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Cancel culture boils down to Jean-Paul Sartre's formula that hell is other people ... "
Kevin Spacey

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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Cancel culture is a phrase contemporary to the late 2010s and early 2020s used to refer to a cultural phenomenon in which some who are deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner are ostracized, boycotted, or shunned.

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Cancel culture - Wikipedia
Cancel culture is a phrase contemporary to the late 2010s and early 2020s used to refer to a cultural phenomenon in which some who are deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner are ostracized, boycotted, or shunned. This shunning may extend to social or professional circles—whether on social media or in person—with most high-profile incidents involving celebrities. Those subject to this ostracism are said to have been "canceled".

The term "cancel culture" came into circulation in the late 2010s and early 2020s and has mostly negative connotations. The term "call-out culture" is used by some as more positive verbiage for the same concept.

Some critics argue that cancel culture has a chilling effect on public discourse, is unproductive, does not bring real social change, causes intolerance, and amounts to cyberbullying. Some proponents argue that calls for "cancellation" promote accountability, give disenfranchised people a voice, and are a form of free speech. Still others question whether cancel culture is an actual phenomenon, arguing that similar forms of boycotting have existed long before the origin of the term "cancel culture."

While the careers of some public figures have been impacted by boycotts that have been widely described as "cancellation", others who have complained of cancellation have successfully continued their careers.

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persona non grata

NOUN
an unacceptable or unwelcome person. Compare with persona grata.
"he was persona non grata with the regime"
Similar:
reject
pariah
leper
untouchable
foundling
waif
stray
exile
refugee
outsider
outlaw

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ostracize
VERB
ostracized (past tense);·;ostracized (past participle)
exclude (someone) from a society or group:
"a group of people who have been ridiculed, ostracized, and persecuted for centuries"
Similar:
exclude
shun
spurn

(in ancient Greece) banish (an unpopular or too powerful citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote.
Similar:
banish
exile
deport
evict

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CULTURE
How 'cancel culture' quickly became one of the buzziest and most controversial ideas on the internet
Analysis by Rachel E. Greenspan Aug 6, 2020,

origins of cancel culture 2x1
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"Cancel culture," or the idea that people too often pile onto others for bad behavior, emerged only in the past few years but has become a ubiquitous phrase among English speakers.

President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump have both criticized a culture of relentlessly calling people out for alleged wrongdoing. In an address at Mount Rushmore last month, Trump said it was "the very definition of totalitarianism."
As social-media users decry cancel culture and poke fun at the criticism itself, the phrase has come to describe a wide variety of behaviors and their consequences.

In a congressional antitrust hearing on July 29, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio had a specific question for Apple CEO Tim Cook.

"Mr. Cook," Jordan said, "is the 'cancel culture' mob dangerous?"

"Cancel culture," which President Donald Trump last month called "the very definition of totalitarianism," describes the phenomenon of frequent public pile-ons criticizing a person, business, movement, or idea.

The phrase — a surprisingly recent creation — has become ubiquitous in pop culture and reached the highest halls of power, used to describe "cancellations" large and small.

On one end of the spectrum are people like Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and R. Kelly who were canceled by the public before their sex-crimes trials. On the other end are everyday people like David Shor, who faced criticism on Twitter after he tweeted a study from an academic journal questioning the political consequences of violent and peaceful protests. Shor, who tweeted the link during the George Floyd protests, was fired, though the company has said it wasn't over the tweet.

Despite the seemingly positive intentions of many cancellations — to "demand greater accountability from public figures," as Merriam-Webster's evaluation of the phrase notes — people tend to call out cancel culture itself as a negative movement, suggesting that the consequences of cancellation are too harsh in minor instances or represent rushed judgment in complicated situations.

Others have criticized that criticism, saying cancel culture doesn't exist.

With the varied usage and wide debate around the term, it's reasonable to ask where it came from and how it became a part of everyday speech.

The phrase was popularized only in the past few years. Now it's everywhere.
"Cancel culture" came into the collective consciousness around 2017, after the idea of "canceling" celebrities for problematic actions or statements became popular.

Lisa Nakamura, a professor at the University of Michigan who studies digital media's connections to race, gender, and sexuality, told The New York Times in 2018 that cancellation was a "cultural boycott" of a certain celebrity, brand, company, or concept.

Merriam-Webster, the American publisher of dictionaries and thesauruses, connected cancel culture with the #MeToo movement, which coincided with the rise of the term's popularity online. New allegations seemed to come out daily, and attitudes quickly shifted against the accused.

The trend of calling someone out laid the groundwork for full-on cancellations. It has roots in early-2010s Tumblr blogs, notably Your Fave Is Problematic, where fandoms would discuss why their favorite stars were imperfect, Aja Romano reported for Vox in 2019.

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No Exit is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play was first performed at the Theatre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944. The play begins with three characters who find themselves waiting in a mysterious room. It is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous phrase "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object from the view of another consciousness. English translations have also been performed under the titles In Camera, No Way Out, Vicious Circle, Behind Closed Doors, and Dead End. The original title, Huis clos ("closed door"), is the French equivalent of the legal term in camera (Latin: "in a chamber"), referring to a private discussion behind closed doors.

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Kevin Spacey


Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Spacey was named an honorary Commander and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2010 and 2015, respectively.
In 2017, Spacey faced several allegations of sexual misconduct. In the wake of these claims, Netflix cut ties with Spacey, shelving his biopic of Gore Vidal and removing him from the last season of House of Cards. His completed role as J. Paul Getty in Ridley Scott's film All the Money in the World (2017) was reshot with Christopher Plummer. Spacey has denied the accusations and was found not liable in a 2022 lawsuit in New York. In a separate case in London, he was acquitted by a jury of sexual assault charges in 2023.