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{{short description|Modern form of ostracism}}

'''Cancel culture''' is a phrase contemporary to the late 2010s and early 2020s used to refer to a culture  in which those who are deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner are [[Social:Ostracism|ostracized]], [[Social:Boycott|boycotted]] or shunned.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Munro |first=Ealasaid |date=August 23, 2013 |title=Feminism: A Fourth Wave? |url=https://www.psa.ac.uk/psa/news/feminism-fourth-wave |url-status=live |journal=Political Insight |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=22–25 |doi=10.1111/2041-9066.12021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210124315/https://www.psa.ac.uk/psa/news/feminism-fourth-wave |archive-date=December 10, 2019 |access-date=April 29, 2020 |s2cid=142990260}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sills |first1=Sophie |last2=Pickens |first2=Chelsea |last3=Beach |first3=Karishma |last4=Jones |first4=Lloyd |last5=Calder-Dawe |first5=Octavia |last6=Benton-Greig |first6=Paulette |last7=Gavey |first7=Nicola |date=March 23, 2016 |title=Rape culture and social media: young critics and a feminist counterpublic |journal=Feminist Media Studies |volume=16 |issue=6 |pages=935–951 |doi=10.1080/14680777.2015.1137962 |s2cid=147023782}}</ref><ref name="Bromwich 2018" /><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Yar |first1=Sanam |last2=Bromwich |first2=Jonah Engel |date=October 31, 2019 |title=Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/style/cancel-culture.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601235105/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/style/cancel-culture.html |archive-date=June 1, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The term "cancel culture" is predominantly used when these responses are to right-wing actions or speech, but is rare when the responses are to left-wing actions or speech.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014744289/cancel-culture-debate-has-early-90s-roots-political-correctness |access-date=June 20, 2023 |title=How Cancel Culture Became Politicized — Just Like Political Correctness |last=Shapiro |first=Ari |last2=Marquez Janse |first2=Alejandra |last3=Venkat |first3=Mia |last4=Caldwell |first4=Noah |last5=Jarenwattananon |first5=Patrick |date=July 26, 2021 |website=www.npr.org |publisher=National Public Radio}}</ref> This shunning may extend to social or professional circles—whether on [[Social:Social media|social media]] or in person—with most high-profile incidents involving celebrities.<ref>{{cite news |last=McDermott |first=John |date=November 2, 2019 |title=Those People We Tried to Cancel? They're All Hanging Out Together |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/style/what-is-cancel-culture.html |access-date=August 3, 2020}}</ref> Those subject to this ostracism are said to have been "canceled".<ref name="Merriam-Webster 2019">{{cite web |date=July 12, 2019|title=What It Means to Get 'Canceled' |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/cancel-culture-words-were-watching |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618080415/https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/cancel-culture-words-were-watching |archive-date=June 18, 2020 |access-date=July 4, 2020 |website=Merriam-Webster}}</ref><ref name="Dictionary.com 2020">{{cite web |date=July 31, 2020|title=What Does Cancel Culture Mean? |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/cancel-culture/ |access-date=August 19, 2020 |website=Dictionary.com}}</ref>{{efn|Merriam-Webster notes that to "cancel", in this context, means "to stop giving support to that person".<ref name="Merriam-Webster 2019"/> 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."<ref name="Dictionary.com 2020"/>}} 

The expression "cancel culture" came in circulation in the late 2010s and early 2020s and has mostly negative connotations,<ref name="Dictionary.com 2020" /> often used polemically by self-described advocates for free speech and against [[Social:Censorship|censorship]].<ref name="Brown 2020" /> The term "'''call-out culture'''" is generally understood to be a more positive framing of 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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=McWhorter|first1=John|date=September 2020|title=Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom|website=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/academics-are-really-really-worried-about-their-freedom/615724/|access-date=July 30, 2021}}</ref><ref name="ProCon 2020">{{Cite web |date=September 27, 2020|title=Cancel Culture Top 3 Pros and Cons |url=https://www.procon.org/headlines/is-cancel-culture-or-callout-culture-good-for-society/ |access-date=December 12, 2022 |website=[[ProCon.org]]}}</ref> Others argue that calls for "cancellation" are themselves a form of free speech, and that they promote [[Social:Accountability|accountability]], and give disenfranchised people a voice. Still others question whether cancel culture is an actual phenomenon,<ref name="Manavis 2020" /> arguing that similar forms of boycotting have long existed.<ref name="ProCon 2020" /><ref name="Maclean's 2021"/><ref name="Olusoga 2021" /> While the careers of some public figures have been impacted by boycotts that have been widely described as "cancellation", others have complained of cancellation while continuing their careers as before.<ref name="Garel 2018"/><ref name="Hagi 2019" />

==Origins==
"Call-out culture" has been in use as part of the #MeToo movement.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mendes|first1=Kaitlynn|last2=Ringrose|first2=Jessica |last3=Keller|first3=Jessalynn |date=May 1, 2018|title=#MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506818765318|journal=European Journal of Women's Studies|language=en|volume=25|issue=2|pages=236–246|doi=10.1177/1350506818765318|issn=1350-5068|hdl=2381/41541|s2cid=149646504|hdl-access=free}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ProCon 2020"/> Additionally, the Black Lives Matter Movement, which seeks to highlight inequalities, racism and discrimination in the black community, repeatedly called out black men being killed by police.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Buchanan |first1=Larry |last2=Bui |first2=Quoctrung |last3=Patel |first3=Jugal K. |date=2020-07-03 |title=Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html |access-date=2022-03-04 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In March 2014, activist Suey Park called out "a blatantly racist tweet about Asians" from the official Twitter account of ''The Colbert Report'' using the hashtag #cancelColbert, which generated widespread outrage against Stephen Colbert and an even greater amount of backlash against Park, even though the ''Colbert Report'' tweet was a satirical tweet.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Park |first1=Suey & Eunsong Kim |title=We Want To #CancelColbert |url=https://time.com/42174/we-want-to-cancelcolbert/ |access-date=July 29, 2021 |magazine={{wipe|Time (magazine)}} |date=March 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Here's What Happened to the Woman Who Started #CancelColbert |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/02/cancelcolbert-what-happened/ |magazine=Wired |access-date=July 29, 2021 |date=February 22, 2016}}</ref> By around 2015, the concept of canceling had become widespread on [[Social:Black Twitter|Black Twitter]] to refer to a personal decision, sometimes seriously and sometimes in jest, to stop supporting a person or work.<ref name=mcgrady>{{cite news |last1=McGrady |first1=Clyde |title=The strange journey of 'cancel,' from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/cancel-culture-background-black-culture-white-grievance/2021/04/01/2e42e4fe-8b24-11eb-aff6-4f720ca2d479_story.html |access-date=April 10, 2021 |newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|date=April 2, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Mishan |first=Ligaya |title=The Long and Tortured History of Cancel Culture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/t-magazine/cancel-culture-history.html |access-date=April 10, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=December 3, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Romano |first1=Aja |title=Why we can't stop fighting about cancel culture |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/30/20879720/what-is-cancel-culture-explained-history-debate |access-date=April 10, 2021 |work=Vox |date=August 25, 2020}}</ref> According to Jonah Engel Bromwich of ''{{wipe|The New York Times}}'', this usage of the word "cancellation" indicates the "total disinvestment in something (anything)".<ref name="Bromwich 2018">{{Cite news |last=Bromwich |first=Jonah Engel |date=June 28, 2018 |title=Everyone Is Canceled |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/style/is-it-canceled.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813135512/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/style/is-it-canceled.html |archive-date=August 13, 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=D. Clark |first=Meredith |title=Drag Them: A brief etymology of so-called "cancel culture" |journal=Communication and the Public |date=2020 |volume=5 |issue=3–4 |pages=88–92 |doi=10.1177/2057047320961562|doi-access=free }}</ref> After numerous cases of [[Online shaming|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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McDermott |first1=John |title=Those People We Tried to Cancel? They're All Hanging Out Together |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/style/what-is-cancel-culture.html |access-date=July 29, 2021 |date=November 2, 2019}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Douthat |first=Ross |title=10 Theses About Cancel Culture |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/opinion/cancel-culture-.html |access-date=July 29, 2021 |date=July 14, 2020}}</ref>

The phrase ''cancel culture'' gained popularity since late 2019,<!--See https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&geo=US&q=%22cancel+culture%22--> most often as a recognition that society will exact accountability for offensive conduct.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Romano |first1=Aja |title=The second wave of "cancel culture" |url=https://www.vox.com/22384308/cancel-culture-free-speech-accountability-debate |work=Vox |date=May 5, 2021 |access-date=July 29, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reddy |first1=Vasu |last2=Andrews |first2=Donna |date=2021 |title=Cancel Culture: Shrinking or Remaking Narratives? (2022) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/835503 |journal=Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |volume=106 |issue=1 |pages=130–132 |doi=10.1353/trn.2021.0026 |s2cid=239855465 |issn=1726-1368}}</ref> Into the 2020s, the phrase has become a shorthand employed by conservatives in the United States to refer to what are perceived to be disproportionate reactions to politically incorrect speech.<ref name="Brown 2020" /> 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.&nbsp;... 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."<ref name="Mishan 2020">{{cite news |last=Mishan |first=Ligaya |date=December 3, 2020 |title=The Long and Tortured History of Cancel Culture |work=T |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/t-magazine/cancel-culture-history.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201204143436/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/t-magazine/cancel-culture-history.html |archive-date=December 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=February 18, 2021 |title=Cancel culture: Have any two words become more weaponised? |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55959135 |access-date=March 22, 2021}}</ref>

The 1981 Chic album ''Take It Off'' includes the song "Your Love Is Cancelled", which compares a breakup to the [[Engineering:Cancellation (broadcasting)|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''.<ref name=mcgrady/> This usage introduced the term to African-American Vernacular English, where it eventually became more common.<ref>{{cite web |last=Webster |first= Elizabeth N. |date=2021-12-24 |title=Cancel Culture Will Not Be Canceled |url=https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/cancel-culture-will-not-be-canceled-22d46f0829c6 |access-date=2022-03-03 |website=AfroSapiophile }}</ref>

== Academic analysis ==
An article written by Pippa Norris, a professor at Harvard University, states that the controversies surrounding cancel culture are between the ones who argue it gives a voice to those in marginalized communities, while the opposing side argues 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ng |first=Eve |date=2020-07-26 |title=No Grand Pronouncements Here...: Reflections on Cancel Culture and Digital Media Participation |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476420918828 |journal=Television & New Media |volume=21 |issue=6 |pages=621–627 |doi=10.1177/1527476420918828 |s2cid=220853829 |issn=1527-4764}}</ref> Additionally, online communications studies have demonstrated the intensification of cultural wars through activists that are connected through digital and social networking sites.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bouvier |first1=Gwen |last2=Machin |first2=David |date=2021-04-15 |title=What gets lost in Twitter 'cancel culture' hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926520977215 |journal=Discourse & Society |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=307–327 |doi=10.1177/0957926520977215 |s2cid=233279610 |issn=0957-9265}}</ref> Norris also mentions that the spiral of silence theory may be a contributing factor as to why people are hesitant to voice their own minority views on social media sites in fear that their views and opinions, specifically political opinions, will be chastised because their views violate the majority group's norms and understanding.<ref name="Norris 2021">{{cite journal |last=Norris |first=Pippa |date=2021-08-11 |title=Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality? |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00323217211037023 |journal=Political Studies |volume=71 |pages=145–174 |doi=10.1177/00323217211037023 |s2cid=238647612 |issn=0032-3217}}</ref>

In the book ''The Coddling of the American Mind'' (2018), social psychologist [[Biography:Jonathan Haidt|Jonathan Haidt]] and free-speech activist Greg Lukianoff 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haidt |first1=Jonathan |last2=Lukianoff |first2=Greg |author-link2=Greg Lukianoff |title=The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure  |publisher=Penguin Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-7352-2489-6 |location=New York City |oclc=1007552624 }} For ''safetyism'', see {{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9-o6DwAAQBAJ&q=safetyism+call-out+culture  | title = The Coddling of the American Mind | pages = 30, 158, 235, 268, 329| isbn = 978-0-7352-2490-2 | last1 = Lukianoff | first1 = Greg | last2 = Haidt | first2 = Jonathan | date = September 4, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Bradley|last2= Paresky |first2=Pamela |date=June 1, 2020 |title=Safetyism Isn't the Problem |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/opinion/safetyism-coronavirus-reopening.html |access-date=December 20, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=June 15, 2020|title=Safetyism Isn't the Problem |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/safetyism-isnt-the-problem.html |publisher=Association for Psychological Science|access-date=December 20, 2022}}</ref> Keith Hampton, professor of media studies at [[Organization:Michigan State University|Michigan State University]], contends that the practice contributes to political polarization in the United States but does not lead to changes in opinion.<ref>{{cite news |last=Agence France Presse |date=July 22, 2020 |title=La "cancel culture", nouvelle arme des anonymes et facteur de polarisation |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/07/22/la-cancel-culture-nouvelle-arme-des-anonymes-et-facteur-de-polarisation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727073137/https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/07/22/la-cancel-culture-nouvelle-arme-des-anonymes-et-facteur-de-polarisation |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |access-date=July 24, 2020 |work=Le Journal de Montréal |language=fr}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ng |first=Eve |date=July 26, 2020 |title=No Grand Pronouncements Here&nbsp;...: Reflections on Cancel Culture and Digital Media Participation |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1527476420918828 |volume=21 |issue=16 |pages=621–627 |doi=10.1177/1527476420918828 |access-date=February 12, 2021 |journal=Television and New Media |s2cid=220853829}}</ref> Cultural studies scholar Frances E. Lee states that call-out culture leads to self-policing of "wrong, oppressive, or inappropriate" opinions.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Frances E.|date=September 17, 2017 |title='Excommunicate me from the church of social justice': an activist's plea for change |work=The Sunday Magazine |publisher=CBC Radio |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-september-17-2017-1.4291332/excommunicate-me-from-the-church-of-social-justice-an-activist-s-plea-for-change-1.4291383}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists |url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017/10/13/why-ive-started-to-fear-my-fellow-social-justice-activists |access-date=July 28, 2020 |website=Yes!}}</ref> According to Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan professor of [[Social:Media studies|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".<ref name="Bromwich 2018" /><ref>{{cite journal |last=Velasco |first=Joseph |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344772779 |title=You are Cancelled: Virtual Collective Consciousness and the Emergence of Cancel Culture as Ideological Purging |date=October 2020 |journal=Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities |volume=12 |issue=5 |publisher=Conference: 1st Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities |doi=10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s21n2|s2cid=230647906 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wei |first1=M. L. |last2=Bunjun |first2=Benita |date=October 21, 2020 |title='We are not the shoes of white supremacists': a critical race perspective of consumer responses to brand attempts at countering racist associations |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2020.1806907 |volume=36 |issue=13–14 |pages=1252–1279 |doi=10.1080/0267257X.2020.1806907 |issn=0267-257X |journal=Journal of Marketing Management |s2cid=226315082}}</ref>

Some academics proposed alternatives and improvements to cancel culture. Critical [[Philosophy:Multiculturalism|multiculturalism]] professor Anita Bright<!--{{cite web |title=Anita Bright |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8mkLRx0AAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=August 28, 2020 |website=Google Scholar}}--> proposed "calling in" rather than "calling out" in order to bring forward the former's idea of [[Social:Accountability|accountability]] but in a more "humane, humble, and bridge-building" light.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bright |first1=Anita |last2=Gambrell |first2=James |date=2017 |title=Calling In, Not Calling Out: A Critical Race Framework for Nurturing Cross-Cultural Alliances in Teacher Candidates |url=http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/calling-in-not-calling-out/163988 |access-date=August 28, 2020 |website=Handbook of Research on Promoting Cross-Cultural Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education |doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-0897-7.ch011 |isbn=9781522508977 |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Matei |first=Adrienne |date=November 1, 2019 |title=Call-out culture: how to get it right (and wrong) |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/01/call-out-culture-obama-social-media |access-date=August 31, 2020 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Professor [[Biography:Joshua Knobe|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.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Stein |first=J. |date=August 13, 2015 |title=I'm making the case for public shaming-unless you publicly shame me for doing so |magazine=Time |url=https://time.com/3995794/im-making-the-case-for-public-shaming-unless-you-publicly-shame-me-for-doing-so/ |access-date=March 8, 2021}}</ref>

== Reactions ==
The expression ''cancel culture'' has mostly negative connotations and is used in debates on free speech and censorship.<ref name="Brown 2020">{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Dalvin |date=July 17, 2020|title=Twitter's cancel culture: A force for good or a digital witchhunt? The answer is complicated. |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/07/17/has-twitters-cancel-culture-gone-too-far/5445804002/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724074528/https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/07/17/has-twitters-cancel-culture-gone-too-far/5445804002/ |archive-date=July 24, 2020 |website=[[Software:USA Today|USA Today]] |access-date=December 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=July 21, 2020|title=Where Did Cancel Culture Come From? |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/cancel-culture/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630232725/https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/cancel-culture/ |archive-date=June 30, 2020 |website=Dictionary.com }}</ref>

Former US President [[Biography:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]] warned against social media call-out culture, 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."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bostock|first=Bill|date=October 30, 2019|title=Obama laid into young people being 'politically woke' and 'as judgmental as possible' in a speech about call-out culture |work=Business Insider|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-slams-call-out-culture-young-not-activism-2019-10|url-status=live|access-date=July 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723235259/https://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-slams-call-out-culture-young-not-activism-2019-10|archive-date=July 23, 2020}}</ref> Former US President Donald Trump criticized cancel culture in a speech in July 2020, comparing it to [[Philosophy:Totalitarianism|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 criticized as being hypocritical for having attempted to cancel a number of people and companies in the past himself.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Daniel Dale |title=A list of people and things Donald Trump tried to get canceled before he railed against 'cancel culture' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/fact-check-trump-cancel-culture-boycotts-firings/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728211425/https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/fact-check-trump-cancel-culture-boycotts-firings/index.html |archive-date=July 28, 2020 |access-date=August 1, 2020 |website=CNN|date=July 7, 2020 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Norris 2021"/>

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".<ref>{{cite speech|author=Pope Francis|title=Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Members of the Diplomatic Corps Accredited to the Holy See|url=https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2022/january/documents/20220110-corpo-diplomatico.html|work=Vatican.va|date=January 10, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kington|first=Tom|title=Cancel culture is rewriting the past, warns Pope Francis|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2c0ace6a-7271-11ec-89e9-22d3d9c31ba2?shareToken=9103cfde5abc3f5760e744db598ece7b|work=The Times|date=January 11, 2022|access-date=January 11, 2022|archive-date=January 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111060323/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2c0ace6a-7271-11ec-89e9-22d3d9c31ba2?shareToken=9103cfde5abc3f5760e744db598ece7b|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Rocca|first=Francis X.|title=Pope Francis Denounces 'Cancel Culture' and Antivaccine 'Ideology'|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-francis-denounces-cancel-culture-and-antivaccine-ideology-11641814583|work={{wipe|The Wall Street Journal}}|date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ProCon 2020"/>

Some argue that cancel culture does have its benefits, such as allowing less powerful people to have a voice, helps marginalized people hold others accountable when the justice system doesn't work, and cancelling is a tool to bring about social change.<ref name="ProCon 2020"/> Lisa Nakamura, a professor at the [[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]], describes cancel culture as "a cultural boycott" and says it provides a culture of accountability.<ref name="Bromwich 2018"/> Meredith Clark, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, states that cancel culture gives power to disenfranchised voices.<ref name="ProCon 2020"/> 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.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Nwanevu |first=Osita |date=2019-09-23 |title=The 'Cancel Culture' Con |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/155141/cancel-culture-con-dave-chappelle-shane-gillis |access-date=2022-03-04 |issn=0028-6583}}</ref>

=== Open letter ===
Dalvin Brown, writing in ''[[Software:USA Today|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.<ref name="Brown 2020" /> 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."<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 7, 2020 |title=A Letter on Justice and Open Debate |url=https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723175921/https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ |archive-date=July 23, 2020 |website=Harper's Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=JK Rowling joins 150 public figures warning over free speech|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53330105 | date= July 8, 2020 |work=BBC |access-date=July 23, 2020}}</ref><ref name="wapo">{{Cite news |last=Chiu |first=Allyson |date=July 8, 2020 |title=Letter signed by J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky warning of stifled free speech draws mixed reviews |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/08/letter-harpers-free-speech/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724213221/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/08/letter-harpers-free-speech/ |archive-date=July 24, 2020}}</ref>

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."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schuessler |first=Jennifer |date=July 10, 2020 |title=An Open Letter on Free Expression Draws a Counterblast |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/arts/open-letter-debate.html |access-date=July 12, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Mikenzie |date=July 13, 2020 |title=Harper's letter and response signed by Northwestern academics |url=https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/07/12/campus/northwestern-academics-clash-with-opposing-letters-on-free-speech-cancel-culture/ |access-date= July 18, 2020 |website=The Daily Northwestern}}</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="Vogels et al. 2021">{{cite web |last1=Vogels |first1=Emily A. |last2=Monica |last3=Erson |last4=Porteus |first4=Margaret |last5=Baronavski |first5=Chris |last6=Atske |first6=Sara |last7=McClain |first7=Colleen |last8=Auxier |first8=Brooke |last9=Perrin |first9=rew |date=May 19, 2021 |title=Americans and 'Cancel Culture': Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/05/19/americans-and-cancel-culture-where-some-see-calls-for-accountability-others-see-censorship-punishment/ |access-date=December 20, 2022 |publisher=Pew Research Center}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Vogels et al. 2021"/> 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.<ref name="Vogels et al. 2021"/> 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.<ref name="Vogels et al. 2021"/> 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 more likely to know the term than those in the Republican Party (44%).<ref name="Vogels et al. 2021" />

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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lizza |first=Ryan |date=July 22, 2020 |title=Americans tune in to 'cancel culture' — and don't like what they see |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/americans-cancel-culture-377412 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723040244/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/americans-cancel-culture-377412 |archive-date=July 23, 2020 |access-date=July 22, 2020 |website=Politico}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Morning Consult |last2=Politico |author-link2=Politico |date=July 2020 |title=National tracking poll, July 17-19, 2020 |url=https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000173-7326-d36e-abff-7ffe72dc0000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722192513/https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000173-7326-d36e-abff-7ffe72dc0000 |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |website=Politico|access-date=December 20, 2022}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Manchester |first1=Julia |title=64 percent view 'cancel culture' as threat to freedom: poll |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/545387-64-percent-say-they-view-cancel-culture-as-a-threat-to-their-freedom-poll |access-date=April 27, 2021 |work=The Hill |date=March 29, 2021}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Schulte|first=Gabriela|date=November 8, 2021|title=Poll: Overwhelming majority say cancel culture has gone too far|url=https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/580569-poll-overwhelming-majority-say-cancel-culture-has-gone-too-far|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=The Hill}}</ref> 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%).<ref>{{cite web|last=Schulte|first=Gabriela|date=November 9, 2021|title=Poll: 69 percent say cancel culture unfairly punishes people for past actions, statements|url=https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/580747-poll-69-percent-say-cancel-culture-unfairly-punishes-people-for|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=The Hill}}</ref>

=== Criticism of the concept ===
A number of professors, politicians, journalists,<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 15, 2020 |title=Letters to the Editor: It's not 'cancel culture.' It's finally holding privileged people accountable |work={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}} |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-15/not-cancel-culture-its-finally-holding-privileged-people-accountable}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Mishra|first=Pankaj|date=July 15, 2020 |title=No, cancel culture isn't a threat to civilization |work=ThePrint |location=India |url=https://theprint.in/opinion/no-cancel-culture-isnt-a-threat-to-civilization/461331}}</ref><ref name="Fine 2021">{{Cite web |last=Fine |first=Duncan |date=March 4, 2021 |title=Dr Seuss not cancelled. Old stereotypes are being made redundant |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/dr-seuss-not-cancelled-old-stereotypes-are-being-made-redundant-20210304-p577q1.html |access-date=March 12, 2021 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref> and activists question the validity of cancel culture as an actual phenomenon.<ref name="Hagi 2019">{{Cite magazine |last=Hagi |first=Sarah |date=November 21, 2019 |title=Cancel Culture Is Not Real—At Least Not in the Way People Think |url=https://time.com/5735403/cancel-culture-is-not-real/ |access-date=March 12, 2021 |magazine=Time}}</ref> Connor Garel, writing for ''Vice'', states that cancel culture "rarely has any tangible or meaningful effect on the lives and comfortability of the cancelled."<ref name="Garel 2018">{{cite web |last=Garel|first=Connor|date=July 9, 2018|title=Logan Paul Is Proof That Problematic People Are Never Truly Cancelled |url=https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/8xb9x5/logan-paul-and-the-myth-of-cancel-culture |access-date=16 August 2020 |website=Vice}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kurtzleben| first=Danielle |date=February 10, 2021|title=When Republicans Attack 'Cancel Culture,' What Does It Mean? |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/965815679/is-cancel-culture-the-future-of-the-gop |access-date=March 12, 2021 |website=NPR}}</ref>

Historian C. J. Coventry argues that the term has been incorrectly applied, and that it more accurately reflects the propensity of people to hide historical instances of injustice.<ref name="Coventry 2020">{{Cite web|url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:33351/|title=A New Birth of Freedom: South Australia, slavery and exceptionalism|first=C. J.|last=Coventry|date=21 November 2020|website=Humanities Commons|access-date=27 October 2022}}</ref>{{efn|"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."<ref name="Coventry 2020"/>}} Another historian, David Olusoga, made a similar argument, and said it is not limited to the left.<ref name="Olusoga 2021">{{cite news |last=Olusoga|first=David|date=January 3, 2021 |title='Cancel culture' is not the preserve of the left. Just ask our historians|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/03/cancel-culture-is-not-the-preserve-of-the-left-just-ask-our-historians |newspaper={{wipe|The Guardian}}|access-date=December 20, 2022}}</ref>{{efn|"Unlike some on the left, I have never doubted that 'cancel culture' exists{{nbsp}}... 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."<ref name="Olusoga 2021"/>}} Indigenous governance professor and activist Pamela Palmater writes in ''Maclean's'' magazine that cancel culture differs from [[Social:Accountability|accountability]]; her article covers the public backlash surrounding Canadian politicians who vacationed during COVID-19, despite pandemic restrictions forbidding such behavior.<ref name="Maclean's 2021">{{Cite web |title=The entitlement of Canadian politicians - Macleans.ca |url=https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-entitlement-of-canadian-politicians/ |access-date=January 6, 2021 |website=Maclean's}}</ref> Former US Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia says 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Scalia |first=Eugene |date=2021 |title=John Adams, Legal Representation, and the 'Cancel Culture' |journal=Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=333–338 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Manavis 2020">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2020/07/cancel-culture-does-not-exist|magazine=New Statesman|date=July 16, 2020|title='Cancel culture' does not exist|first=Sarah|last=Manavis|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717045438/https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2020/07/cancel-culture-does-not-exist|archive-date=July 17, 2020|access-date=December 20, 2022}}</ref>

=== Consequence culture ===
Some media commentators including LeVar Burton and Sunny Hostin have stated that ''cancel culture'' should be renamed ''consequence culture''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fung|first=Katherine|url=https://www.newsweek.com/levar-burton-defends-cancel-culture-says-it-should-called-consequence-culture-1586506|title=LeVar Burton defends cancel culture, says it should be called 'consequence culture'|date=26 April 2021|website=Newsweek|access-date=27 October 2022}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/media/2021/03/roxane-gay-says-cancel-culture-does-not-exist/|title=Roxane Gay says cancel culture does not exist|first=Molly|last=Schwartz|website=Mother Jones|date=5 March 2021|access-date=27 October 2022}}</ref>

== In popular culture ==
* The American animated television series ''South Park'' mocked cancel culture with its own "#CancelSouthPark" campaign;<ref>{{cite web |last=Mathews |first=Liam |date=October 11, 2018 |title=South Park Just Trolled The Simpsons Really Hard, but Why? |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/south-park-cancel-the-simpsons/ |access-date=December 31, 2018 |website=TV Guide }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Andrews |first=Travis M. |date=October 17, 2018 |title=How 'South Park' became the ultimate #bothsides show |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/17/how-south-park-became-ultimate-bothsides-show/ |access-date=December 31, 2018 |newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Edwards |first=Chris |date=November 20, 2018 |title=Post-outrage TV: how South Park is surviving the era of controversy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/20/post-outrage-tv-how-south-park-is-surviving-the-era-of-controversy |access-date=December 31, 2018 |newspaper={{wipe|The Guardian}} }}</ref> in promotion of the show's twenty-second season (2018).<ref>{{cite web |last=Joho |first=Jess |date=October 12, 2018 |title=Why the latest season of 'South Park' feels like a total game-changer |url=https://mashable.com/article/south-park-season-22-problem-with-poo-explained/ |access-date=December 31, 2018 |website=Mashable }}</ref> In the season's third episode, "[[Social:The Problem with a Poo|The Problem with a Poo]]", there are references to the 2017 documentary ''The Problem with Apu'', the cancellation of ''Roseanne'' after a controversial tweet by Roseanne Barr, and the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Parker |first=Ryan |date=October 10, 2018 |title='South Park' Goes After Roseanne Barr, 'Simpsons' Apu Character |language=en |work=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/south-park-goes-roseanne-barr-simpsons-apu-character-1151462 |access-date=October 11, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Barsanti |first=Sam |date=October 9, 2018 |title=''South Park'' will somehow tackle both Brett Kavanaugh and ''The Problem With Apu'' simultaneously |url=https://news.avclub.com/south-park-will-somehow-tackle-both-brett-kavanaugh-and-1829634344 |access-date=October 10, 2018 |website=The A.V. Club }}</ref> 
* In 2019, cancel culture was a primary theme in the stand-up comedy show ''Sticks & Stones'' by Dave Chappelle.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Concerning Consent, Chappelle, and Canceling Cancel Culture |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/story/canceling-cancel-culture/ |access-date=October 19, 2020 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> 
* The 2022 film ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' satirizes cancel culture, with Leatherface killing an individual who threatens to cancel him.<ref>{{cite news|last=Eubanks|first=Alex|title=Netflix's 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is laughably bad… but that's why it's good|url=https://www.themiamihurricane.com/2022/02/25/netflixs-texas-chainsaw-massacre-is-laughably-bad-but-thats-why-its-good/|work=The Miami Hurricane|date=25 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Graham|first=Adam|title='Texas Chainsaw Massacre' review: You cannot cancel Leatherface|url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/02/18/texas-chainsaw-massacre-review-you-cannot-cancel-leatherface/6812056001/|work=The Detroit News|date=18 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=O'Neal|first=Sean|title=The New 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre': They Came, They Sawed, They Didn't Cut It |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/new-texas-chainsaw-massacre/|work=Texas Monthly|date=18 February 2022}}</ref>
* The 2022 film ''Tár'' was interpreted by several critics as possessing an anti-cancel culture message.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opinion/tar-movie-cancel-culture.html|title=Finally, a Great Movie About Cancel Culture|first=Michelle|last=Goldberg|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|date=October 21, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Chang|first=Justin|title=All the 2023 best picture Oscar nominees ranked, from worst to best |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-01-24/all-the-best-picture-nominees-ranked-oscars-nominations-2023|work={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}}|date=25 January 2023}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Blacklisting]]
* Culture war
* [[Social:Deplatforming|Deplatforming]]
* [[Finance:Divestment|Divestment]]
* [[Social:Moral entrepreneur|Moral entrepreneur]]
* [[Philosophy:Moral panic|Moral panic]]
* [[Online shaming]]
* [[Philosophy:Reactionary|Reactionary]]
* Scandal
* [[Social:Send to Coventry|Send to Coventry]]
* Shunning
* [[Philosophy:Social exclusion|Social exclusion]]
* {{annotated link|Social:Social justice warrior}}
* Witch-hunt
* [[Social:Woke|Woke]]

== Explanatory notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Bouvier |first=Gwen |year=2020 |title=Racist call-outs and cancel culture on Twitter: The limitations of the platform's ability to define issues of social justice |journal=Discourse, Context & Media |publisher=Elsevier BV |volume=38 |page=100431 |doi=10.1016/j.dcm.2020.100431 |s2cid=225015791 |issn=2211-6958}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Clark |first=Meredith D. |year=2020 |title=Drag Them: A brief etymology of so-called 'cancel culture' |journal=Communication and the Public |publisher=SAGE Publications |volume=5 |issue=3–4 |pages=88–92 |doi=10.1177/2057047320961562 |s2cid=228076523 |issn=2057-0473|doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite news |last=Kurtzleben |first=Danielle |date=February 10, 2021 |title=When Republicans Attack 'Cancel Culture,' What Does It Mean? |work=Morning Edition |publisher=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/965815679/is-cancel-culture-the-future-of-the-gop |access-date=February 17, 2021}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Norris |first=Pippa |year=2020 |title=Closed Minds? Is a 'Cancel Culture' Stifling Academic Freedom and Intellectual Debate in Political Science? |journal=SSRN Electronic Journal |publisher=Elsevier BV |doi=10.2139/ssrn.3671026 |s2cid=225517117 |issn=1556-5068}}
* {{Cite news |date=April 13, 2018 |title=The Callout |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/601971617/the-callout |access-date=March 11, 2021 |website=NPR |ref={{sfnref|NPR.org|2018}}}}
* {{Cite web |last=Masnick |first=Mike |date=March 21, 2022 |title=The 'Culture Of Free Speech' Includes Criticism Of Others' Speech; Get Over It |url=https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/21/the-culture-of-free-speech-includes-criticism-of-others-speech-get-over-it/ |access-date=December 20, 2022 |website=Techdirt}}
* {{Cite web |last1=Mooney |first1=Taylor |last2=Sherman |first2=Justin |title=How 'cancel culture' changed these three lives forever |work=CBS News |date=August 13, 2020 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancel-culture-changed-lives-forever-cbsn-originals/ |language=en |accessdate=September 20, 2020 }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Nguyen |first1=Brandon |title=Cancel Culture on Twitter: The Effects of Information Source and Messaging on Post Shareability and Perceptions of Corporate Greenwashing |journal=Wharton Research Scholars |date=2020 |url=https://repository.upenn.edu/wharton_research_scholars/197 }}
* {{Cite news |last1=Ohlheiser |first1=Abby |last2=Izadi |first2=Elahe |title=Analysis – A step-by-step guide to why people can't stop arguing about 'cancel culture' |newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}} |date=September 18, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/09/18/step-by-step-guide-why-people-cant-stop-arguing-about-cancel-culture/ |issn=0190-8286  }}

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