‘Want to know why and how cancel culture is bullying? Here is what makes it so to give you a better understanding of it and to help you to better make the connection.
During the last ten years or so, there’s been a ton of cancel culture going on not only in this country, but around the globe. Moreover, cancel culture seeks to do many things- to instill fear in people, silence them, and tear them down. Therefore, cancel culture is bullying.
In this post, you will learn exactly what makes cancel culture another form of bullying and why we all should look at it as such.
Once you learn all the connections and associations, you will be able to better and more clearly call it out and shed some light on it.
Cancel Culture Is Bullying
Though, it’s disguised as a means to expose wrongdoing, abuses of power, and atrocities committed by those in power, it is, in fact, used by powerful people to subdue the less powerful.
Moreover, they use it as a means to strike fear in, silence and oppress everyday people who are brave enough to call them out for their bullying and evil deeds.
Therefore, cancel culture and bullying are no different. Why? Because there’s an imbalance of power, an intent to do harm, and to keep the victims of it in fear and hardship.
Double standards
When it happens in school or the workplace, we call it bullying. When it happens on a political or government level, we call it cancel culture. Therefore, again, understand that cancel culture and bullying are one and the same.
Cancel culture enforces a double-standard and holds targeted people to standards that no one outside the targeted group lives up to. Bullying does the same with it’s victims.
What is wrong for a each person in the targeted group is right for those in the in-group. What’s celebrated for one person or group is loathed in another. What’s deemed illegal for one person or group is legal, even heroism in another.
Therefore, does this sound familiar? It should.
This is bullying on a grand scale. Because one group has the right to commit crimes, hurt, and kill people. However, the “other” group doesn’t even have the right to defend themselves or their families and homes against the same criminals who are given carte blanche to harm them.
The message cancel culture send is, “We can, you can’t,” “Do as I say, not as I do,” “Rules for thee and not for me,” and dissenting opinions need not apply.”
Cancel Culture is bullying:
It destroys lives.
Many people have lost their jobs, livelihoods, homes, even families to cancel culture. Therefore, cancel culture is bullying. Moreover, it isn’t right to refuse someone else’s right to speak, think, work, flourish, and exist.
And this goes even if they have different opinions, beliefs, and perspectives than you. We must realize that everyone is different. In other words, we all have diverse beliefs, opinions, perspectives, convictions, and ways of thinking.
Moreover, different aspects of our lives shape them.
So, what shapes our opinions, beliefs, and perspectives?
Several things:
- The family we’re born into
- The environment we grew up in
- Personal experiences
- Education
- Culture
It isn’t just defamation and smear campaigns. No! It goes much further.
It includes doxing the victim. In other words, if you’re that victim, online enemies will dig up information about you and your family. Then, they’ll use it to cause harm to you and your loved ones.
Cancel culture seeks to take away your good name and standing in society. Moreover, it also seeks to remove your rights to earn a living and feed your family. At it’s most dangerous, cancel culture usurps also yours and your family’s rights to physical safety.
Cancel culture is bullying because It is evil and malicious.
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, cancel culture is wrong and it has to stop!
Everyone has a divine, God-given right to their own opinions, to be neutral, or to stay silent. These are Human rights, and again, no matter what side of the aisle we’re on, we each have those rights!
However, right before our very eyes, evil forces are conditioning people not to defend their most precious rights. Moreover, innocent citizens are being programmed not to believe what they see happening, nor to listen to their God-given gut instincts.
This is concerning!
Nowadays, it’s too easy to destroy someone’s life and take everything from them. We’re talking about everything they’ve worked hard their whole lives for.
Sadly, if a bully wants to destroy you, they don’t need evidence of any wrongdoing on your part to back them up. In other words, they don’t need any sort of proof to do it.
All it takes is an accusation, an allegation, or suggestion. Or, it can be a screenshot or any online post from twenty years ago.
That’s right! If bullies can’t find anything on you, they’ll dig up anything from your distant past.
All it takes is one harmless joke from way back when that’s now deemed offensive. Bullies can also use a picture of you from the seventies or eighties. And you could be wearing a Halloween costume that is seen as politically incorrect today.
Bullies can also dig up something from years ago, a high school photo. They could find an old photo of you when you were a wet-behind-the-ears teenager and wipe you out! There’s no forgiveness or redemption on the internet!
Cancel Culture is Bullying:
It doesn’t matter that kids eventually grow up.
Cancel Culture doesn’t take into consideration that people grow up. In other words, it doesn’t care about the fact that people change as they get older. It doesn’t care whether you learn from your mistakes.
In short, maturity doesn’t sway it. Cancel culture has no concern that we all do and say ignorant things when we’re kids. It doesn’t care that we’re all human beings capable of making errors.
Therefore, understand that if bullies cannot pin anything on you, they will claim that you’re mentally imbalanced. And, if that doesn’t stick, they will dig up something, anything from your past that puts you in a bad light.
Cancel culture is bullying of the highest order. It’s also stalking and it’s dangerous. It puts our very lives at risk.
In fact, people have had to flee their own homes due to doxxing and having their lives and family threatened. Some have gone into hiding. There are even a few who have had to go underground.
It is my hope that people wake up and see the craziness and obsessiveness of cancel culture. Each and every one of us should take a stand against this madness.
Cancel Culture is Bullying and it Breeds Cyber-Bullies Who Are Twice as Dangerous
Cancel Culture is the new cyber-bullying. People say that it was intended for the purpose of shaming celebrities and other people in power for bad behavior.
And maybe it was intended that way. However, as the old saying goes, “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” And it’s definitely true when it comes to this form of cyberbullying.
However, what it really does is give cyber-bullies a green light to bully anyone they deem unworthy of existing.
Therefore, it breeds cyber-bullies who are more dangerous. It even breeds cyber-criminals!
Many celebrities have been cancelled. However, they’re already rich and set for life. They have built nest eggs of tens of millions of dollars to fall back on, if cyberbullies decide to target them for cancellation.
Therefore, cancel culture won’t affect them like it would a normal, everyday person with a job, bills, and a family to feed.
However, common people suffer the most when bullies target them for cancelling. Interestingly, cyber-bullies love to target commoners because they haven’t built a financial cushion to rest on.
Therefore, cyber-bullies will come after them before they will those who are already set.
Bullies want want their attacks to have the maximum negative effect. Therefore, they’ll pick those who don’t have the wherewithal to protect themselves, their families, and their assets.
Cancel Culture is Bullying:
Here’s The Best Alternative.
Cancel culture doesn’t only take away the rights of creators, it also removes the rights of consumers as well. Therefore, here’s my message to those who encourage this kind of bullying.
If you don’t like something, fine. You have a right not to like it and you have a right not to have anything to do with it. What you don’t have a right to do is take away my choice to buy it, judge for myself, and like it.
This kind of bullying violates the personal rights and boundaries of everyone! It seeks to tell you what it thinks you should do. It tells you what to read, watch, eat, use, and who to associate with
. In short, cancel culture strips us all of our God-given rights to self-determination.
But isn’t that what all bullies do, strip their victims (and everyone else) of their right to choose? Their right to have an opinion? The right to speak and to have dignity? Their rights to self-determination?
The alternative to cancel culture is using common sense. In other words, if you don’t like someone, don’t associate with the person. However, don’t take away my right to decide that I want to associate with them.
If you see an item for sale in a store and you don’t like it, then don’t buy it. But, don’t take away my right to like it, choose it, and buy it.
If you don’t like the brand or, more appropriately, if the brand “offends” you, don’t buy it.
Does the show offend you? Then don’t watch it.
Does the business offend you? There’s a simple solution. Don’t patronize it.
If you don’t like the book, don’t read it.
Do you see how this works? It’s that simple.
This post was all about the reasons cancel culture is bullying So that you can call it out like it is.
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