The Ethical Implications of Cancel Culture Introduction One of the most divisive phenomena in our modern culture is the occurrence of cancel culture. We consider cancel culture to be nitpicky attempts to demonize, shout down, and ostracize people who hold cultural or political beliefs that deviate sufficiently from mainstream ideology or what one group considers acceptable. Oftentimes, canceling a person or institution leads to the loss of jobs (whether their job is related to the topic or not), de-platforming, being ostracized from their milieu, media mischaracterization of the person, institution being blamed or canceled (often goes viral, particularly in those with fame), and similar ways to cause social death perpetrated by mobs of activists …show more content…
Cancel culture, as mediated by social media, is a way of socially pressuring or suppressing people out of positions of competence and discourse for largely trivial, often nuanced, cultural statements, political statements, observations, politics, and class. This occurs by using emotional reasoning, assumption and mischaracterization, overgeneralization, labeling, and many other ways that are antithetical to healthy communication. This type of communication promotes fragility and is quite detrimental to learning and understanding those who have differing perspectives. This is often done under the guise of protecting diversity, inclusivity, and equity but is rather far from empathy and acceptance, splitting people further and further from each other through identity differrences. We will attempt to provide a possible remedy for …show more content…
Carl Rogers popularized the concept, and it is a way of treating people with care and without your own personal opinions or biases influencing them. Accepting them as who they are, flaws included. It may be like a parents' love for their child or a partner letting their counterpart know they are accepted even through tough times. We believe that using methods like this as a mindset everyday could be another way to help create an accepting atmosphere and allow differing perspectives to be tolerated and voiced from each end without the demonization of the person, allowing rational debate on the ideas themselves. People are often more similar than they realize and by thinking of a person as someone who is similar to yourself first before one worries about how they are different can allow for a less vitriolic dialogue when the differences