Is "call-out culture" a problem?
You can Google call-out culture if you don't know about the term. It's pretty self-explanatory though.
It seems we are less likely to look for a solution to a problem than we are to publicly call out the ones causing the problem, or the ones we disagree with.
There's nothing wrong with bringing things to light, which is how this started. It has gotten out of hand though. For most, it seems to be about attention now. They don't truly care about the issue.
Example: Someone gets frustrated, looks up and says, "Kill me now."
Then someone yells out something like, "Are you making light of suicide?!" (True story btw)
When really, you could just go up to that person and say, just to them, something like "I get that you probably didn't mean it this way, but what you said was pretty insensitive"
That doesn't get you any credit from your peers though. No attention. It just makes you a decent person. Where's the fun in that?
It seems we are less likely to look for a solution to a problem than we are to publicly call out the ones causing the problem, or the ones we disagree with.
There's nothing wrong with bringing things to light, which is how this started. It has gotten out of hand though. For most, it seems to be about attention now. They don't truly care about the issue.
Example: Someone gets frustrated, looks up and says, "Kill me now."
Then someone yells out something like, "Are you making light of suicide?!" (True story btw)
When really, you could just go up to that person and say, just to them, something like "I get that you probably didn't mean it this way, but what you said was pretty insensitive"
That doesn't get you any credit from your peers though. No attention. It just makes you a decent person. Where's the fun in that?
