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CANCEL CULTURE & social media - Coggle Diagram
CANCEL CULTURE & social media
Ben eidelson talks about the etiquette of equality, where what one person might find to be moral etiquette could be considered offensive to other individuals.
Respect inflation - where the bare requirement for respect increases increasing the opportunities for more people to feel offended
Etiquetee politness - relies on simple forms of etiquette as well as being understood.Etiquette of equality - relies on social stuff, depends on discourse and it depends on who is around
Respect inflation is something that describes a a change in a person. In other words as people realise words are disrespectful, it can create a form of disrespect.
reductio - to criticise an argument by showing how absurd it actually is.
Plato argued that humans are featherless animals with two legs, yet Diogenes had brought a featherless chicken to prove him wrong.
An article called "Is it right to jail someone for being offensive on Facebook/Twitter" talks about the scenario where Anne Maguire was stabbed to death by her student. however a student named Jake argued the teacher had deserved to be stabbed thus leading to his arres
However there were mixed reactions, as some were disgusted by how someone could just get arrested over bad arguments
However, some people believed the man should not get jailed as he had displayed a sense of verbal abuse to the victim who was the stabbed teacher.
JK Rowling, singer Winston Marshall, radio presenter Danny Baker and actors Mark Wahlberg and Mel GiIbson.
Harpers magazine published joint letters from a diverse range of 153 prominent writers, such as Salmon rushidie and MARGARET ATWOOD, which was concerned with the lack fo free exchange of information and ideas.
Individuals who are unable to understand the messages as a form of harm, could mean that people are less likely to communicate to one another.
It forms a sense of offense that may not be entirely real and make people paranoid on who is out to get them.
Taylor Swift, who in 2019 told Vogue - when you say someone is canceled, it is not a TV show. It is a human being. You're sending a mass amounts of messaging to this person to shut up or disappear or kill themselves.
Public shaming and moral panic can be considered as society itself. Socrate has been famously condemned to death for moral corruption of Athenian youth.
There can be cases where comments can be so offensive, that there is no argument on whether or not it is offensive.However there is still rooms of discussion on how to handle these emotions.
To tackle the ambiguity of offense, we must understand certain arguments, such as how harm is not correlated to offense. John sStuart mill, argued that offense is no where near a form of harm. In other words, things are only considered offensive when it causes a state of mind that is uncomfortable to us.
When someone offends us at a moral level, it can be considered harmful. For instance an American nazi party applied for a permit to parade through Stroke Illinois , where Jewish residents had resided.
Our tolerance for certain types of material that offend has increased.
Individuals are often times trying to avoid voicing any act of offense to avoid desentisization.
In other words whilst some people can tell someone not to be offended should also be something that can be communicated to others
Students feels pressures to confor that found 80% of colelge students say they have self censored their own beliefs.
Etiquette
We want a " recognized social currency which symbolically operates with thoughtfulness as well as alleviating strain.
For instance if you were to be invited to a culture where individuals had to wear white clothes, it would be respectful to wear that uniform out of respect for the culture. As it could be considered offensive when you wear your own black clothes to the funeral
SLugs once said that "racists don't use slurs because they're derogative, but slurs are derogative because they are the words that racists use.
When white people wear clothes such as Cheongsan, people of Chinese heritage may get offended by the lack of consideration for the culture.
In community, Brita is a character who is offended wihtout reasons.
In some cases there can be a case of offense as one aspect of a subject can be correlated to something that is considered abhorrent
Twitter and tik tok care more about calling someone out, rather than actually thinking about the outcomes
In other words the work needed to take care of those who is offended.
Yet the idea of etiquette norms are a significant test of the speakers attitudes.
The teacher tries to convince students with diverse views that they are interacting in the world with a discursive subject, and that even unpopular ideas are met with respect.
Many commentators argue that cancel culture is not an issue for freedom of speech, as avoiding arguments of cancel culture can lead to harmful opinions being spread around. If you dont hold other people accountable they will spread harmful ideas.
Many will agree that cancel culture can be harmful, however others argue that it is a good act of holding others accountable.
Public shaming and moral panic are seen through practiced ostracism, where indiviudals destabilise the state.
A lot of ink has been spilled debating cancel culture - said Fire President of Communications Nico Perrino.
General support for free speech prinicples was widespread. 83% of Americans showed that demcoracy thrives when there is free speech, and more than half said that silencing people's opinions.
Nearly 1/4 surveyed fairly often and very often are afraid to state their their opinions or the fear of losing their of jobs. 18% are afraid to say what they fear of potential consequences.
Over 50% blieved that they supported bheaviours of firing and deplatforming people.