>The fact is that there are certain occasions where "canceling" seems fine, and others, where it does not. To me, this hints that the concept is a convenient t

>The fact is that there are certain occasions where "canceling" seems fine, and others, where it does not. To me, this hints that the concept is a convenient tool to own people over social media or use in political attacks for rallying a voter base. There isn’t anything new here except people being shitty to each other. Anything else from it is what you normally get with reputation damage (justified or not). Once we get rid of the annoying exercise of trying to define cancel culture, there’s some real action items we can talk about regarding reputation/livelihood damage for dumb things being said. Any reason to revisit that is because of technology’s reach now and how seemingly easily it can happen, not that cancel culture is a new thing.