“Has cancel culture gone too far?” The question felt impossible to ignore this year. Google it and you'll see pages of op-eds, often concluding, yes, it has gone too far, and the Internet mob is out of control.
Cancel culture became so central to the discourse in 2019 that even President Obama weighed in. The idea is that if you do something that others deem problematic, you automatically lose all your currency. Your voice is silenced. You're done. Those who condemn cancel culture usually imply that it's unfair and indiscriminate.
The problem with this perspective is cancel culture isn't real, at least not in the way people believe it is. Instead, it's turned into a catch-all for when people in power face consequences for their actions or receive any type of criticism, something that they're not used to.
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