Culture The cancellation has become a step towards totalitarianism in the West. Such an opinion in a conversation with “Ribbon.ru” was expressed by Professor Philosophy from University de Field (Chicago, Illinois) Jason Hill.
According to him, the phenomenon of the culture of cancellation can be divided into two types. The first is the censure of those who deviated from the “new ethics”, which is now imposed as the only right. “Another form of cancellation of culture, which, in my opinion, is even more detrimental, is erasing history. It is a step towards totalitarianism in the West,” said Professor. In an effort to break with the racist past, American activists demolish and defile monuments to confederates and even the founding fathers of the United States.
Culture of cancellation, said Hill, led to the fact that people actually began to judge not in the courthouse, but in the media. “People” cancel “without proper legal procedure, they are deprived of the opportunity to resist the accusations made against them. In other words, the presumption of guilt prevails over the presumption of innocence,” he said.
With the culture of cancellation, the culture of fear is born, told Amanda Kunz in a conversation with “Ribbon.Ru” Amanda Kunz, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of the University of Central Florida. “People are afraid that they will not be able to express their opinion or follow their own values without anyone to come, shuddered them and” canceled “,” she explained.
“It seems to everyone that they have their own truth, and they are not trying to understand what others say and what they believe in. Instead of communicating and exchange views, instead of actually listening to what the interlocutor says People hang on each other labels. And it can cause serious disagreements, “Kuntz added.
Culture Cancellation is a modern form of criticism and punishment of a person or a group of persons by depriving support, condemnation and boycotting both online and in the real world. The reason can be both a controversial or non-procurement statement out loud and text post on the Internet. Often this leads to loss of work, deprivation of previously obtained awards and destruction of the reputation of a person.
The reasons for the traffacent of people whose views contradict the new morality were one of the central themes of the project “Renta.ru” called “The Problems of the First World”. Materials are combined with the theme of the crisis of liberal values in the Western world and split in society. They are talking about how the ideas of freedom and universal equality turn into a tool of oppression, and the struggle for the rights of some groups of people turns into the placelessness of others.