Cancel culture - what is it?
Cancel culture is arguably a very recent toxic trend which has resulted in big names being "cancelled" or no longer supported due to their views or what they have said/done.
J.K. Rowling and Ellen DeGeneres are among the latest famous faces to find themselves trending and declared “over,” joining the hordes of celebrity “casualties” of cancel culture 2020.
Dr. Jill McCorkel, a professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova University, told The Post that the roots of cancel culture have been present throughout human history. Societies have punished people for behaving outside of perceived social norms for centuries, she said, and this is just another variation.“Cancel culture is an extension of or a contemporary evolution of a much bolder set of social processes that we can see in the form of banishment,” she said. “Its designed to reinforce the set of norms.”
Twitter, a huge social media base is a very big part of this since most "cancelling2 has occured on there. This is because of the digging up into peoples profiles which twitter fanbases are famously known for in the past. Examples of this are finding deragtory tweets from perhaps 7 years ago and bringing it up in hope of an apology and end to their career.
According to some people,The collective canceling of someone, even on the internet, creates a sense of solidarity reinforces the feeling of togetherness, that “we are a group…and we don’t tolerate that kind of behavior.”
“It reinforces, at a time of political division, a sense of shared solidarity, at least among the people who are doing the canceling,” she said. “It’s psychologically intoxicating to feel part of a group and to feel a part of something larger than yourself.”
Cancel culture, though, isn’t exclusive to celebrities. Companies and brands are under fire for racist imagery. Plenty of comapnies have come under fire and have had to apologise publicly!
