Title

From cancel culture to changing culture

Document Type

Editorial

Authors

Liz Theriault

Date

9-23-2019

Keywords

Social justice, Public shaming, Exile (Punishment), Ethics

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Description

What do big-name celebrities like James Charles, Taylor Swift, James Gunn, Laura Lee, Kayne West, PewDiePie, Roseanne Barr, Shane Gillis, Logan Paul have incommon? They have, at one point in their careers, been “canceled.” Hoards of their social media followers took to Twitter, Facebook and Youtube to hurl insults and declare the celebrities “canceled.” Each of these celebrities has become the target of cancel culture. But what exactly does that mean? Cancel culture is defined by the holy grail of internet slang, the Urban Dictionary, as a “modern internet phenomenon where a person is ejected from influence or fame [because of] questionable actions. It is caused by a critical mass of people who are quick to judge and slow to question.”

Identifier

Racial Justice_Maine Campus_2021_01_16j

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Recommended Citation

Theriault, Liz, "From cancel culture to changing culture" (2019). University of Maine Racial Justice Collection. 170.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/racial_justice/170