NOV 5, 2019 11:03 AM
CANCEL CULTURE IS NOT A THING
There is no such thing as “Cancel Culture” . Canceling requires power to deplatform or to stop publishing or promoting the individual persons cultural production. The publisher can cancel but the audience cannot. We can choose how to spend our time, what to celebrate, but we cannot prevent the individual from producing their content. We can only behave in ways that keep us accountable to each other. “Canceling” is sometimes used as a synonym for “Call Out Culture” but the action of Calling Out is not the same as the community or institution taking action based on the call out. “Canceling” refers to those who have done verifiably harmful actions, were called out by many people, and received negative repercussions based on the process begun by public accountability. Most times “Cancel Culture” is a term used to refer to justice based advocacy but in my experience the people who receive actual negative repercussions such as being prevented from accessing employment, community shunning, public harassment, and physical harm are people from marginalized communities. “Cancel Culture” is not a thing, but if it was a term used accurately it would refer to conservative status quo oppressive actions like careers harmed by anti-LGTBQ heterosexism, anti-blackness, etc.
-Cancel Culture: What Exactly Is This Thing? by Katie Herzog • Sep 17, 2019
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/17/41416013/cancel-culture-what-exactly-is-this-thing
-The “Cancel Culture” Con By OSITA NWANEVU September 23, 2019
https://newrepublic.com/article/155141/cancel-culture-con-dave-chappelle-shane-gillis
-websters dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/cancel-culture-words-were-watching
-wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-out_culture
-The Misplaced Hysteria About a ‘Cancel Culture’ That Doesn’t Actually Exist by Danielle Butler 10/23/18
—http://www.newnownext.com/backlash-what-happened-to-ellen-degeneres-after-she-came-out/04/2017/
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