Is cancel culture real or is it just a right-wing myth?

Personally, I think it does exist but it's niche and massively blown up by the right. Conservative YouTubers seem much more obsessed with university social science departments than anyone else on the planet. If you complain about being 'cancelled' it's the fastest way to get a book deal but then if you criticise the government of Israel you get called an anti-semite.

BTW, most of the 'free-speech absolutists' on this site will never read this post because they have blocked me. Oh well.

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

Outrage and boycots, peer pressure ... that's just part of societies. It's not persé a culture. Certain segments of the poppulation use it as a form of continuous activism. However, if these segments don't find popular support then nothing happens with it. Personal attacks however can be pretty damadging, no matter if someone gets canceled or not. Turning it into a general thing like "cancel culture", I don't see it. And blaming it on one side of the political spectrums, ist dumb and can only be explained as a certain segment of the poppulation using it as a tool to sway public opinion. It works a lot with those people that have a serious bad media diet.