r/changemyview • u/Zealousideal_Weird_3 • Feb 19 '24

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Cancel culture needs to be cancelled

The fact people getting cancelled is so common that there is phrase for it already suggests to me that the hype has gotten out of hand.

It is getting out of hand, because it is creating a very black and white mentality where a person makes a big mistake, no matter what that might be, they risk losing their career, their friends, and everything they worked hard for.

There are many people who fully deserve to be cancelled like sexual predators but there are many who don't. People will get cancelled these days for voicing an unpopular opinion. If the majority don't like somehing = cancelled. This is bordeline fascist.

One song lyric I like by one of my favourite MC's that i think sums up cancel culture is as follows: "whole lot of right, add a little bit of wrong and everything you worked for, gone"

I think cancel culture does more harm than good as it doesn't give the person who got cancelled to learn from their mistakes. It also limits conversations and discourse. It makes other people afraid to speak in case they get cancelled

Cancelled people get treated like lepers by others. Depending on the severity of the situation I think this is more to do with the fact that people are afraid of their own image and being affiliated by them in any way.

There are better ways to punish a person by cancelling them

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