There is an emerging acceptance of public “calling out,” name-calling, and “canceling” people across social and public media channels --aka "Cancel Culture." The “Cancel Culture” is a crowd behavior where everyone jumps on the bandwagon and targets an individual. Sometimes a celebrity, sometimes a kid at school. The act of canceling (often with an accompanying hashtag) attempts to include others and implicitly creates and sanctifies groups of haters with an accompanying sense of belonging and the ability to rationalize that “it’s okay to target people because others are doing it.”
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Cancel Culture: Cyberbullying or Calling Out?
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There is an emerging acceptance of public “calling out,” name-calling, and “canceling” people across social and public media channels --aka "Cancel Culture." The “Cancel Culture” is a crowd behavior where everyone jumps on the bandwagon and targets an individual. Sometimes a celebrity, sometimes a kid at school. The act of canceling (often with an accompanying hashtag) attempts to include others and implicitly creates and sanctifies groups of haters with an accompanying sense of belonging and the ability to rationalize that “it’s okay to target people because others are doing it.”