'Cancel culture has given a voice to the voiceless at a time when other aspects of our democracy have become threatened.' Read an excerpt from MrErnestOwens upcoming book, 'The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All':
Before we were calling it cancel culture, society got caught up in the term political correctness. What started as an inside joke of a phrase in the late 1980s became all the rage within the media in the 1990s as political pundits and public figures began to bash the term in pop culture. The same thing is happening now with cancel culture: Powerful people are trying to suggest that they are being suppressed by the new ways that everyday people are reacting to their behavior.
Some suggest a rebranding. “In terms of cancel culture, I think it’s misnamed,” said famed host and actor. “That’s a misnomer. I think we have a consequence culture, and that consequences are finally encompassing everybody in the society, whereas they haven’t been ever in this country.” Burton was right in his assessment of what society is currently doing in this wave of cancel culture and how it’s showing “good signs that are happening in the culture right now.
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