Diandra Maria Pânișoară
Cancel culture: Benefits and Negative Effects on Free Speech
I t is fundamental to understand how we view objective situations and whether the objectivity with which we analyze a situation gives us the right to intervene both as individuals and as a collective in a civilized society. Oxford English Dictionary describes “damnatio memoriae” as “a term for a form of punishment whereby a deceased public figure identified as an enemy of the state was erased from public record, typically by obliterating inscriptions, destroying statues or portraits, or revoking measures introduced by that person.”. The definition of “cancel culture” given by Cambridge Dictionary is “a way of behaving in a society or group, especially on social media, in which it is common to completely reject and stop supporting someone because they have said or done something that offends you.” The two concepts are quite similar given the circumstances provided by the time difference and the social aspects of the human understanding of what to do with a possible offensive or inappropriate concept created by an individual in a position of power. We can begin to understand the fundamental impacts of cancel culture and whether they are positive or dismiss the main issue when advocating for social justice factoring in The Paradox of Tolerance. It implies that a society that has tolerance as a primary virtue and tolerates even intolerance inevitably becomes the opposite of what was intended, a society that lacks its initial foundation, meaning tolerance.
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