Boycotting ideas and encouraging others to do the same and silencing speech with more speech absolutely is competition in the marketplace. And that has always and will always include economic pressure and consequences.
It’s also something that the (whatever pejorative of your choice) right has been doing for decades. Go whine to Colin Kapernick about “cancel culture”....Paul Robeson....Billie Holiday...The Hollywood Ten...Kathy Griffin...it literally taking a Supreme Court decision recognizing and ordering government to recognize gay marriage...Trump’s incessant attempts to silence literally any and everyone who disagreed with him and encouraging his minions to do the same...Gamergate... every Republican that called out Trump or voted to impeach is facing censure from their own party, promises to get primaried, and destroyed politically for not showing sufficient fealty.
The right is whining about supposed “cancel culture” now because the left has gotten better at doing what the right has been doing for decades. Social media has leveled the playing field, broadened the market, and has let the rank and file little guy get in on the judging and discourse. They’re losing the competition and tactics they have engaged in for decades now that the masses have a little power in the marketplace, so suddenly big scary “cancel culture” is the crisis du juor.
You reap what you sow, I say.
The left is “gotten better” at cancel culture?? C’mon. There is no doubt you can list several examples of the right acting that way, but the left doesn’t do it better ...they do it a lot more. Cancel culture is bad, not good. They are worse, and it is not close.
Certainly there are groups on the right that engage in victimization and attempt to silence voices that they disagree. But to even attempt to compare the right does it in even remotely the same amount is not being truthful and showing bias. Even liberal Bill Mahar has been denouncing the left on this subject and has stated plainly this a ”Democrat issue”.
You will find a couple of examples of the right complaining about what someone did or said, but there are myriad examples of the left wanting to silence voices, get people fired from job, or expelled from school for something as silly as a tweet that occurred ten years ago or liking a tweet from someone the left doesn’t like.
The need to join the victimization culture outpaces the personal supply of being victimized. Too many people have a strong desire to feel hurt, be victimized, and be outraged. All that is fine, but when their victimization needs cause real injury to others...that is a problem.