Cancel culture

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Cancel culture is used to refer to a modern form of ostracism in which someone becomes the object of indignant protests and consequently ousted from social or professional circles - either on social media and / or in the real world. It also attempts to harm that person even economically, because judged morally or socially "deplorable".

Use of the word edit

Origins edit

The term has spread since 2017, when the so-called Black Twitter (an informal community on Twitter composed mostly of African American users) and initially defined the "stop giving support to a particular person" by means such as the "boycott" or the "failure to promote" its activities.

Between June and July 2020, Republican Senator Tom Cotton first, then US President Donald Trump, approached the culture of cancellation to the consequences of the Black Lives Matter movement on American historical consciousness.

During the George Floyd protests edit

After the death of George Floyd,, there have been (particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom) numerous episodes of iconoclasm aimed at removing statues or monuments considered symbols of a racist and slaver past. At the same time, around 150 intellectuals published an open letter called "A Letter On Justice And Open Debate" in Harper's Magazine on the 7th July 2020, to issue a warning on the dangers of "a new set of moral standards and political alignments that tend to weaken the open debate in favor of ideological conformity". The letter raised several criticisms from the left, including another open letter entitled "A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate".

Onthe 27th December 2020, an article in the Wall Street Journal reported some cases of great literary classics opposed by the #DisruptTexts movement: among them Homer's Odyssey and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. However, the article was criticized by the #DisruptTexts supporters themselves, who dismissed the allegations and pleaded against any kind of censorship.

On the 31st December 2020, Australian musician Nick Cave identified cancel culture as the "opposite of pity" and the degeneration of the politically correct, which has become "the most unhappy religion in the world".

Villany edit

Cancel culture brought to actual historical revisionism.
Cancel culture wanted to censor important literary works by removing them from the context in which they were set or written.
Cancel culture actively partecipated into censoring and ruining the life of comedians just for telling simple jokes or critic their ideologies.