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0 pointsluckylion5y ago0 comments

> It is not, in any way, calling for the artist to be canceled.

Please. "I'm not saying we should do something about it, but oh my gosh, look how offensive it is".

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I suppose all criticism is cancel culture if you just pretend the “cancel” part is there.

Criticism != What this article does.

Tone and style makes the difference between criticism and the works of the Schreibtischtäter. It's a great German compound word from Schreibtisch (=desk) and Täter (=perpetrator). It's the person sitting at a desk, keeping their hands clean, writing to make others do the dirty work.

Jonnax5y ago

What dirty work? Didn't this guy get $69 million dollars?

And you're using a word which from the wikipedia article is described as:

"The term "desk murderer" (German: Schreibtischtäter)[1] is attributed to Hannah Arendt and is used to describe state-employed mass murderers like Adolf Eichmann, who planned and organised the Holocaust without taking part in killings personally."

I'm amazed.

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