Re: What is "cancel culture"?
I'm not saying that JUST watching Pepe le Pew is going to turn you into a rapist. That's not the point. Glad you think you turned out great.
The point is that if an ideology is pervasive in our entire lives - the media we consume, the people we speak to, the dates we go on, our parents tell us, etc ...it changes our world view growing up.
I grew up in a time before we talked about residential schools, because they were still active when I was a kid. I suspect you did too. I also grew up in a racist home, though as a kid, I had no way of knowing. It wasn't until I moved to an indigenous community in my mid-20s that I realized that I grew up with thoughts that I thought were normal, but were actually super dismissive and racist. But think about it: I grew up in the 90s. Where I lived, "Squaw" was a common nickname. We played cowboys and Indians. I have indigenous blood and I was so ashamed about it that I didn't tell anyone until I was an adult. Homeless people were often indigenous. Dr. Suess had racist books. Blackface was still an accepted halloween costume. Do you see my point? I grew up surrounded by a belief that was held by so many that I didn't know racism was a word, or that it was bad. We were just better. This is just how you treated people.
This is why cancel culture is so pervasive now, and why it is a good thing. If you are a young boy growing up, and your father perpetrates this idea that women owe you something because you're a man, and then you see on TV that saying no to a man is bad, and you're told in school if a girl is mean to you, it means she likes you, then you become a teenager and you're told that women always say no before they say yes, then you grow up having a certain belief, right? Because it's EVERYWHERE, and we treat it as normal. When it's not.
If we cancel certain books, and cancel certain television shows, then we break a few links in that long line of learning. Maybe you see that something said in the home ISN'T promoted anywhere else, and instead of growing up believing you're entitled to a women's body, you realize your family grew up in a different time than you, and that you are the future and can change this for the better...you don't grow up with that opinion. You break the cycle.
That's why we have cancel culture.
Originally posted by Bartmanhomer
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The point is that if an ideology is pervasive in our entire lives - the media we consume, the people we speak to, the dates we go on, our parents tell us, etc ...it changes our world view growing up.
I grew up in a time before we talked about residential schools, because they were still active when I was a kid. I suspect you did too. I also grew up in a racist home, though as a kid, I had no way of knowing. It wasn't until I moved to an indigenous community in my mid-20s that I realized that I grew up with thoughts that I thought were normal, but were actually super dismissive and racist. But think about it: I grew up in the 90s. Where I lived, "Squaw" was a common nickname. We played cowboys and Indians. I have indigenous blood and I was so ashamed about it that I didn't tell anyone until I was an adult. Homeless people were often indigenous. Dr. Suess had racist books. Blackface was still an accepted halloween costume. Do you see my point? I grew up surrounded by a belief that was held by so many that I didn't know racism was a word, or that it was bad. We were just better. This is just how you treated people.
This is why cancel culture is so pervasive now, and why it is a good thing. If you are a young boy growing up, and your father perpetrates this idea that women owe you something because you're a man, and then you see on TV that saying no to a man is bad, and you're told in school if a girl is mean to you, it means she likes you, then you become a teenager and you're told that women always say no before they say yes, then you grow up having a certain belief, right? Because it's EVERYWHERE, and we treat it as normal. When it's not.
If we cancel certain books, and cancel certain television shows, then we break a few links in that long line of learning. Maybe you see that something said in the home ISN'T promoted anywhere else, and instead of growing up believing you're entitled to a women's body, you realize your family grew up in a different time than you, and that you are the future and can change this for the better...you don't grow up with that opinion. You break the cycle.
That's why we have cancel culture.
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