If you are not aware, cancel culture refers to the public shaming, mostly on social media, of someone for saying or doing something deemed offensive.\u00a0 It can end careers, or at least cause major derailment, quickly- people love piling on.<\/p>\n
This phenomenon started, as so many bad things do, as a good thing.\u00a0 Public figures are, well, public, and if they are spouting racist, homophobic, or otherwise hateful things, they should be called out.<\/p>\n
However, it’s also true that everyone makes mistakes.\u00a0 None of us can say that, in a moment of anger or another strong emotion, said something really hurtful.\u00a0 Maybe even hateful.\u00a0 Hopefully, once cooler heads prevailed, you were able to go to that person, offer a sincere apology, and make amends.\u00a0 And here is where cancel culture goes off the rails.\u00a0 \u00a0Once you have been deemed a bad person by the culture police you are bad for life.\u00a0 Apologies are seen as only being made because you got called out.\u00a0 There is no room for redemption, no room for having a learning experience and growing from it.<\/p>\n
And to make matter worse,\u00a0 it’s not just what you do today that can get you in hot water.\u00a0 Actors are being called out for supposed sins they committed years or even decades ago.\u00a0 For voicing an animated character of a different race.\u00a0 For playing a gay character when they are straight (I could write an entire post about why that is SO WRONG, but I digress).\u00a0 For getting married at a place with the word “Plantation” in its name (yes really).\u00a0 For being involved in a movie that was made 35 years ago that doesn’t reflect the standards of 2020- typically in terms of its treatment of women and\/ or minorities- but that was perfectly fine by the standards of when it was actually made.<\/p>\n
Now, i’m not saying that it’s a bad thing standards have changed.\u00a0 They absolutely should as we evolve as a people. But getting mad because someone didn’t have a time machine 30 years ago?\u00a0 That’s just stupid.<\/p>\n
So, I’m calling for a cancellation of cancel culture.\u00a0 Of knee jerk reactions to minor offences that are blown into much bigger deals that they should be.\u00a0 Of being mad that people made a movie you didn’t like 10 years before you were born.\u00a0 Of thinking you are so superior that you can and should decide who is good and who is bad.\u00a0 Just get over yourselves already,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you are not aware, cancel culture refers to the public shaming, mostly on social media, of someone for saying or doing something deemed offensive.\u00a0 It can end careers, or at least cause major derailment, quickly- people love piling on. This phenomenon started, as so many bad things do, as a good thing.\u00a0 Public figures are, well, public, and if… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t