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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PsyzhranV2" data-source="post: 8321263" data-attributes="member: 7015332">"Cancellation" in its original sense means to hold somebody accountable for their words and actions, to withdraw support until they shape up, and to deplatform them if they have a public platform so as to reduce the harm they are causing. Such accountability and consequences have been incredibly rare; most famous and influential people who get """canceled""" only experience the criticism leveled at them as a minor inconvenience. Once everybody forgets about it, usually what happens is that the person in question goes back to their life, none the worse for wear, and usually without correcting correct the behaviour that caused them to get """canceled""" in the first place.Also "canceling" and "cancel culture" is yet another example of a slang term from AAVE being adopted into mainstream English and being heavily distorted in the process. Now White nationalists are screaming it every time one of their idols gets even so much as a breeze being blown back at them and then proceeding to cry about how the "wokes" are ruining everything. Which, by the way, was also originally an AAVE term for being aware of systemic discrimination and how it works, until the far-right got their hands on it and ruined that too.</blockquote>