CANCEL CULTURE: JUSTICE OR JUST ANOTHER MOB?__WEEK 236(ED2)
If someone does something terrible, is it okay for the online community to canceel them? That is the question Hive Learners asked for this week, and it is one I have thought about a lott.....stay with me.
At first, I used to support cancel culture completelyy.....(yeah) When I saw someone do something wroong online, especially somethingg terrible, I felt satissfied when I saw everyone dragging them, unfollowing them, and calling for them to loose their job or platformm.... It felt like justice to mee. It felt like the internet was finally holding people accountable when the authoritiees were too sloow or too corrupt to act
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But the more I watch how it happenss, the more uncommfortable I get.
Cancel culture is a form of taking matters into our own hands. And I understand why people do it. Sometimes the legal system fails. Sometimes a powerful person does something bad and everyone knows, but no police will arrest them, no court will try them. So people online feel that cancelling is the only power they have. They can remove the person's audience, their money, their reputation.
The problem is, who decides how far the cancellation should go? And when should it stop?
Let's be honest, online cancellation has no rules..., no judge.., no limit... One person makes a mistake, or even commits a crimme, and within minutess, thousands of people are posting, insulting, digging up old photos, contacting their family, their workplace, their school........ It is not just about accountability anymoreer
...(nahhh). It becomes entertainmentt.
And the biggest question for me is this: even though the person is guilty, is it okay to cancel them while they are still paying the legal price for their act?
If someone steals, assaults someone, or scams people, and the law arrests them, they go to court, they go to jail or they pay a fine - that is the legal price. That is the system we all agreed to live under. But online, even after that person has served their punishment, the internet never forgets. They come out of jail and they are still cancelled. No job will hire them. No platform will accept them. Are we then punishing them twice for the same offence?
Shouldn't such things be handled by appropriate authority?
I think yes, ideally. The law, even with its flaws, at least tries to be fair. It listens to both sides. It measures the punishment to fit the crime. Online mob justice does not. One day you are cancelled for something terrible, the next day you are cancelled for an old tweet you made at 15.....like TF!!
This does not mean we should stay silent. If someone does somethingg terrrible, we should
speak upp. We shoulld call it out..., we should support the victim.., we should report to the right authoritiees. Speakingg up is different from cancelling.
For me, I draw the line here: call out the act, but leave the final judgment to the law. If the law fails, keep pressuringg the law to work, don't replace it with a mob. Because today we are cancellingg someone else, tommorrow the mob might come for us, and there will be no authorityy left to save us.
So, is cancel culture okayy?...... It feels good in the momment..., but it is a dangerous shortcuut. Justice should be done by those who are trained to do it.....(simple!!), not by trending hashtags.👎👎👎👎👎
What do you think aboout this???..... let's talk in the comment 👇👇👇👇👇
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