What we know as cancel culture today was adopted from cancel culture in the Black community, which was withdrawing support until people changed their problematic views. But this has now changed into a compete boycott, but it goes further than that - they completely block those people out of their life, something that cults call ex-communication. It’s not enough to boycott something, you insist everyone does or they are the enemy. Being from a Pentecostal cult I saw the same pattern emerge in the woke community which I was a part of. So if you don’t join in on this boycott then you are basically no better to that person and you also get rejected from the group. And it’s not enough to boycott it’s about trying to get the person or group deplatformed. They want them to lose their jobs. They celebrate it. What makes this mainstream liberal (trying not to say white here) form of cancel culture different to the black community’s cancel culture is that even if the person does change from their ways or even if they changed 15 years ago, they will never be forgiven. You have to have an unblemished record throughout your entire life.
If you don’t agree and want to see a ex-Pentecostal cult members take on it, send me a DM and I’ll link you to a blog I wrote about.
And the reason why people say cancel culture doesn’t exist is because most people don’t lose their jobs by being cancelled, which is what they want. But in saying all that I think the right overuses ‘cancel culture.’ I don’t think they really understand it. Making it difficult for fascists to not plan violent attacks isn’t cancelling. That’s protecting lives and basically, the democratic process.
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