Meditations and Learnings

Meditations and Learnings

Cancel Culture Checklist

1: Punitiveness
- Denunciation to employer
- Blacklisting
- Intention to jeopardise livelihood and socially isolate

2: Deplatforming
- Prevention from publishing work, giving speeches, or attending meetings
- Claims that what you have to say is violent or dangerous

3: Organisation
- The criticism is organised and targeted
- People are being encouraged to join in criticising you
- Investigation into your history for the purpose of acquiring ammunition

4: Secondary Boycotts
- People discouraged from supporting you
- Employers and colleagues encouraged to disassociate from you

5: Moral Grandstanding
- Ad hominem, repetitive, ritualistic, posturing, accusatory, outraged discourse
- Demonisation and focus on you rather than the beliefs / facts

6: Truthiness
- Wilful misinterpretation
- Inaccurate portrayal of you / your words / your beliefs
- False accusations

Summarised from this article by Jonathan Rauch.