Orthodox Privilege
pg has been opining about so-called &quot;cancel culture&quot; on twitter, and the last paragraph makes it clear that this entire post is his attempt to formulate a response:<p>&gt;Once you realize that orthodox privilege exists, a lot of other things become clearer. For example, how can it be that a large number of reasonable, intelligent people worry about something they call &quot;cancel culture,&quot; while other reasonable, intelligent people deny that it&#x27;s a problem? Once you understand the concept of orthodox privilege, it&#x27;s easy to see the source of this disagreement. If you believe there&#x27;s nothing true that you can&#x27;t say, then anyone who gets in trouble for something they say must deserve it.<p>&quot;Orthodox privilege&quot; is, he sees, why some people are not worried about being &quot;cancelled.&quot; In his mind, these people are saying what is considered correct, so they don&#x27;t fear cancellation. Perhaps this is true for some people, but I think that it is inventing (or at least overscoping) a phenomenon to answer a question that has another, simpler answer.<p>Some people are able to honestly assess their past positions and statements, understand why things could be construed as problematic, and make efforts to better themselves. That, and a sense of what conversations are appropriate for public forums versus informal conversation over drinks, act as pretty great cancellation buffers.