Extreme Bullying Disguised as Social Justice

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Cancel culture started out with people calling out public figures, celebrities, and big companies for wrongdoing. It began gaining traction on Twitter and it was intended to call out offensive behavior and teach big-wigs a lesson anytime they made a racist or homophobic remark. However, it is now used as an excuse to cyber-bully and dox anyone for anything- anyone, including private citizens.

All that needs to happen is for someone either not to like or hate someone. Or maybe someone stands up to “the wrong person.” Maybe a person says something that someone else does not like or is taken the wrong way. Or maybe someone wears the wrong color T shirt.

Maybe the wrong person finds an old photograph from way back in 1983- a photograph of the person they hate dressed as Michael Jackson on Halloween. Whatever the perceived infraction, the target risks being cancelled, doxed, and having their lives ruined. This is indeed a dangerous world we live in today.

When cancel culture first got started in 2017 with the advent of trending hashtags, it was focused on calling out a person committing an infraction, even if they never meant to. All it took to get back into the good graces of the public was to issue a public apology and do better not to get out of line again. Once you made your apology, all was well, and you can get on with your life. But not so anymore.

Now, cancel culture is focused on destroying the lives of the person on the receiving end and a public apology no longer suffices. It’s a shame that human beings can no longer make mistakes without others ruining their lives over it.

Now, the cancel culture crowd cancels people in hopes that they can drive their targets to commit suicide. To me, that’s an indirect form of attempted murder.

Granted, some deserve to have their lives ruined- those who are pedophiles and those who promote child porn and human trafficking. But it seems awful strange that people who are known pedos and who promote such unspeakable things are never the ones who get cancelled. Now how is that? And, more importantly, why? I wonder.

Just a few days ago, I listened to a YouTube video of Stefan Molyneux. In the video, he stated that cancel culture was a dress rehearsal for mass murder. Up until I heard him speak, I never thought about it, but he certainly has a point.

His talk made me think back to when I studied history in school, and it brought back some of the lessons in that class. Yes, cancel culture did exist back in the early 20th century, only it had different names. It will only escalate if it isn’t stopped.

What happens when society gets bored with today’s cancel culture and decides that not even destroying someone’s life is enough and that they should start trying to kill them or have them killed?

Any type of bullying, including cancel culture, only escalates if it’s left unchecked. Cancel culture has happened down through history. Just do your research on Hitler’s Nazi Germany, Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, and the former Soviet Union. They are proof that cancel culture is a precedent to mass murder. We know that the last escalation point of bullying is always murder if the person doesn’t commit suicide first.

So, how bad does it have to get before people wake up and realize that they’ve only opened a Pandora’s box?

And when will people start cancelling those who deserve it- pedophiles and others who promote child porn and human trafficking?

As to why they don’t cancel them, could it be because of who a lot of the customers are? That some of the customers are some very popular and powerful people?

It sure makes you wonder why the very people who need to be cancelled are the ones who escape it.

I’ll leave you to ponder the questions in the post because they’re very important questions. Although critical thinking and asking questions are strongly discouraged today, it’s what’s needed in order to heal our world.

0 thoughts on “Extreme Bullying Disguised as Social Justice

  1. rebecca s revels says:

    I agree, it is a madness quickly growing out of control that has to be reigned in. A mistake is one thing, a deliberate act another. The importance is in the discerning of which is which and moving appropriately.

  2. jarilissima says:

    From what I have seen, there’s been a few YouTubers that Twitter tried to “cancel” (not for any strong reasons, but for disliking a movie or video game) and these YouTubers DO get people showing up at their homes. Or worse, they get “swatted.” So, it’s not that big of a leap to think that cancel culture wants to *literally* cancel people.

    The reasons why YouTubers don’t speak up more about it is because they say it actually encourages more people to show up at their house, which is scary.

    I honestly very much dislike the way modern American culture is going, and most of my fun spending money is going to foreign media.

    • cheriewhite says:

      You said a mouth full there! And I totally agree! People showing up at your house is the scariest! That’s why I believe people should have a way to defend themselves should the cancel culture crowd show up on your doorstep. And YouTube has no respect for differences of opinion anymore- and you know it’s gotten bad when people get angry for something as minor as disliking a movie. Wow! Talk about a butthurt bunch of people in this country these days. Being bullied is one thing and you should get angry over that. But another people not liking the same movie (rock group, celebrity, etc.) as you? That’s not something people should get angry over. I’ve never seen people as wimpy as some of these on Twitter. My Lord, we are becoming a nation (or world, rather) of mental patients! It’s scary!

  3. Herb says:

    All good points. Cancelling Pedophiles and such is a good idea I wonder, as you said, who it would ultimately effect? Also, I can see some extremists from some far corners of the left saying it’s an alternative lifestyle.

    • cheriewhite says:

      Oh, my goodness, Herb! Your last sentence in your comment! YES! I’ve seen that too and I even saw a video on Facebook of a girl speaking at a university- a UNIVERSITY! Stating that pedophilia is only “natural love” and “we shouldn’t call it pedophilia.” She also said that we should accept that children and babies are sexual beings! 😮

      I thought, “Are you #$%&@ kidding me?” Needless to say, my blood was boiling! I wanted to reach through my computer screen and punch that girl in the face!

      If there’s one thing that makes me crazy and go completely out of character, it’s when people hurt children.

  4. Ashley (The Ordinary Hippie) says:

    I have been wanting to do a post about cancel culture and your post brought up some great points i hadn’t even considered. While I think we should call out those who are mistreating others, there was always something about the concept of cancel culture that didn’t sit right with me – in many ways it seems like a misinformed path of social justice.

    • cheriewhite says:

      Absolutely, Ashley! This is a post I’d been working on for a long time before I published it. Things like these, although we know the concept of it, are extremely hard to put into understandable words because it’s such a deep subject and requires the writer to go deep and bring out outcomes that most people don’t consider. Thank you so much for your comment. ❤

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