Cancel Culture
Have you ever heard of cancel culture? If you have or haven’t, let me tell you some facts and why I agree to this thing called “cancel culture.” The word cancel originally meant breaking up with someone. Why does it mean that? Well, because a man in the 1980’s made a song about a break up. Today it means culturally blocked from having a public career or platform.
Here is a short story from a high school graduate that went through this cultural block. According to the Pew Research Center, there was a girl who was 15 and one day all her friends stopped talking to her and blocked her. There was another girl who was part of it who called her “annoying, and etc.” she ended up developing trust issues and doubt about herself. This also caused her to be isolated from social media.
Not everyone might agree with my opinion in this cancel culture thing, but I think it can be okay in some cases, depending on what was done or said. In some cases people are canceled for a simple little misunderstanding. In times such as today people are canceled for saying the “n” slur and other words or phrases that’s not supposed to be said. In other cases people are also canceled for speaking to people or children that’s younger, such as James Charles, who got canceled for talking to a sixteen year old inappropriately. I found this out on Tik Tok and with a little bit of my own research.
There are many reasons why people are canceled or culturally blocked. There are many people who can get canceled such as organizations, celebrities, and brands. This is caused by the community who agrees that something is offensive. Being canceled can also cause lots of hate and bullying online. Some people still want to support that creator, person, brand, or organization. The supporters sometimes try to back them up but not all the information on why they were canceled would be leaked to the public. There is misleading information that comes out, and because we believe things on the internet, people take it and run with it instead of researching for themselves so that they can have a stronger claim and evidence.
So what do you think about cancel culture now? Do you think we should continue with canceling people or should we stop it? I think that we should cancel people because it’s like a lesson from the community that’s telling that person that their actions affect a community.
