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I've been thinking about cancel culture lately and how much of a negative impact it has on all of us. Yeah, some people do bad things and there are those that remain terrible people but what about those that truly reflect on their actions and are able to better themselves? Assuming someone is guilty of whatever they're accused of, they are like all humans capable of learning from mistakes they made and this does include online personalities and any kind of celebrity. It's entirely possible that after some backlash and time off, they could become better people. In fact, people going to prison and being let back out into society and reforming is an actual thing that happens. People can be better even when they did a thing they shouldn't have done.
That applies to any one of us. How would you feel if you had accusations hurled against you, whether true or false and your replies were full of nothing but clown memes and hatred for you? It wouldn't be fun, would it? When it comes to drama involving different people, rather than jumping on a bandwagon, get some fucking info first. You should never blindly believe what others say. Educate yourself before you make your judgments. Next of all, when it comes to controversy involving different people that aren't you, just remember, they aren't you and their problems technically aren't your business. Relationship issues should only be discussed with the parties involved and not leaked for a ton of random strangers on the internet, because it doesn't involve them. It involves those having issues with their relationship. I very strongly take issue with people calling out others online, especially when it comes to illegal or at least questionable things, because these people usually just go to the internet BEFORE ever talking to the police or anything and that's really fucking disgusting. Moving on, when all this drama goes on, all kinds of different accusations and evidence for or against will be tossed around the web. You can make your own decision on whether it's credible or not. Worst of all, some of what we have to go by or what people say and not legit actual proof, so in those cases, who can you trust? If someone's claiming to be a victim and someone else is accused of doing something to them and all you have are words, that doesn't really mean anything. You aren't them. You don't know them. You don't know what's going on in their lives. You can't make a true and honest judgment in these circumstances. One of the biggest problems I have with cancel culture is people will believe pretty much anything even when they can't actually verify it. When you can't actually verify, you obviously don't know the whole truth. On one hand, it can lead to a false accusation, which can and does happen and this can be due to certain circumstances, which unfortunately includes the genders of the parties involved. In some cases, one person is more likely to be believed than the other person wrapped up in the situation. We can't blindly believe in someone's innocence either. I know most sane people wouldn't be happy to find out they defended a criminal, or a "monster" as the internet would most likely paint them. What's worse is cancel culture damages the reputations of the parties involved. Both the accused and those claiming to be victims of any of these situations. People lose respect for both because some believe an "innocent person was falsely accused by a horrible person" or someone turned out to be "a terrible person". In the end, cancel culture is bad for all of us with it having us pointing fingers and losing respect for those we once respected or in some cases having a bad first impression of them. Even when they're in the wrong, though, they can improve themselves. It's bullshit that none of us are willing to give people a second chance, not even after shit cools down. It would be nice if when stuff like this happened, people could learn and move on and in some cases, even forgive. All cancel culture does is ruin people's lives, whether they're guilty or innocent. And this all shows just how bad people in this world have gotten. Instead of posting clown memes or whatever, take some time to calmly take information in and then judge, but most of all, learn when to move the fuck on. It really pisses me off when you're still obsessing over some dumb shit a celebrity or online personality did or said ages ago. As I say this, there are ongoing controversies and they're certainly not going to be the last. However, what I'm saying is we really need to change how we react to these situations.
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