Okay so here’s a long thread of questions/deliberations/ ponderances about “cancel culture.”

1. Is it “okay” to cancel someone? What if what they were cancelled for was, perhaps, a moral oversight that they didn’t understand until later in their lives?

I could very easily cancel a lot of my family because they say horribly racist things sometimes, and often, they do it without realizing it. But then I can also have a conversation with my dad and explain to him why we don’t say, “all lives matter.” He’ll get it & stop.

Because I truly believe that most people are good but often misguided. Should there be a period of time for someone to become “woke?”
2. Who is allowed to do the cancelling??? And are some instances of cancellation ever an over-reaction from a hyper vigilant group?

I mean, WOKE white people are very willing to cancel people/things/etc. We even do post-mortem cancellations.
The same goes with the far right, MFers try to cancel Starbucks over some red cups.

In relation to woke-ness, how often are people cancelled by non-affected groups for woke clout? Do we take the opinions of the affected groups into consideration when cancelling? Should there be a cancellation hierarchy?
3. What about cultural relativism?

Does the time period and culture that the actions occurred in matter in so far as who and what gets cancelled? If we’re doing large scale cancellations, then who is cancelled and what are the exceptions?
I mean, as Montaigne said, “Maybe we’re the cannibals.”

4. What happens after people are cancelled? Again, do they get to redeem themselves? I mean, pedophiles should stay home but what about someone who learns from their actions and behaviors and makes amends?

5. Is cancel culture just unevolved leftist shame culture? Because historically speaking, shame culture is ineffective and causes more issues than it solves.
5 1/2. If this is shame culture, how can we move to the more effective guilt culture???

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