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Agreed. I always assumed the term “cancel culture” was a partisan broad brush created and wielded by right-leaning media to tar young people with honestly-held
by darkteflon 6y ago
Agreed. I always assumed the term “cancel culture” was a partisan broad brush created and wielded by right-leaning media to tar young people with honestly-held but perhaps loudly and annoyingly-expressed convictions about the appalling state of the world and our toxic public discourse in the age of Trump and Twitter.
Seeing Rupert Murdoch come out against it all pretty much settled the question for me: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/fox-mogul-rupert-murdoch-slams-cancel-culture-in-rare-speech https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/fox-mogul....
I think if someone starts talking to you about “cancel culture” like you’re supposed to know what that means, it’s a fair bet that they’re leading into a partisan political position.
EDIT: Haha, I’m being cancelled
- krapp 6y agoAt this point the term has been abused by the right-wing in its persecution complex narrative so thoroughly that literally any disagreement, criticism or social activism which can be interpreted as "progressive" is interpreted as "cancel culture." It's just a catch-all pejorative for any opinion publicly expressed by any "leftist," anywhere.