On Cancel Culture

I feel like a post on this has been a long time coming. You have probably heard by now about the idea of people or something else like it being cancelled. They are shunned from the general public and have to deal with a lot of controversy regarding who they are.

 

You see, cancel culture effectively began as a backlash to the Me Too Movement. People weren’t just going to take their controversies lying down. The people accused of horrendous things now had a weapon they could use. They could just whine about being cancelled.

 

The thing is, though, are we just supposed to ignore the controversial things that they are accused of? Are they always just the victim of a witch hunt with the women being liars and the accused the real victims? I don’t buy that for a second. I’m not going to go so far as to say that is the case all of the time. Sometimes, a person isn’t actually guilty of the allegations against them. Sometimes the accuser is lying and causing issues for whatever reason. But I don’t buy that this is the case a majority of the time.

 

What I will say is that it needs to be taken on a case by case basis. One can’t be guilty all of the time. One can’t be the victim of a witch hunt all of the time. Some of them might even have truths to both of the sides in the end. Some allegations are more serious than others, obviously. Others don’t like the fact that a certain beloved person might wind up getting cancelled in the end. And when it comes to the world of politics, it is never one side is always innocent and the other is always guilty.

 

Those are my brief thoughts as to the whole subject as a whole. I already covered some of this in a way when I first talked about the Me Too Movement in this blog when it first appeared and before there was a term for the predictable backlash that would come from it. Sometimes you just have to accept that a well loved person isn’t as great as you once thought that they were.