❌ Cancel culture has become an invariable component of the modern political agenda.
It is primarily an American phenomenon and grounded in American technology.
However, even in the United States itself, there are at least two significant interpretations of this concept.
🔺 On the one hand, cancel culture is positioned as a tool for protecting the most vulnerable social groups. The mechanism of cancel culture in this case is clear: potential victims are protected from possible aggression in the public space due to the preventive elimination of potential aggressors from this space – those who do not adhere to the ‘correct’ discourse. The correctness of the discourse is determined by certain general standards set by the left-liberal agenda.
🔻 On the other hand, many in the US interpret cancel culture as a tool for censoring and “modernising” the political and social space. This, they claim, primarily works to the detriment of conservative values. For example, there are known cases where the digital mechanisms of cancel culture have been used to target Donald Trump's supporters.
What was only yesterday a regional phenomenon has spread now to more and more parts of the world, and is being used as an instrument of pressure in the international arena, writes Valdai Club expert Daniil Parenkov.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/cancel-and-conquer-cancel-culture-in-world-politic/
#ModernDiplomacy #CancelCulture
@valdai_club
It is primarily an American phenomenon and grounded in American technology.
However, even in the United States itself, there are at least two significant interpretations of this concept.
🔺 On the one hand, cancel culture is positioned as a tool for protecting the most vulnerable social groups. The mechanism of cancel culture in this case is clear: potential victims are protected from possible aggression in the public space due to the preventive elimination of potential aggressors from this space – those who do not adhere to the ‘correct’ discourse. The correctness of the discourse is determined by certain general standards set by the left-liberal agenda.
🔻 On the other hand, many in the US interpret cancel culture as a tool for censoring and “modernising” the political and social space. This, they claim, primarily works to the detriment of conservative values. For example, there are known cases where the digital mechanisms of cancel culture have been used to target Donald Trump's supporters.
What was only yesterday a regional phenomenon has spread now to more and more parts of the world, and is being used as an instrument of pressure in the international arena, writes Valdai Club expert Daniil Parenkov.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/cancel-and-conquer-cancel-culture-in-world-politic/
#ModernDiplomacy #CancelCulture
@valdai_club
Valdai Club
Cancel and Conquer? Cancel Culture in World Politics
Cancel culture has become an invariable component of the modern political agenda. What was only yesterday a regional phenomenon has spread to more and more parts of the world, and is being used as an instrument of pressure in the international arena.