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What does 'cancel culture' mean to you?

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FTMF30 · 08/07/2020 17:22

This stems from a few posts. One about the disgust of Jodie Comer dating a Republican and comments stating that cancel culture is getting out of hand, dictating people's thoughts, opinions, preferences, etc.

There's also a post about Tescos giving funds to Mermaids and people boycotting them.

Personally, I thought cancel culture was more about the rise of people being quick to 'cancel' things via boycotting, not watching a certain TV show, unfollowing, etc.so (to me) is much more descriptive of the Tescos/Mermaids thing rather than Jodie Comer. With Jodie Comer, I just saw people commenting on their huge disapproval with no real intent on taking action (i.e 'cancelling') her.

When I look into definitions online, they are somewhat varied, so I'm just wondering, what does that term actually mean to people?

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JesusInTheCabbageVan · 10/07/2020 20:20

@chomalungma she's in "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. Great book and very interesting.

PeanutButterCheesecake · 11/07/2020 10:53

It means pretty much fuck all to me.

Sad little self important losers whining on Twitter? I think? I'm not on Twitter and hearing about this kind of thing reinforces why I'm not.

I wouldn't have heard of the whole cancelling thing if it wasn't for MN.

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