renniequeer:

I feel like the conversation around “cancel culture” is inherently disingenuous because half the people in it are defining cancel culture as “experiencing consequences for shitty actions” and the other half are defining it as “online spaces dogpiling people for vague hearsay of a vaguely problematic thing they may or may not have actually done fifteen years ago, and may have been entirely made up by people who have personal beef with them.”

One is good. One is very bad. But they both get referred to by the same term, and that’s…an issue.

Like, if I hear somebody complaining about “cancel culture,” what do they mean? Did they say something racist and get called out for it, or are they being smeared and called an abuser by a bunch of te/rfs because they participate in BDSM, and nobody bothered to fact check it before hurling around really serious accusations?