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Cancel culture is political correctness, but applied to a person's entire history, always. Being angry at something someone just did is not cancel culture. Bu
by wccrawford 6y ago
Cancel culture is political correctness, but applied to a person's entire history, always.
Being angry at something someone just did is not cancel culture. But when you look at something someone did 20 years ago and they've already apologized and learned from it, but then still insist they not have a job because of it, that's cancel culture.
Cancel Culture is the opposite of "the right to be forgotten".
But you're correct that people have always taken offense at politics. I can't imagine that ever wasn't the case.
- everdrive 6y agoI generally agree with you, but I would say that something like "donglegate" also fits in the cancel culture spectrum. Would you agree? Should there be a different term for it? (maybe just twitter shaming, followed by the modern rule that if you get too much attention on twitter you will be fired?)
- wccrawford 6y agoI think there's definitely something there worth talking about, but trying to broaden a term to mean more will actually just make the term less useful, and it'll be harder to talk about both things instead. I'm not sure what I'd call "donglegate" other than "internet justice", but it wouldn't be "cancel culture".