The Dangers of “Cancel Culture” are Distant and Abstract

I know a lot of valuable people who believe a lot of weird and wacky things, including disturbing things. It's a waste to dispose of those people and perspectives as lightly as has become the fashion. They tend to be worth multiples of normal people when it comes to learning about the world.

Worse than someone who thinks independently but to a tragic conclusion is someone who thinks in lock step with their aspirational social group and works to exclude people who don't. But let's not cancel them either.

It's easy to see parallels to other cultural revolutions and irrational mob activities, none of which are looked fondly upon by history.

I am generally in favor of the idea of cancel culture being that 'cancel culture' is defined as a modern iteration of boycotting which, I believe, is an effective protest tool.

I just hope people executing or practicing 'cancellation' to be more discerning as to who or which really deserves the backlash. A 10-year-old one-off tweet should not be a cause for cancellation.

So back to shaming then?

Highlighting the supposed wrongdoings of others forces people to respond.

I think there was some dude 2000+ years ago saying something about a speck in someone else's eye.