I was reading something at one site regarding how one person know to another well was trated but I didn't respond as that person had made it plain, which is their right, to discuss the overarching theme in their opinion wasn't helpful or needed.
Perhaps so, but it is in there.
What is called Cancel Culture really is that theme which isn't helped by binary differences over how it is seen but the essence of what happens is person X makes a remark, was noted to had done something now or in the past that falls foul of modern sensibilities and so a huge multimedia campaign is started to remove all references to that person or to refer to them as either sexist, racist, pedo, colonialist etc so they are dropped from anything, art is removed, books are pulped, records no longer played so the person is treated as if they didn't exist and aren't a part of society if they are alive.
Most of us accept the idea a persons actions can be at least shameful and may even argue shaming may have a place in society reinforcing those values it holds dear but unlike anything that has been through a process such as court trial or inquiry where facts are exampled much tends to be driven by activists who just attempt to find the evidence to back the assertion, doesn't allow for proper evaluation of that as a modern day internet savvy mob push on with the cancellation.
The problem I have with that is a lack of real accountability for the consequences of the actions taken not that anything you found was handed over to an appropriate authority which makes sense, so people can lose work, become debtors, lose homes with no comeback if there was any mistakes made just because all involved were convinced they'd done something wrong and without "due process" HAD to be punished.
It's not unknown for people involved not to check thoroughly what they are asserting, people and organizations become more concerned about being linked to someone criticized than if it is true or not so they "get tossed under a bus" anyway.
Some areas of life and beliefs are just where attitudes have changed over the years which may be a good thing but what that individual was not seen as wrong at the time so while an apology has a place today for what they did or supported, we are effectively trying people today but standards that might be centuries old.
And how would you feel if as a major figure in a hundred years time that would happen to you?
That's why I don't join 'pile ons' on social media.
It's not because I don't believe wrong doing should go unpunished, It's I believe matters should be properly dealt with and while the past may be be what we feel is right today having every right to say so, we need to understand the times to.
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