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KokoroAkechi posted...

"Cancel culture" is actually a bad name for what's going on. it's just one that's been recently used to explain the situation. It's more like Outrage or Call-Out culture i'd say is a better name (also names that have been used but not as commonly in recent times). I'd think those who care or follow this would know that the name doesn't exactly fit the situation.

The point is that the situation is not new or special at all. It's normal social judgment based on public facts and various forms of evidence. The main difference is the platform, which is digital media and such, so the result is people get blocked or unsubscribed instead of stoned in the streets like before.

The real reason "cancel culture" exists is for offenders to dismiss public criticisms towards them which are entirely valid. Even uninformed criticism is valid for example, and it can be your responsibility to clear up misunderstandings (like Jared is trying to do). None of this is new or necessarily bad at all, but framing it as new makes it easy to dismiss as evil or invasive.

The alternative is chilling criticism and giving free passes to everyone as an attempt to rid your life of any self criticism. You can see that a lot of anti-"cancel culture" people aspire to that goal.

Compare it to something like GG which could be defended as "normal public criticism" as well. Except GG was predicated on serious threats and actual damage done to innocent people by the public. It's far beyond social judgment and that's what made it special and bad. Do you really think that's happening with Jared and Louis CK and whoever is crying about cancel culture now? Definitely not.
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