Over the last year a popular new term has quickly gained traction on social media: cancel

culture. This phrase describes the practice of withdrawing support from celebrities,
influencers, content creators or even companies in response to an action that is widely seen
as offensive or immoral. In theory, this online ostracism seems beneficial, as it gives the
people power to hold public figures accountable for immoral actions or other things that law
enforcement has no say in. However, many instances have demonstrated that this power
can be easily abused, resulting in the “canceling” going too far or people getting
unnecessary amounts of hate. Cancel culture has repeatedly shown that it can be
destructive, intolerant and overly hurtful, therefore it is clearly not healthy for our society.
However, numerous examples have shown that this power can be easily abused, resulting
in the "cancelling" going too far or persons receiving excessive amounts of hatred. Cancel
culture has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to be disruptive, intolerant, and unnecessarily
harsh, therefore it is definitely not beneficial to society.

Cancel culture has its power peaking with everything going online. It’s becoming evident,
parallel to the user growth of social media. From politicians, public figures,to anyone from
the community, no one is safe from it. But what does cancel culture is? What is the effect of
it? Cancel culture, popular in social media platforms, is a surge of the emotion of the
masses, fueled by what they deemed as wrong or foolish, resulting in an individual or a
group of people being “canceled”. It is the reaction of the masses to someone’s actions that
had an aggressive impact on them, resulting in the teeming of emotions, and in emotions,
there is hatred, anger, irritation, and resentment that was the stimulus to the reaction. If
there is one word to describe cancel culture, it is toxic. It is toxic in the sense that it is
subjective and not considered to be critical.

As wolves, lions, sheep, and dolphins travel in packs or groups for survival, mob mentality
as a human tendency can more likely establish aggressiveness rather than survival, as
seen in cancel culture. With the presence of social media, culture continues to flourish as it
grants bonds within groups to strengthen their stand and opinion and to reject others, which
creates trends that become popular. Cancel culture provides no constructive criticism, does
not provide solutions, but instead attacks the person, his personal life, applies social
pressure, and continues to humiliate him, adding that fallacies are also most of the time.

Famous rapper Kanye West has been one of those well-known celebrities that people
usually talk about because of the most well-known family air show “Keeping Up with the
Kardashians”. Kanye was a total cancel because he had released an album that talked
about a very strong past that many people don't like mentioning which was slavery its a very
difficult political topic to talk about he should have known better he lost more fame once he
decided to be a part of President Donald Trump, we all know that would be a terrible choice
if Kanye ran for president that would be a mistake America wouldn't be America anymore.
Racism is another form of rudeness, which is why Kanye was canceled for a long time; he
was an immature person, not an intelligent person, who talks about something so horrible
and disrespectful to others like that.

People only cancel when they disagree with someone's beliefs, positions, or attitudes. This
is not crucial since it implies that the best method to handle an issue is to publicly call them
out and shame them. People, in my opinion, would rather attack than educate. Cancel
culture inhibits us from examining the situation, which leads to our prejudiced conclusions.
What it does is ask us to live our lives from the perspective of others or how other people
believe things should be. This is entirely vicious because we all grew up in different cultures
and environments, which influenced our values and character, as well as shaping our minds
into what they are now. Canceling is not a criticism. Canceling involves embarrassing the
person, calling him out, and exposing him to humiliation, whereas criticism is done by
informing them why their actions were wrong, and convincing them why they should avoid
doing it by utilizing facts.

With that out of the way, what should we do? What can we do to avoid this outburst of
emotion? What we can do is remain objective and critical. We should replace “cancel
culture'' with critical thinking, be analytical in our decision-making, and let our intellect, not
our emotions, do the work. As we formulate reactions, we must allow our minds to reflect on
the variables that may have contributed to a particular action. Why don't we engage in
educated talks instead of shouting out and humiliating the person? Most of the time, after
calling the offender out, the ones who canceled would go about their business as if nothing
had happened. Is correcting and criticizing limited to a few posts and comments?

People should keep talking about it, and here is where critical thinking comes into play. To
discuss the subject objectively, with only one purpose in mind: to learn. And learning is
reciprocal. Both those who were deemed incorrect and those who were involved in the
circumstance could learn from it. We criticize in order to persuade the person to modify his
detrimental thoughts or 'wrong' opinion. What would happen if we simply called out and
shamed the person?