Poll-Does anyone here believe in the concept of Cancel Culture?

[meadowlander]

11. According to Aristotle the purpose of civilisation is to encourage people to be more virtuous and to lead good lives.

So there is a role in society in collectively promoting the morality, integrity and dignity of its members. One of the main tools it has to do this is by excluding (or otherwise imposing a social penalty on) people who refuse to conform to whatever is considered acceptable conduct in that society. People who fall afoul of this might call it "cancel culture" but it's just a way of denigrating and dismissing what is actually an essential function of civilisation.

So yes, I believe the mechanism that "cancel culture" is describing does exist but not in the sense that MAGAs mean when they usually use it.

I do also think that people can go overboard and misuse it (for example, where they decide that they are enforcing the correct morality and norms on someone but those are not in fact widely socially accepted and/or rationally defensible). But I think this is pretty rare compared with people who just get butthurt over being asked to behave like a decent person and then whine about it being "cancel culture" as a softer easier alternative to admitting they were wrong or making any effort to improve their behaviour.