Should people be held accountable for their actions? Of course. But weaponized shame does not tend to help people deal with the “bad” parts of themselves. Instead, it teaches them to deny those parts and push them further down, which leads to more harmful behavior down the line.

I don’t have a perfect alternative to cancel culture (if there was one, we’d have found it by now), but I do know that we could all use some practice being a little less extreme in our thinking.

What are your (kind & ideally non-extreme) thoughts about cancel culture?

Personal ps: I love the above concept so much that I have a tattoo that represents it as a reminder to myself. A reminder that I am neither all good nor all bad. And that neither is anyone else