The phrase itself is suggestive: we can cancel Netflix subscriptions or smartphone services, so why not cancel human beings through reputation destruction and social exile? "Cancelling" has become an entertaining hobby-an indulgent, dopamine-feeding activity practiced on social media until its cruel practitioners, ultimately bored, follow the algorithms elsewhere.
As we saw with the mob that surrounded Nicholas Christakis at Yale, cancel culture is not a solitary activity.
Cancel culture allows people to identify who is loyal to their movement.
Targets of cancel culture usually commit acts suddenly deemed out of fashion.
Those who ask for evidence of the alleged wrongdoing, question the severity of the transgression, or debate the propriety of cancel culture risk revealing themselves as unfaithful to the cause.
The social rewards are immediate and gratifying and the dangers too distant and abstract.
The desire for instant social rewards over distant and uncertain disaster is not a quirk of any particular group-it's common to all of us.
https://www.city-journal.org/cancel-culture
As we saw with the mob that surrounded Nicholas Christakis at Yale, cancel culture is not a solitary activity.
Cancel culture allows people to identify who is loyal to their movement.
Targets of cancel culture usually commit acts suddenly deemed out of fashion.
Those who ask for evidence of the alleged wrongdoing, question the severity of the transgression, or debate the propriety of cancel culture risk revealing themselves as unfaithful to the cause.
The social rewards are immediate and gratifying and the dangers too distant and abstract.
The desire for instant social rewards over distant and uncertain disaster is not a quirk of any particular group-it's common to all of us.
https://www.city-journal.org/cancel-culture
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