Cancel culture is real, and it is bad.
Cancel culture is the term people use to refer to excessive cases of people losing prestige, platform, money, etc. over things like having a controversial opinion, or doing one bad thing, sometimes a long time ago. It’s a long-running problem, far older than social media. For example, in 1804, Aaron Burr cancelled Alexander Hamilton.
One clear example of cancel culture from modern American history is McCarthyism. During the Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy destroyed the career of person after person over the fears that they might be a communist. Eventually people at the time realized that cancel culture is bad, leading to this famous statement against McCarthy: “Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” This is marked as the point where the American public cancelled Joseph McCarthy.
(Pictured below: A sign pointing towards Cancel, origin of cancel culture.)
You might be thinking, “wait, if they thought cancelling was bad, why did they cancel him?” You’d be right in noticing that this is a logical problem. Luckily for them, logic was not the strong suit of the Religious Right in the 80s, and they cancelled everyone. They cancelled drug users. They cancelled gay people. They even cancelled Teletubbies. They went so far that they took AIDS as God’s cancellation of drug users and gay men, even though Tinky Winky was regretfully spared.
Today, the aftermath of this mass-cancellation remains. The President of the United States is on a constant cancellation rampage, pointing his attack dogs to anyone he doesn’t like, whether that be CNN or a Republican nicknamed Mittens. Unfortunately, his attack dogs are overrepresented in our law enforcement, leading them to try to cancel journalists for doing their job. One journalist straight up lost her eye for taking photos, because a police officer shot her in the goddamned head. Props to her, she didn’t take the L and continues to protest.
As you can see, cancel culture is a blight on our society and needs to be ended. Vote for me and as your president, I will issue an executive order banning cancel culture on day one.
… wait, you didn’t think this was about Rowling or something, did you? She’s rich as hell and has a bazillion followers on twitter. She’s fine.