Is Cancel Culture harmful, helpful or somewhere in the middle?

I actually see a lot of hypocrisy from people trying to cancel others.

One example would be a while ago I seen people going crazy because someone drew wolf characters with Native American tribal markings and jewellery and sort of like a spirit animal style,

yet one of the same people (who was also an artist) had a tribal pic of a wolf (also spirit animal style n such) they drew on their own profile, they also liked and favourited many other designs of a similar nature :/

Like bro, double standard much?

*Edit* also they don't stop there, they also tend to go after anyone who follows or commissions the artist that they're trying to cancel

Cancel culture is part of a larger tumor, (our education system), and it is a cancer in our nation.

People are afraid to disagree or even be seen to disagree with the opinions of the radical progressives, who are parrots.

Radical progressives simply have great big loud mouths, are willing to put their bodies on the streets, and are parroting flawed Marxist opinions drummed into them at their elite colleges and universities, and more lately in their grade schools. Marxism is intensely harmful. It is a failed vision, and it has been proven to fail and to cause countless deaths every single time it has been tried.

We only fear them because they are extremists. They will call and harass their opponents, threaten their families and their dogs, and they will dox those who believe they are safe. They will call your employer to demand that you be fired, and they will call corporations that carry your products if you are in business for yourself and demand that those products be cancelled.

They will form mobs...they will hurt people...and they demand that we defund the police, so they won't be caught or even prosecuted [i]when[/i] they hurt people.

They will do everything they can to try to destroy their opponents.

IMO we who disagree should return the favor.

It’s hard for me to ever see it as helpful, but the problem is that some things get labeled “cancel culture” that really aren’t. “Cancel culture” to me is a concerted effort to remove someone from the culture; it isn’t simply not finding them funny or disagreeing with them or otherwise criticizing them publicly. It involves an attempt to erase them, to end their career, to ensure that no one else can have access to them. People who “cancel” often seem to be busybodies whose own morals could undergo a cancelation if they were further scrutinized.

We think of it as a recent phenomenon, but I’ll remind everyone to consider the Dixie Chicks, who were canceled in 2003 for their public opposition to the Iraq War. Mild by today’s standards, but in the peak of post-9/11 jingoistic fervor, coming out against the Iraq War, especially as country singers, was anathema. The idea was that they had forfeited their place in the culture by expressing an unacceptable opinion. It’s a quintessential example of cancel culture to me.

Sometimes people deserve to be called out or criticized (and some deserve further prosecution like Harvey Weinstein) but cancel culture is problematic because it’s a mass movement that doesn’t allow room for nuance, it implies that people can never change or redeem themselves, and it proposes shutting someone down as a solution rather than a dialogue, something I will always consider harmful.

It's absolute garbage. This will be the new foundation of discrimination.

You could be cancelled for even discussing it. It's the antithesis of free speech.

Harmful

Mostly harmful because it's taken too far, but there are some instances when it's needed like Harvey Weinstein he needed to be cancelled etc

There are legitimate reasons to reject something or someone. Some people take it to an extreme.

Why should I give my money or support to a business or an individual, that stands against everything I believe in, and will use that money or support to further promote the things that I stand firmly against?

It's actually not a real thing. It's a media friendly term designed to create the power-illusion of enemies that get victim-oriented segments of any political persuasion of the population riled up.

I don't think there ever was a cancel 'culture' at all. It's just what people do ordinarily anyway, in day to day life. "I like you, you can stay. I don't like you, you can leave." That's it.

somewhere in the middle. regardless, the people gave you whatever platform you have, and they have the right to take it away. you’re not entitled to anyone’s support. whenever i hear that someone despises cancel culture, i just roll my eyes. majority of the time it’s kids and young adults between the ages of 12-25. if you’re a public figure, you should always be ready for the media to turn against you.

so in other words to answer your question, yes somewhere in the middle. but it’s really not supposed to be harmful or helpful. it’s just something that happens and has always happened. just in different ways.

It's an overstated phenomenon. Literally the last election was between two people who both have legitimate sexual misconduct allegations between them.

It means no freedom.

Harmful

Can be extremely harmful if taken to far. Like many things it’s not all bad but can by a few become an obsession and carried way to far. That’s my opinion doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong.

Interesting question
I struggle with the concept because to me, any time someone brings it up, they aren't "cancelling" anything...

Depends if you think Kaepernick was screwed over or if he deserved it. Same with any other victim.

i d say in the middle cuz sometimes it would help

Is “cancel culture” even [b]real[/b] ? Or is it a current invention of the right wing when people are held accountable for past actions ? How is it any different from when groups (again usually right-wingers) burned books, records and art of people who were out of favor ?

I think it is very harmful.

harmful because a person can change their views over time. someone shouldn't be judged by their past but by their deeds that they are doing now. a few mistakes in the past shouldn't ruin your career