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Cancel culture
tkdog
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Is there a space for cancel culture?
What do you think?
I think personally if someone is obviously doing harmful things they should be.
Or within a certain group someone might get cancelled. But some people don't deserve to be like over a tweet or something they said 7 years ago so it really depends.
What do you think?
I think personally if someone is obviously doing harmful things they should be.
Or within a certain group someone might get cancelled. But some people don't deserve to be like over a tweet or something they said 7 years ago so it really depends.
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If someone is found to be a predator, absolutely - cancel them a thousand times over. It's a different conversation when someone is knowingly an awful person, and there might be an argument for an industry needing to make an example of someone by firing them for doing bad things.
I guess, for me, it's whether something happens in good faith or bad faith. If someone is acting in good faith, it seems damaging (to them and to society) to cancel them. If someone is acting in bad faith, like a corrupt politician or a serial abuser, they need to go.
I've been back and forth on this one personally, so it's interesting to read what y'all think.
However, there most definitely is a line with cancel culture with firstly what cancelling is, how it differs from de-platforming and especially those people who have been cancelled time and time again yet still have a platform and wide influence. I think one of the biggest issues with 'cancel culture' is that it has come to a point that if any person speaks out about how a CCs actions or words has negatively effected them or their community, people instantly write them off as trying to 'cancel' that person. In actuality, usually when people bring these things up its because they want an explanation as well as an apology so that they can then decide if they would like to further support that person. Of course there are people who have done so much wrong or done something so horrific that they either don't deserve/ shouldn't have a platform anymore or obviously don't care enough about the people they have hurt in order to educate themselves or change their behaviour. These are people who don't deserve to have a platform. But i think we can all think of CC who still have such big platforms - therefore it's evident that 'cancelling' doesn't work and holding CCs accountable is a good thing yet it solely depends on the person as to if they will address it or ignore it.
Then again I've seen many times things being brought up from a creators past of something obviously bad, however it's very evident that they support the community now and have done so for a while. Therefore, while they should address those things they said/did it's pretty obvious they have changed.
Its a whole big balance that i don't think will ever truly be found just due to the ever changing way of the internet. People are always going to find something to be mad at but we shouldn't immediately dismiss peoples concerns especially if they are valid and founded on evidence.