What Is Cancel Culture?

[misscherry]

What is cancel culture? What actually happens to people who are cancelled? Is it permanent?

[Kardashev]

it's something to do with social media which apparently is important to many.

[bobbinwales]

It's a term like woke that will die out

[bobbinwales]

I thinks it's like snubbing or no platforming.

[chelle7272]

If someone is 'cancelled' they may find it hard to get more work or their existing /previous work will no longer be sold / promoted.
Whether or not it is permanent I think depends on the severity of the issue that got them cancelled in the first place.
I don't like the term or the way 'cancelling' is used to try to ruin someone just because a minority don't agree with their views.
Having said that, where it has applied to a person who has committed serious sexual assaults or abuse, for instance, I would agree with the principle, but not the term 'cancelling'.

[Spicerack]

You're on a roll today, Kardashev.
It's where people have scheduled appearances cancelled.
Film/TV roles cancelled. Books not published. Invites rescinded.
All in the vain hope of appeasing the mentally ill.

[Kardashev]

is it really, you mean things are actually cancelled? I thought it was the modern equivalent of ignoring someone.

[Spicerack]

Oh yes.

[bookbinder]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture

[mushroom25]

here's a recent example:-

a production of Stephen Sondheim's "into the Woods" due to have been shown at the Old Vic in 2022, has been cancelled. This is because its co-director, Terry Gilliam (of Monty Python fame) is a vocal supporter of comedian Dave Chappelle, whose most recent shows allegedly contained transphobic material.

[Khandro]

[QuizmasterG]

A method whereby socially and intellectually inept people try to shut up others who disagree with them.
Usually includes spitting out of dummies or kicking toys out of prams.

[Untitled]

it's a modern bogey man... it can refer to lots of different things but it normally means behaviour of people on twitter facebook... it's used to refer to anything from getting angry about something... to sending threats/abuse... to trying to attack someone's livelihood or safety...

talking about it is always politicised... the right like to pretend that it's a left-wing thing so they can say they are against it... because it's quite hard to say what the right is actually "for" these days so they need common enemies to stay united.

[naomi24]

After Cambridge students cancelled a speaker for impersonating Hitler, John Cleese who was due to speak there cancelled himself citing his crime of doing the same thing about 50 years ago. I read that Terry Gilliam’s treatment at the Old Vic influenced his decision and he is now making a documentary for channel 4 on cancel culture - in my opinion a modern evil.