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4 Factors That Make Cancel Culture Ineffective

Justice is rarely achievable when a mob has already decided the verdict and sentence.

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Chris Martin
Aug 10, 2020
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Cancel culture bears the fruit of vengeance more than it bears the fruit of justice. Why? Because in order for justice to be achieved by rallying a mob of angry onlookers on the internet, the cancelee has to have actually committed an act of injustice that needs to be reconciled. Sometimes this is the case, as we saw with the #MeToo movement, and the ca…

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