Cancel Culture

The act of canceling, also referred to as cancel culture (a variant on the term "callout culture") describes a type of left-wing boycott in which an individual (usually a celebrity) who has shared a right-wing opinion, or has had behavior in their past that is perceived to be politically incorrect, is "canceled"; they are ostracized and shunned by former friends, followers and supporters alike, leading to declines in any careers and fan-base the individual may have at any given time. It is affiliated with the "Great Awokening", a term that has been used to describe a cultural revolution in the United States and other Western countries that has been ongoing since the presidency of Barack Obama.

Types

Call-outs

Calling someone out online, sometimes referred to as call-out culture or outrage culture, is a form of public humiliation or shaming that aims to hold individuals and groups accountable for actions perceived to be offensive by extreme left-wing groups, who then call attention to this behavior, usually on social media.

Michael Bérubé, a professor of literature at Pennsylvania State University, states, "in social media, what is known as 'callout culture' and 'ally theater'" . . . "often produces a swell of online outrage that demands that a post or a tweet be taken down or deleted".

Doxing

Main article: Doxing

Doxing involves researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual, often with the intention of harming that person.

Negative reviews

User generated review sites such as Yelp, Google Books and Trip Advisor have been used to punish businesses. Internet users are urged to give negative reviews in order to harm corporate interests or businesses they dislike.

Revenge porn

Main article: Revenge porn

Sharing sexually explicit material in order to humiliate a person, frequently distributed by computer hackers or ex-partners. Images and video of sexual acts are often combined with doxing of a person's private details, such as their home addresses and workplaces.

Reactionary backlash

Main article: Counterculture of the 2010s and 2020s

There has been an increasingly rebellious backlash against cancel culture, including protests against COVID-19 mandates and, particularly in the wake of the anti-white cultural revolution following the death of George Floyd, a slowly increasing amount of support for highly controversial past and present political figures largely despised by the mainstream media and other politically correct organizations, such as Andrew Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Vidkun Quisling, Oswald Mosley, Hendrik Verwoerd, Ian Smith, George Lincoln Rockwell, William Luther Pierce, David Duke, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Enoch Powell, John Tyndall and Mark Collett.

See also

• Affirmative action
• Anti-Holocaust revisionism
• Hate crime
• Hate speech
• Laws against Holocaust denial
• Newspeak
• Thoughtcrime