cancel culture basics
This term describes the system of removing support from individuals or entities for perceived wrongdoings.
What is cancel culture?
Which social media platform is notorious for its role in facilitating cancel culture, allowing users to voice their concerns publicly?
What is Twitter?
Critics argue that cancel culture may lead to an erosion of this essential democratic principle, which involves open discourse.
What is freedom of speech?
This famous comedian faced backlash and was canceled after making controversial comments about transgender individuals in a 2019 Netflix special.
Who is Dave Chappelle?
Why did Amy Cooper get cancelled?
She said a black man was attacking her in the park when he was not.
Cancel culture often involves calling out and condemning behavior on this type of platform.
What is social media?
What is the term for the act of "canceling" someone by disengaging from them on social media?
What is unfriending, unfollowing, or blocking?
List THREE possible consequences of getting canceled?
Losing one's job, losing, endorsements, losing fans/followers/popularity, mental health impacts
Conservatives complained that this children's author was canceled, when in reality, their estate made a decision to remove a few titles from publication due to racist and insensitive imagery.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
How long is Will Smith banned from the Academy Awards for slapping Chris Rock?
10 years
This term is used to describe the practice of removing books or other academic materials from educational curricula due to concerns about their content or themes.
What is "book banning" or "curriculum censorship"?
Cancel culture has historical roots in social justice movements, but it gained prominence in the 2010s. In what movement did women call out their abusers?
What is #MeToo?
Individuals who have gone through the process of redemption in cancel culture discussions to regain popularity are sometimes referred to as making a ___?
What is a "comeback"?
This rapper was cancelled in 2021 after making a series of homophobic statements while on stage at a music festival, including he false and insulting comments about gay men and HIV, and also spoke crudely about women.
Who is DaBaby?
Why have people attempted to cancel JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter?
She is TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) or anti-trans women.
What is the primary goal of cancel culture, as stated by its proponents/supporters?
What is seeking accountability and social change?
People may use social media to call out "everyday, thinly veiled instances of racism, homophobia, sexism and other biases" otherwise known as this.
What are microaggressions?
This psychological term relates to a person's efforts to change their behavior and beliefs after being canceled.
What is "personal growth" or "self-improvement"?
This Marvel star seems to be one of those celebrities who is constantly cancelled for various reasons, including racist and homophobic jokes, and his attendance at an anti-LGBT church.
Who is Chris Pratt?
James Gunn was the director of this series of movies, banned for inappropriate tweets about molestation, sexual assault, HIV, and other topics.
Guardians of the Galaxy