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cancel culture en · NOUN

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  1. (derogatory, neologism, often, uncountable) The cultural phenomenon of publicly shaming, rejecting, and ceasing to provide support to people, companies, stores, etc. that are deemed unacceptable, and calling on others to boycott them.
    • One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. 2020 July 3, Donald Trump speech at Mount Rushmore, C-SPAN:
    • Ms. Nakamura said that cancel culture was born of a desire for control. People have limited power over what is presented to them on social media platforms, which are notorious for being poorly regulated. 2018 June 28, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Everyone Is Canceled”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2020:
    • In the past, we dismissed people and institutionalized doing so as law and unwritten laws. Today, I fear that we are making dismissing people the cool thing to do with “cancel culture.” 2019, Tayo Rockson, Use Your Difference to Make a Difference:
    • An unfair journalistic hit has now cost a capable attorney his job. It’s absurd. Cancel culture has reared its ugly head ... again. 2019 September 3, David French, “Here’s One Way to Stop Cancel Culture — Stop Canceling”, in National Review:
    • "[…] Many students have adopted the posture of cancel culture, preventing people they don’t agree with from speaking,” Mr. Finkielkraut told me last month. 2020 February 6, Mattia Ferraresi, “Cancel Culture Comes to France”, in Wall Street Journal:
    • In a statement condemning “cancel culture,” Stewart warned taking down the monument would set a bad precedent. 2020 December 17, Don Stacom, “Condemning ‘cancel culture,’ New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart vetoes council vote to remove city’s Columbus statue”, in Hartford Courant, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2024:
    • With roots in Black Twitter, cancel culture is an unavoidable mainstay of our infotainment age. In an era of too much everything—TV, opinions, news—we’ve come to rely on a vocabulary of consolidation: likes, tweets, emoji. Cancel culture is one of these argots—a governor, a self-regulatory device I have come to wield with pride (if infrequent recklessness). In the collective, the gesture is absolute: we can’t. We’re done. And so we asphyxiate support from a notable cause or figure. Roseanne Barr referred to Valerie Jarrett as an ape? Cancelled. Harvey Weinstein was outed as a sexual predator? Cancelled. 2018 October 5, Jason Parham, “The Devolution of Kanye West and the Case for Cancel Culture”, in Wired:

Relateds

secondary boycott · cancel · harassment · deplatform · callout culture · no-platform · soft-cancel

Translations (41)

hu kiakolbólítás (cultural phenomenon) · yue 取消文化 (cultural phenomenon) · id budaya pembatalan (cultural phenomenon) · sv utfrysningskultur (cultural phenomenon) · es cultura de la cancelación (cultural phenomenon) · ru культура отмены (cultural phenomenon) · eo bojkot-kulturo (cultural phenomenon) · tr linç kültürü (cultural phenomenon) · af afskafkultuur (cultural phenomenon) · ja キャンセルカルチャー (cultural phenomenon) · hu kiközösítés (cultural phenomenon) · la damnatio memoriae (cultural phenomenon) · fi maalittamiskulttuuri (cultural phenomenon) · ka ქენსელ-კულტურა (cultural phenomenon) · it cultura del boicottaggio (cultural phenomenon) · sv kränkthetskultur (cultural phenomenon) · he תרבות הביטול (cultural phenomenon) · sv cancelkultur (cultural phenomenon) · fr culture de l'annulation (cultural phenomenon) · af kanselleerkultuur (cultural phenomenon) · ka გაუქმების კულტურა (cultural phenomenon) · ms budaya pembatalan (cultural phenomenon) · sh kultura otkazivanja (cultural phenomenon) · az ləğv mədəniyyəti (cultural phenomenon) · cmn 取消文化 (cultural phenomenon) · az imtina mədəniyyəti (cultural phenomenon) · fr cancel culture (cultural phenomenon) · mk култура на изопштување (cultural phenomenon) · is slaufunarmenning (cultural phenomenon) · hu eltörléskultúra (cultural phenomenon) · ko 취소문화 (cultural phenomenon) · hu bojkottkultúra (cultural phenomenon) · pt cultura do cancelamento (cultural phenomenon) · hu kitagadás (cultural phenomenon) · it cancel culture (cultural phenomenon) · de Cancel Culture (cultural phenomenon) · sv utraderingskultur (cultural phenomenon) · he תרבות ביטול (cultural phenomenon) · fi cancel-kulttuuri (cultural phenomenon) · it cultura della cancellazione (cultural phenomenon) · nl cancelcultuur (cultural phenomenon)