[Controversial Subjects] Cancel Culture - the good, the bad or the ugly?

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01.05.2022 11:50:58
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The first topic in Controversial Subjects series is (un)popular Cancel Culture.

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What are your opinions on that topic? Is it good, bad or ugly? Is it toxic? If yes, does cancel culture have some positive side that potentially outweighs its toxicity? What would be possible positive sides of cancel culture? Can it teach us something? Is it abusive? Or, abused? Has cancel culture become a trend, common place or cliche? Is it about to cancel itself? Can we treat it as a relevant parameter of global sentiment? If yes/no explain why and how. ...etc.

Reply on some of these questions you find as fitting and ask new. Then, next poster can reply to your question/s and ask another and so on... Keep it going, don't cancel!
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01.05.2022 11:52:00
YasSlayPuthy69

HONESTLY cancel culture is soo good if its for pedos and sex offenders but if someone says a no-no word when theyre like 12, they shouldnt have their whooole career ruined lykeee its so dumb X

01.05.2022 11:52:00
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Freethinkerland
01.05.2022 11:52:50
yellowpiss

cancel culture is annoying like who cares if someone i dont know about said the n word. but in other cases its good bcs some people really dont deserve a platform
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01.05.2022 11:52:50

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01.05.2022 12:04:11
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Cancel culture treads on the line of something actually useful and pure mob mentality madness. In many cases it's a "guilty until proven innocent" practice which is executed on people based on rumors and no concrete evidence/faked evidence. (ex; Johnny Depp fiasco) It's also much more biased towards punishing women, since their criticism has always came easier to the mob. The key part of the inherent toxicity is not viewing people as growing, evolving beings who change opinions and worldview over time. For some that is not the case - but differentiation gets lost in internet chaos. Some deserve no platform, some get theirs taken away unfairly. It's up to the individual to keep their critical thinking skills in check xoxo 

01.05.2022 12:04:11
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01.05.2022 12:04:14
Mibs

you mean accountability culture? yeah it's terrible for the assholes of this world, especially the ones with the class advantages that allow them to circumvent legal repercussions for, y'know, being assholes

01.05.2022 12:04:14
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01.05.2022 12:12:17
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In a way it’s nice that we as a community have a word in certain important topics, but some situations have definitely been blown out of proportion. It for sure serves justice to the people that have caused serious harm to the world, but it ultimately takes a zoomed-in look on a person from the past and fails to acknowledge the person in the present who has learned and evolved from their past misdoings. I think that every case is to be judged and evaluated individually, but “cancel culture” should not be a thing that some certain communities can just throw around to ruin careers. Overall quite a sensitive topic
Some people may deserve it, some people may deserve another chance, but there is definitely is very thin line when cancelling can become abused, abusive and ugly toxic. I think if it’s ever teated as a trend or a cliche then we are on the wrong way

01.05.2022 12:12:17
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Freethinkerland
01.05.2022 12:14:53
crystalcafe

cancel culture should be about exposing predators not old tweets 

01.05.2022 12:14:53
some boys think they're predators when they're really vultures
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Freethinkerland
01.05.2022 12:17:54
Reignee

hmm... i think cancel culture has been around for centuries, people and artworks have always been exiled and publicly shamed for not fitting the expectations and moral dogma of whatever the dominant culture is at the time. it's not new, but it's evolved for the 21st century.

sometimes it leads to positive change, sometimes it's abused by opportunists who just want to shut down and ostracise people they don't like, regardless of how much they may have changed as a person. a lot of tiktok-teens are very unproductive and use "cancelling" as a thin veneer for bullying, and even adults on twitter get weirdly obsessed with it, because they want to be seen as a superhero stomping out all the bad guys lol - the effects of reading too many marvel comics.

cancelling should be reserved for those who have done crimes against humanity, and those who are through and through bigots who never learn or grow out of that toxicity. also, if someone terrible made incredible or otherwise noteworthy work, that should be treated critically and with nuance, rather than written out of history. i think trying to write bigots and oppressive people out of history actually reflects bad on us, because to me it looks more like an act of denial that those oppressive and toxic sentiments in society existed and deeply hurt so many communities.

01.05.2022 12:17:54
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Antitheocra
01.05.2022 12:24:23
viviolet

idk like yeah bringing up old tweets is dumb but if theyre being a nazi in those tweets its kinda like wow that person should not have a platform... also it affects women and celebs people dont like may more than say tom holland or something. people r still on jihyo and wendy's (female kpop stars) case for being racially insensitive years ago when nobody talks about all of bts saying the n-word in a performance

justice for the japanese esports pro who got cancelled for saying men under 5'7" dont deserve rights, she was right and we need more girlbosses like her

01.05.2022 12:24:23
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01.05.2022 12:32:53
AuntieLice

It started as something positive, a way to hold people like rapists or pedos who used their status to avoid repercussions accountable, but it has turned into something ridiculous. Canceling people for using slurs when they were teens, doing black face in the 70s, wearing items of clothing from different cultures (while  the ones doing the canceling have no understanding of the said cultures), not speaking up on every political issue etc. A lot of it is a product of American extremist attitudes and their lack of education often comes through. The irony is that a lot of people who take part in this behavior claim to be against bigotry (I'd argue extreme conservatives are actually more often the ones who participate in the actual cancel culture, but when the cancel culture is discussed today it mostly always refers to the liberal side of things which is why I'm referring to that one here) , but are obviously bigoted themselves, just look the types of things women get canceled for and then how much more it takes to cancel men. It also creates this echo chamber that silences free discussion and makes it seem as if the entire world agrees with this mentality. Majority of the people disagree with stuff like cultural appropriation or non binary issue, but are scared to talk about it online so they don't get canceled.

01.05.2022 12:32:53
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