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cancel culture doesn't originate in China. It's an evolution of the western idea of equality and individualism taken to an extreme
by cnlevy 5y ago
cancel culture doesn't originate in China. It's an evolution of the western idea of equality and individualism taken to an extreme
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoCancel culture isn't that either. Cancel culture is a rebranding of 'shunning', which I bet predates humans as we know them. I bet our social monkey predecessors had such tactics figured out. Read this and tell me it isn't 'cancel culture': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Overview Bonus: 'shadow-banning' is stealth shunning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Stealth_shunning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Stealth_shunning
- azangru 5y agoIt's probably a combination of the two. Letting the monkey instincts run wild while covering them with modern fanciful words :-)
- hnfong 5y agoHow about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoAnother word for basically the same thing, yes. Excommunication is top-down directed shunning.
- threatofrain 5y agoCancelling finds its roots in the freedom of association.
- pmontra 5y agoAncient Athens had ostracism [1]. It was against a single person and not against ideas but given that the numbers where smaller and heads carry ideas, it was more or less the same thing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
- quocanh 5y agoChina is famously very accepting of all ideas and would never ban or ostracize members of its own society for perspectives that disagree with the majority's belief. Yep. Definitely a western thing.