Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more.
It’s time to think this through.
“Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society.
The infamous "Harper’s Letter,” signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division.
Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers,
often with the help of social media, call outs are seen by some as having gone too far.
But what is “too far” when you’re talking about imbalances of power and patterns of harm? And what happens when people in social justice movements direct their righteous anger inward at one another?
In We Will Not Cancel Us, movement mediator Ad