Modern form of ostracism
Cancel culture
is a phrase contemporary to the late 2010s and early 2020s used to refer to a cultural phenomenon in which an individual deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner is
ostracized
,
boycotted
,
shunned
,
fired
or
assaulted
, often aided by social media.
[1]
[2]
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[4]
This shunning may extend to social or professional circles?whether on
social media
or in person?with most high-profile incidents involving
celebrities
.
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Those subject to this ostracism are said to have been "canceled".
[6]
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[a]
The term "cancel culture" came into circulation in the late 2010s and early 2020s and has mostly negative connotations.
[7]
The term "
call-out culture
" is used by some as more positive verbiage for the same concept.
Some critics argue that cancel culture has a
chilling effect
on public discourse, is unproductive, does not bring real social change, causes intolerance, and amounts to
cyberbullying
.
[8]
[9]
Others argue that the term is used to attack efforts to promote
accountability
, to give disenfranchised people a voice, and attacks language that is itself
free speech
. Still others question whether cancel culture is an actual phenomenon,
[10]
arguing that similar forms of boycotting have existed long before the origin of the term "cancel culture."
[9]
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While the careers of some public figures have been impacted by boycotts that have been widely described as "cancellation", others who have complained of cancellation have successfully continued their careers.
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Origins
The 1981
Chic
album
Take It Off
includes the song "Your Love Is Cancelled," which compares a breakup to the
cancellation
of TV shows. The song was written by
Nile Rodgers
following a bad date Rodgers had with a woman who expected him to misuse his celebrity status on her behalf. "Your Love Is Cancelled" inspired screenwriter
Barry Michael Cooper
to include a reference to a woman being canceled in the 1991 film
New Jack City
.
[15]
This usage introduced the term to
African-American Vernacular English
, where it eventually became more common.
[16]
By around 2015, the concept of canceling had become widespread on
Black Twitter
to refer to a personal decision, sometimes seriously and sometimes in jest, to stop supporting a person or work.
[15]
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According to Jonah Engel Bromwich of
The New York Times
, this usage of the word "cancellation" indicates the "total disinvestment in something (anything)".
[3]
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After numerous cases of
online shaming
gained wide notoriety, the term "cancellation" was increasingly used to describe a widespread, outraged, online response to a single provocative statement, against a single target.
[20]
Over time, as isolated instances of cancellation became more frequent and the
mob mentality
more apparent, commentators began seeing a "culture" of outrage and cancellation.
[21]
Conversations about "cancel culture" started to increase in late 2019.
[22]
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In the 2020s, the phrase became a shorthand employed by
conservatives in the United States
to refer to what they perceived to be disproportionate reactions to
politically incorrect
speech.
[24]
In 2020, Ligaya Mishan wrote in
The New York Times
, "The term is shambolically applied to incidents both online and off that range from vigilante justice to hostile debate to stalking, intimidation and harassment. ... Those who embrace the idea (if not the precise language) of canceling seek more than pat apologies and retractions, although it's not always clear whether the goal is to right a specific wrong or redress a larger imbalance of power."
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"Call-out culture" has been in use as part of the
#MeToo
movement.
[27]
The #MeToo movement encouraged women (and men) to call out their abusers on a forum where the accusations would be heard, especially against very powerful individuals.
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Additionally, the
Black Lives Matter Movement
, which seeks to highlight inequalities, racism, and discrimination experienced by the black community, repeatedly called out police officers who were killing black men and women across the nation.
[28]
Academic and legal perspectives
An article written by
Pippa Norris
, a professor at Harvard University, states that the controversies surrounding cancel culture are between those who argue it gives a voice to those in marginalized communities and those who argue that cancel culture is dangerous because it prevents free speech and/or the opportunity for open debate. Norris emphasizes the role of social media in contributing to the rise of cancel culture.
[29]
Additionally, online communications studies have demonstrated the intensification of cultural wars through activists that are connected through digital and social networking sites.
[30]
Norris also mentions that the
spiral of silence theory
may contribute to why people are hesitant to voice their minority views on social media sites and fear that their views and opinions, specifically political opinions, will be chastised because their views violate the majority group's norms and understanding.
[31]
In the book
The Coddling of the American Mind
(2018), social psychologist
Jonathan Haidt
and
Greg Lukianoff
, president of the
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
, argue that call-out culture arises on college campuses from what they term "safetyism"? a moral culture in which people are unwilling to make tradeoffs demanded by the practical or moral concerns of others.
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Keith Hampton
, professor of media studies at
Michigan State University
, contends that the practice contributes to
political polarization in the United States
but does not lead to changes in opinion.
[35]
Cancel culture has been described by media studies scholar Eve Ng as "a collective of typically marginalized voices 'calling out' and emphatically expressing their censure of a powerful figure."
[36]
Cultural studies scholar
Frances E. Lee
states that call-out culture leads to self-policing of "wrong, oppressive, or inappropriate" opinions.
[37]
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According to
Lisa Nakamura
,
University of Michigan
professor of
media studies
, canceling someone is a form of "cultural boycott" and cancel culture is the "ultimate expression of agency," which is "born of a desire for control [as] people have limited power over what is presented to them on social media" and a need for "accountability which is not centralized".
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Some academics have proposed alternatives and improvements to cancel culture. Critical
multiculturalism
professor Anita Bright proposed "calling in" rather than "calling out" in order to bring forward the former's idea of
accountability
but in a more "humane, humble, and bridge-building" light.
[41]
Clinical counsellor Anna Richards, who specializes in conflict mediation, says that "learning to analyze our own motivations when offering criticism" helps call-out culture work productively.
[42]
Professor
Joshua Knobe
, of the Philosophy Department at
Yale
, contends that public denunciation is not effective, and that society is too quick to pass judgement against those they view as public offenders or
personae non gratae
. Knobe says that these actions have the opposite effect on individuals, and that it is best to bring attention to the positive actions in which most of society participates.
[43]
Former US Secretary of Labor
Eugene Scalia
wrote in a 2021
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
article that cancel culture is a form of free speech, and is therefore protected under the
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
. According to Scalia, cancel culture can interfere with the
right to counsel
, as some lawyers would not be willing to risk their personal and professional reputation on controversial topics.
[44]
Reactions
The expression "cancel culture" has mostly negative connotations and is used in debates on free speech and censorship.
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Criticism of "cancel culture"
In July 2020, former U.S. President
Barack Obama
criticized cancel culture and "
woke
" mentality on
social media
, saying: "People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids and, you know, share certain things with you."
[46]
Former U.S. President
Donald Trump
criticized cancel culture in a speech in July 2020, comparing it to
totalitarianism
and saying that it is a political weapon used to punish and shame dissenters by driving them from their jobs and demanding submission. He was subsequently criticized as being hypocritical for having attempted to cancel a number of people and companies in the past himself.
[47]
Trump made similar claims during the
2020 Republican National Convention
when he stated that the goal of cancel culture is to make decent Americans live in fear of being fired, expelled, shamed, humiliated, and driven from society.
[31]
Pope Francis
said that cancel culture is "a form of ideological colonization, one that leaves no room for freedom of expression", saying that it "ends up cancelling all sense of identity".
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors
, the co-founder of the
Black Lives Matter
movement, states that social activism does not just involve going online or going to a protest to call someone out, but is work entailing strategy sessions, meetings, and getting petitions signed.
[9]
UK Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak
included cancel culture, where one group "are trying to impose their views on the rest of us", among the contemporary dangers of the modern world.
[51]
Philosopher
Slavoj ?i?ek
states, that "Cancel culture, with its implicit paranoia, is a desperate and obviously self-defeating attempt to compensate for the very real violence and intolerance that sexual minorities have long suffered. But it is a retreat into a cultural fortress, a pseudo-"safe space" whose discursive fanaticism merely strengthens the majority's resistance to it.".
[52]
Lisa Nakamura
, a professor at the
University of Michigan
, describes cancel culture as "a cultural boycott" and says it provides a culture of accountability.
[3]
Meredith Clark
, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, states that cancel culture gives power to disenfranchised voices.
[9]
Osita Nwanevu, a staff writer for
The New Republic
, states that people are threatened by cancel culture because it is a new group of young progressives, minorities, and women who have "obtained a seat at the table" and are debating matters of justice and etiquette.
[53]
Open letter
Dalvin Brown, writing in
USA Today
, has described an open letter signed by 153 public figures and published in
Harper's Magazine
as marking a "high point" in the debate on the topic.
[24]
The letter set out arguments against "an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty."
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A response letter organized by lecturer Arionne Nettles, "A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate," was signed by over 160 people in academia and media. It criticized the
Harper's
letter as a plea to end cancel culture by successful professionals with large platforms who wanted to exclude others who have been "canceled for generations.” The writers ultimately stated that the
Harper's
letter was intended to further silence already marginalized people. They wrote: "It reads as a caustic reaction to a diversifying industry ? one that's starting to challenge diversifying norms that have protected bigotry."
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Criticism of "cancel culture" as a concept
A number of professors, politicians, journalists,
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and activists have questioned the validity of cancel culture as an actual phenomenon.
[14]
Connor Garel, writing for
Vice
, states that cancel culture "rarely has any tangible or meaningful effect on the lives and comfortability of the cancelled."
[13]
Danielle Kurtzleben, a political reporter for
NPR
, wrote in 2021 that overuse of the phrase "cancel culture" in American politics, particularly by Republicans, has made it "arguably background noise". Per Kurtzleben and others, the term has undergone
semantic bleaching
to lose its original meaning.
[62]
Historian
C. J. Coventry
argues that the term is incorrectly applied, and that the label has been used to avoid accountability for historical instances of injustice.
[63]
[b]
Another historian,
David Olusoga
, made a similar argument, and argued that the phenomenon of cancellation is not limited to the left.
[12]
[c]
Indigenous governance professor and activist
Pamela Palmater
writes in
Maclean's
magazine that "cancel culture is the dog whistle term used by those in power who don’t want to be held accountable for their words and actions?often related to racism, misogyny, homophobia or the abuse and exploitation of others".
[11]
Sarah Manavis wrote for the
New Statesman
magazine that while free speech advocates are more likely to make accusations of
cancel culture
, criticism is part of free speech and rarely results in consequences for those in power who are criticized. She argues that social media is an extension and reincarnation of a longer tradition of expression in a liberal society, "a new space for historical power structures to be solidified" and that online criticism by people who do not hold actual power in society tends to not affect existing power structures. She adds that most prominent people who criticized public opinion as canceling still have highly profitable businesses.
[10]
Consequence culture
Some media commentators including
LeVar Burton
and
Sunny Hostin
have stated that "cancel culture" should be renamed "consequence culture."
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The terms have different connotations: "cancel culture" focusing on the effect whereby discussion is limited by a desire to maintain one certain viewpoint, whereas "consequence culture" focuses on the idea that those who write or publish opinions or make statements should bear some responsibility for the effects of these on people.
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American public opinion
A survey conducted in September 2020 on 10,000 Americans by
Pew Research Center
asked a series of different questions in regard to cancel culture, specifically on who has heard of the term cancel culture and how Americans define cancel culture.
[66]
At that time, 44% of Americans said that they have at least heard a fair amount about the new phrase, while 22% have heard a great deal and 32% said they have heard nothing at all.
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43% Americans aged 18?29 have heard a great deal about cancel culture, compared to only 12% of Americans over the age of 65 who say they have heard a great deal.
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Additionally, within that same study, the 44% of Americans who had heard a great deal about cancel culture, were then asked how they defined cancel culture. 49% of those Americans state that it describes actions people take to hold others accountable, 14% describe cancel culture as censorship of speech or history, and 12% define it as mean-spirited actions taken to cause others harm.
[66]
It was found that men were more likely to have heard or know of cancel culture, and that those who identify with the
Democratic Party
(46%) are no more likely to know the term than those in the
Republican Party
(44%).
[66]
A poll of American registered voters conducted by
Morning Consult
in July 2020 showed that cancel culture, defined as "the practice of withdrawing support for (or canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive", was common: 40% of respondents said they had withdrawn support from public figures and companies, including on social media, because they had done or said something considered objectionable or offensive, with 8% having engaged in this often. Behavior differed according to age, with a majority (55%) of voters 18 to 34 years old saying they have taken part in cancel culture, while only about a third (32%) of voters over 65 said they had joined a social media pile-on.
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Attitude towards the practice was mixed, with 44% of respondents saying they disapproved of cancel culture, 32% who approved, and 24% who did not know or had no opinion. Furthermore, 46% believed cancel culture had gone too far, with only 10% thinking it had not gone far enough. Additionally, 53% believed that people should expect social consequences for expressing unpopular opinions in public, such as those that may be construed as deeply offensive to other people.
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A March 2021 poll by the
Harvard
Center for American Political Studies and
the Harris Poll
found that 64% of respondents viewed "a growing cancel culture" as a threat to their freedom, while the other 36% did not. 36% of respondents said that cancel culture is a big problem, 32% called it a moderate problem, 20% called it a small problem, and 13% said it is not a problem. 54% said they were concerned that if they expressed their opinions online, they would be banned or fired, while the other 46% said they were not concerned.
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A November 2021 Hill/HarrisX poll found that 71% of registered voters strongly or somewhat felt that cancel culture went too far, with similar numbers of Republicans (76%), Democrats (70%), and independents (68%) saying so.
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The same poll found that 69% of registered voters felt that cancel culture unfairly punishes people for their past actions or statements, compared to 31% who said it did not. Republicans were more likely to agree with the statement (79%), compared to Democrats (65%) and independents (64%).
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In a January 2022 Knight-IPSOS Study involving 4,000 participants, most Americans surveyed said that some speech should be prohibited. Specifically, they stated that "a variety of private and public institutions should prohibit racist speech." However, most also noted that these same institutions should not ban political views that are offensive.
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A March 2022
New York Times
/
Siena College
survey of 1,000 Americans found that 84 percent of adults said it is a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem that some Americans do not speak freely in everyday situations because of fear of retaliation or harsh criticism. The survey also found that 46 percent of respondents said they felt less free to talk about politics compared to a decade ago, and that only 34 percent of Americans said they believed that all Americans enjoyed freedom of speech completely.
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In popular media
See also
Notes
- ^
Merriam-Webster
notes that to "cancel", in this context, means "to stop giving support to that person".
[6]
Dictionary.com
, in its pop-culture dictionary, defines cancel culture as "withdrawing support for (
canceling
) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive."
[7]
- ^
"While I agree that the line between debate and suppression is one that occasionally gets crossed by the so-called left wing, it is almost invariably true that the real cancel culture is perpetrated by those who have embraced the term. If you look through Australian history, as well as European and American history, you will find countless examples of people speaking out against injustice and being persecuted in return. I can think of a number of people in our own time who are being persecuted by supposedly democratic governments for revealing uncomfortable information."
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- ^
"Unlike some on the left, I have never doubted that 'cancel culture' exists
... The great myth about cancel culture, however, is that it exists only on the left. For the past 40 years, rightwing newspapers have ceaselessly fought to delegitimize and ultimately cancel our national broadcaster [the BBC], motivated by financial as well as political ambitions."
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