The progressive blowback against the term “cancel culture”
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Recently, I got mad at a famous person exposed as a predator. I called him out (knowing he'd never read my tweet), shared it with friends, and said I'd never support him.
Except that all of this can end up hurting minorities more than I thought of. And I didn't even think of that as a minority myself. A lot of times, the abused are minorities working for the abuser. They can lose jobs, it might be hard to get more, etc. To me, these days, I'd prefer to give voice to what the minorities directly affected want me to do, not what I think I should do.
So white people approriated something from gay black culture and then warped it beyond belief?
Why am I not surprised?
Everybody's talking about the new sound, funny, but it's still rock n roll to me.
And will happily toss it in the garbage again, once it becomes a threat.
Conservatives had “cancel culture” of their own for decades before this. They did boycotts and fired people for being gay. They also had tax free “safe space” churches and parental warnings and broadcasting standards to inhibit cursing. They’ve had these things all along and wouldn’t you know it just so happens to be one step too far and not worth protection when their hateful ass gets fired for being bigoted enough for society to notice and rightfully call them out. Anyone who buys this argument of “cancel culture is some new bad thing” is doing the work of the Christian Right.
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On the term, when certain meme terms start to get more attention, I try to drop them because of how quickly and easily they often get warped. Social media really changes the natural evolution of slang terms.
I was grabbing this video as soon as I saw the title. Sums up how I feel about it as well.
It might be a word people say now, but I bet for most of human history choosing to disassociate has been a thing, so this in no way should be seen as a new phenomenon or legitimized as such. There is more access to information now than previously, but then that's an entirely different conversation to have, if you believe access to information can have negative consequences.
The first time I ever heard “ ___ is cancelled” was the Poppy and Titanic Sinclair situation, and I was like yeah, Titanic was emotionally abusive if not downright threatening, that makes sense that we wouldn’t support him.
But of course it’s turned into digging through celebrity tweets from 2011 to find a shitty joke they made in college or whatever.
I don’t think cancel culture is the “threat” that right wingers want us to think it is, but it’s probably used too loosely by twitter lol
But of course it’s turned into digging through celebrity tweets from 2011 to find a shitty joke they made in college or whatever.
I don’t think cancel culture is the “threat” that right wingers want us to think it is, but it’s probably used too loosely by twitter lol
With abundant access to information it allows people to be held to a degree of accountability that was previously impossible. I think it's a benefit that we're shaking ourselves from complacency and are able to call attention to things that happened in the past and being able to own them and do better because of it.
Ah, thanks for the info.
Yeah, they like taking a "funny" word, ruining it, and then moving on to the next one without care.
