investigated ourselves and determined we have done nothing wrong" comes from.

[@glamglam8347]

the blonde lady wouldve def been canceled today. karen witchunts werent too long ago so i doubt she would be considered a "hero/comedian" like you said. the people you named in comparison to her were also celebs who (at least) have fans to fight the mob for them. its harder to cancel a dave chapelle than some random white lady online .

[@pbbunnyz1784]

Yeah "hope I dont get aids just kidding im white" isnt very funny, she shouldve just made a better joke if she wanted to punch down on white privilege. Or alternatively, dont try to be a comedian on controversial topics.

[@me0101001000]

Cancel Culture is as old as society. I really don't think that fighting it is any use. But rather than trying to beat them, or join them, this is one problem which I do think can just be ignored.

[@arnold-ho8kh]

Laughing at them is also a good idea. Comedy is a powerful tool!

[@BygoneT]

You can only ignore it If you're not its target. Cancel culture is like bullying, we have no real solution and it keeps coming back, stepping up means being targeted by someone on some other level.

[@beskamir5977]

Can't be cancelled if you're a ghost online. 🤔

[@Watch-0w1]

If they're desperate enough they will find a way

[@beskamir5977]

@@Watch-0w1I'm not super anonymous with this account, but it'd still require a bit more effort on their part than just posting an angry tweet. And type of cancel warriors I'd probably attract are the kind who's ideology encourages laziness. So I'm not really all that worried.

[@idiot-is-not-sure]

justine sacco was not cancelled she transferred to another company for a new job and was back a year latter

[@FriscoFlame]

I disagree with the point about Justine Sacco...it wasn't the calendar, it was the occupation. It would be perfectly fine for a Trevor Noah or John Oliver show or Even to a lesser extent. Bill Maher. The context in that case would be clear that it is a show that is comedy which exaggerates terrible things about the world to humorous effect as satire. A person whose job is public relations executive doesn't have the same contextual benefit.

[@alexanderveritas]

_”Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get _*_AIDS._*_ Just kidding. I’m white!”_ Funniest shit I’ve ever heard.

[@UnbekannterSoldat74]

Also quite funny is how ancien regimes tried to cancel the french revolution. While the revolution at the same time tried to cancel religion out of society as much as possible.

[@hugeuglygorillaz9599]

Lenny Bruce is a personal hero of mine and he said a bit more than what you mentioned. See the bit he did that contains the quote "...it is the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness..."

[@TheGreySpectrum]

Socrates did not say that. It was attributed to him long after his death.

[@NY_Mountain_Man]

Poor Ignaz... I can relate, buddy. Also, good video! This is helping me resolve a series of personal problems for me. Thanks.

[@Vlasko60]

7:15 "You can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into" is complete BS. Most people aren't reasoned into religion, they're raised with it and/or threatened by it, but they can be reasoned out of it. That's what happened to me and many, many others.

[@user-mg4yw9yc7l]

V that's a good point. 从 m

[@kalex7370]

Why would I want to be reasoned out of reason?

[@RBzee112]

You can't be reasoned out of a belief by someone else. You can only reach that conclusion on your own.

[@Vlasko60]

@@RBzee112 No one reaches any conclusion by themselves. They use information gathered by others at the very least.

[@andreiamuhitu159]

I would have loved to know this 10 years ago. Would have saved me a headache

[@Winston0Boogie]

Poor Lenny. Many people destroyed the man's life.

[@armorbearer9702]

It is scary how people cancel without knowing all the facts or doing a little research.

[@charlottewolery558]

So if apologizing to the mob won't work, how would telling them to lick my cheeks (as the German idiom goes) until they gleamed like polished bowling balls do to illicit a reaction?

[@Remi_lulz]

4:04 he found out wahsing your hand lead to less miscarriages/nasty infections during birth

[@ariebrons7976]

It happened in 2020 during the Armeni Azeri conflict. I wrote a comment condemning the war. Maybe this got me banned, but YT never confirmed or denyed this.

[@1979benmitchell]

We miss you, Captain Jack!!

[@bravocharlie1428]

This was a great video! I can't wait til my request to cancel it is onored by youtube

[@Kushagra.j]

All i know is that cancel culture is bad for both spectrums. This is a beast that once unleashed will not be subdued. Today libreals are enjoying it tomorrow conservatives will. Its a cycle, one's on top then the other but the concept of cancellation by a group towards an individual with whom they have diametrically opposite point views is very unfortunate sadly!

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

Conservatives just like to cancel wee-little things like Jewish people, LGBT people, immigrants, etc. It's central to their doctrine. Cancel culture is intrinsic to being a reactionary. Also, liberal is not left, but non-extreme right wing. The distortion is part of ensnaring your mind to get you thinking in a false dichotomy. It creates the mental bias that if you're not one, you must be the other.

[@alanfike]

Henry the VII got cancelled. Hah. Haha. Hahahahahahahahah and he took it all BACK!!

[@idiot-is-not-sure]

and both moves were promotions

[@EunjungSonBCY]

TRO is that you!? 😲

[@michaell3105]

BANISH THEM

[@desolation0]

Using AIDS as a setup for a punchline, even South Park rarely goes there. It would still be out of place on late night left wing political comedy shows today, and with good reason, even if the message was actually about white privilege rather than taking a whole continent having an AIDS problem as the joke. Conflating all of these extremely different instances under the heading of 'cancel culture' does more to muddy the topic than provide any useful insights. As does ignoring instances where the subject remained a persona non grata and we still agree with that decision. The whole thing seemed to work backwards from the premise of modern cancel culture being bad rather than taking an actual historical and sociological view of the practice.

[@X_TheHuntsman_X]

Man, why is KZbin recommending this dogwater?

[@burner555]

Because catwater is rare

[@lesslycarthan956]

Refer madness 1936 was canceled culture.daily I scan cable tv and stars to see what's coming on because old film's are edited on cable yes cable. Bull@h😮t becomes bull or bullocky.eddie Murphy laughing at 2 guys dressed as Michael Jackson in Beverly hills cop cut out I've watched 1000s of movie's on tv and I say I can't watch this edited stuff I buy the DVD and watch it in its entirety

[@hassanalbolkiah127]

Only difference is Rushdie did the Middle Eastern equivalent of Holocaust denial, dug up some obscure text from ancient times and tried to pass it off as legitimate despite him not having any degrees let alone being a historian. The historian John Burton-Page wrote a paper on it called "THOSE ARE THE HIGH-FLYING CRANES"

[@YassoKuhl]

Seems like a reasonable reason to death threat or stab sb... smh

[@YassoKuhl]

Btw, have you read the book?

[@ItsMeChillTyme]

are you out of your mind?

[@bebopuk]

You're going to have to elaborate on that 'Middle Eastern Holocaust' point. And what is this illegitimate text that he tried to pass off as real? Please don't tell me you think a work of fiction is proof of his real opinion.

[@hassanalbolkiah127]

@@bebopuk There were some forgeries made in the 12th century called "the verses of the cranes" which the forger back then claimed were "apart of the Quran" it was dismissed and nobody paid it any attention cause that's all it was a forgery. Some British historians touched on these forgeries in the 18th century again, but again nobody paid much attention to it. rushdie basically dug these up and went around claiming they were real (cause he's an atheist and wanted to "trigger the Muslims, and he of course got the response he was looking for), similarly to how Afro-centrists attempt to claim they were Egyptians, or liberals claim there were tons of black people who were royalty in Victorian England

[@2011mrmidomido]

I think you misunderstood something. It wasn't far right Muslims that hated Rushdie. All Muslims hated and still do hate him. The "Satanic Verses" as a word weren't even known by Arabs and was uttered by westerner's who used it despite not even understanding that it was a lie by idolaters of the time. Not to mention that Salman wrote anything and everything he could to rile up Muslims, from the use of the names of the Prophet's wifes as brothel girls, to using deragtory words used by the crusaders and the name of Sala-din as a the devil. Salman used to write about how bad the USA was and their controversies but he then did this. It's like Martin Luther King declaring his love for slavery, or JFK appreciating the FBI. It's actally fortunate that most people didn't read the book. because if they did, Petitions to have him publicly excuted would have likely been raised.

[@awsomesauceify]

It's fascinating that someone could so eloquently downplay a group wide immoral urge to kill someone.

[@2011mrmidomido]

@@awsomesauceify I am not trying to downplay Mob Mentality. Trying to kill someone because you don't agree with their thoughts or point of view is sickenning. I was just pointing out how much Rushdie's book ratled and hurt the feelings of all muslims, not just the extermists. I don't agree with his murder but I also don't agree with what he wrote. Also, Sorryy if I spooked you by replying so fast.

[@radkovicbe]

In some of your recent videos, you may have noticed a couple complaints about the quality, both here and on "How Money Works." You may also have noticed that those complaints have fallen silent. Brilliant video, entertaining, insightful, well-researched and concise without compromising content. Brilliant job. Good on ya