'In an era of too much everything, we’ve come to rely on a vocabulary of consolidation: likes, tweets, emoji. Cancel culture is one of these argots—a governor, a self-regulatory device I have come to wield with pride.' (From 2018)
, West paired a rose-red MAGA cap and a sweatshirt with Colin Kaepernick’s name inscribed on it—then attempted to broker a meeting between the two poles. “Let’s have a dialogue not a diatribe,”. It’s all been a baffling piece of grotesquerie: West celebrates and condemns, enlightens and mocks, preaches peace but fails to practice it. His is a gospel of one—provocation for the sake of performance.
I found myself among the converts, a former fan turned loud-and-proud dissenter. I once, perhaps ineffectively,that West contending with his feelings in the spotlight—as a black man, a husband, a son, a college dropout—was significant in helping to “unsettle this idea of how a black man should act or talk or love when others are watching.” In hindsight, I probably could have been less cavalier in my assessment, but I do think he has helped complicate unduly monolithic ideas of public blackness.
With roots in Black Twitter, cancel culture is an unavoidable mainstay of our infotainment age. In an era of too much everything—TV, opinions, news—we’ve come to rely on a vocabulary of consolidation: likes, tweets, emoji. Cancel culture is one of these argots—a governor, a self-regulatory device I have come to wield with pride . In the collective, the gesture is absolute: we can’t. We’re done. And so we asphyxiate support from a notable cause or figure.
Cancellation is an act of catharsis, of rebellion—and, as such, it has come under fire for being little more than a purity test. Critic Wesley Morris wrapped those arguments into a nifty bow in: “The conversations are exasperated, the verdicts swift, conclusive and seemingly absolute. The goal is to protect and condemn work, not for its quality, per se, but for its values,”
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