Cancel Culture, vigilante culture

Cancel Culture Violence culture.

Have you ever seen the phenomenon of someone being bullied blindly both on social media and in the real world for the behavior he did? If so, it means that you already understand what Cancel Culture is.

Cancel Culture according to Mirriam-Webster, a book publishing company from the United States, Cancel Culture is the act of inviting others to boycott someone or something. Victims of Cancel Culture can be a person or other entity.

Boycotts or mass rejections are becoming easier for us to find. This is also influenced by the ease with which information is conveyed from one party to another. The problem is that the information is not guaranteed to be true.

Victims of Cancel Culture themselves usually suffer a lot of losses, both material and immaterial. One of the long-term losses is a tarnished good name due to the stigma of the community who have been unable to carry out boycotts and hate for no reason blindly.

There are many examples of Cancel Culture behavior, one of which is the boycott and severance of economic relations with Russia by several European countries and even the world. These countries argued that this was done as punishment for Russia for having invaded Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Russian side, in this case, President Vladimir Putin, said that the boycott was a form of cancel culture. Not only economic activities, the world community also boycotted everything related to Russia, from arts and culture to social relations.

Another example of cancel culture is the case that happened to Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp himself was accused of domestic violence against his wife. This makes the public and business people to boycott him. Johnny Depp's contract with several parties was terminated, one of which was his role in the Fantastic Beasts film as Grindelwald had to end and be replaced by someone else.

Not only the two cases, there are many examples of cancel culture cases that we can find both in everyday life and on social media. With the ease with which information is spread from one party to another, cancel culture behavior is very vulnerable to occur.

CANCEL CULTURE PREVENTION

The negative impact of the cancel culture behavior is that the cornered party in this case is the victim of the cancel culture does not get the right to defend himself. Cancel culture behavior can be prevented from yourself by seeking as many references as possible for the information received. However, even though we have confirmed that the information is true, it does not become a justification for us to practice cancel culture excessively

Freedom of expression is guaranteed by law, however, there are still ethics in expressing opinions. Moreover, if the case that we blaspheme turns out to have entered the legal route and is handled by the authorities.