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

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SW-User
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
bowman81 · M
@SW-User He didn't need to be cancelled, he just needed to be prosecuted and convicted. The "cancel culture" would abolish any semblance of due process lets just try people by innuendo and rumor.
SW-User
@SW-User exactly, but (for example) 'cancelling' some woman for stupid remarks she made on twitter when she was a teenager and now nobody wants to work with her, like as if she's a horror, that is going way to far
SW-User
@bowman81 I agree with you He needed to be prosecuted and convicted and he was. All I'm saying is without people calling it out and trying to cancel someone who is doing wrong He may never have gotten prosecuted. Sometimes people get called out for the right reasons, it's rare nowadays It's just people going nuts on everyone they don't agree with.
SW-User
@SW-User I agree people take it too far which is why I said mostly harmful. I don't think that a few bad choices in your youth means that your whole future should be destroyed. With that being said somethings are worth destroying someone's future such as child abuse etc those people should never be celebrated