What the Heck Happened to My Kid? One Mad Mom

[JimG]

“Today, anxiety is at an all-time high for the present generation of young adults. The cancel culture is simply awful. Say the wrong thing and your life is over, or so they are told and so they believe. Long gone are the days when bullying was bad. Now it’s the order of the day by their friends, teachers, bosses, etc. but they insist the truthful are the bullies.”

What the Heck Happened to My Kid??? – One Mad Mom

 

[The_Old_Maid]

Famous liberal blogger argues big difference between Cancel Culture and rightful rejection. (Note: Post is clean, but some naughty language in the unmoderated comment section.)

[Example: a musician] is not a victim of cancel culture. [Example: a musician] disgraced himself. He brought disgrace upon himself and upon his music by engaging in [example: sin that is also a crime]. As a consequence of his own actions, he is now “canceled.”

This is what “canceled” means. It means “disgraced.” Nothing more, nothing less. And disgrace is not a New Thing. It is as old as Cain. It is not a trend, or a hot topic requiring trendy hot takes. It is no more or less a matter of concern or worry or consternation than it has ever been.

It’s not hard to figure out where this new slang term for disgrace comes from. It arose on social media, where every post involves clicking one button next to another button reading “cancel.”

It’s a playful bit of word-play, one that perhaps seeks to downplay the moralizing or sermonizing that a term like “disgrace” seems to carry with it.

He goes into some detail that there are more scandals nowadays because more people are willing to identify scandalous conduct.

I agree with One Mad Mom that children are over-saturated with bad news and lack discernment to either digest it or avoid it.

 

[Annie]

This is what “canceled” means. It means “disgraced.” Nothing more, nothing less

Perhaps so, but what disgraces a person includes not only committing scurrilous acts such as the writer describes, but also such acts as disagreeing with, say, the idea of allowing young men who identify themselves as young women to compete in women’s sports (JK Rowling), or contributing to the “wrong” side of a proposition (Brendan Eich).