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Cancel Culture

Cancel culture refers to the practice of withdrawing support for public figures or entities after offensive or objectionable actions or statements. It often involves online boycotts or public shaming on social media to hold individuals accountable. While it allows marginalized voices to seek accountability, cancel culture can amount to online bullying and threats that are worse than the original offense. It also risks becoming intolerance that excludes dissenting views. Cancelling someone unfairly through incomplete facts can damage their reputation and mental health with serious long-term consequences, even after apologies. Therefore, individuals must use the power of social media responsibly and carefully consider the impact of their posts.

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Cancel Culture

Cancel culture refers to the practice of withdrawing support for public figures or entities after offensive or objectionable actions or statements. It often involves online boycotts or public shaming on social media to hold individuals accountable. While it allows marginalized voices to seek accountability, cancel culture can amount to online bullying and threats that are worse than the original offense. It also risks becoming intolerance that excludes dissenting views. Cancelling someone unfairly through incomplete facts can damage their reputation and mental health with serious long-term consequences, even after apologies. Therefore, individuals must use the power of social media responsibly and carefully consider the impact of their posts.

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Cancel Culture: The Mass Withdrawal of Support

Mob mentality. A modern social justice practice. An impediment to free speech. A


platform for marginalized voices. Call it what you will. Cancel culture is a concept so hotly
debated that it remains in limbo, much like many individuals’ attitudes toward it.
The rise of “cancel culture” and the idea of canceling someone coincides with a familiar
pattern: A celebrity or other public figure does or says something offensive. A public backlash,
often fueled by politically progressive social media, ensues. “Cancel culture” is a term used to
describe the practice of withdrawing support for public figures or entities after they have done
or said something considered offensive or objectionable. It often involves a social media-driven
boycott or public shaming, with the aim of holding individuals or organizations accountable for
their actions or statements. In other words to cancel someone (usually a celebrity or other well-
known figure) means to stop giving support to that person.
Although cancel culture allows marginalized people to seek accountability where the
justice system fails, gives a voice to disenfranchised or less powerful people and simply a new
form of boycott, a cherished tactic in the civil rights movement, to bring about social change it
can amount to online bullying, and can incite violence and threats even worse than the original
offense being called out when done improperly. “Canceling is a way to acknowledge that you
don’t have to have the power to change structural inequality. You don’t even have to have the
power to change all of public sentiment. But as an individual, you can still have power beyond
measure.” Charity Hudley said. From that perspective, cancel culture can serve as a corrective
for the sense of powerlessness that many people feel. But as it has gained mainstream
attention, cancel culture has also seemed to gain a more material power — at least in the eyes
of the many people who’d like to, well, cancel it. “I think cancel culture can reflect awareness
that people are not willing to accept things that they used to accept or have not been able to
resist in the past, but in some ways it’s a moral panic” says Stanfill.
Cancel culture focusing on the effect whereby discussion is limited by a desire to
maintain one certain viewpoint, whereas consequence culture focuses on the idea that those
who write or publish opinions or make statements should bear some responsibility for the
effects of these as cancel culture is a slippery slope and leads to intolerance in democratic
societies as people systematically exclude anyone who disagrees with their views. Canceling
often becomes bullying that can damage a person’s reputation, even if they are innocent. As a
result, people may be unfairly judged and criticized without the full facts being known.
Sometimes, it can have serious consequences that follow a person, even if the accused
apologizes and retracts their statements. This further creates feelings of loneliness, anxiety and
depression in the person being canceled that may lead to death. Cancelling is a great power
every individual holds through social media, therefore everyone must be responsible on what
they post on social media. Think before you click.

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