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- 5y
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 5y
Cancel culture is among the most toxic groups of the decade. It masquerades as social justice but it’s really just a bunch of judgmental bullies who have fun with bringing people down
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I agree 100%. I think cancel culture is just a bunch of emotionally inept bullies that want to bring others down to make themselves feel better BUT my opinion doesn’t mean much when it seems we are living in a climate with a bunch of crazies who love crucifying one another.
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I third on that. Cancel culture has become more self-serving in my opinion. They like to drag others down for their mistakes when they made similar ones or even worse. It’s only effective when you’re calling out a repeated offense (example: so-and-so said something racist 10 years ago but continues to make racist jokes today, even after being called out). At some point, it shook me to the core because I thought that with my mistakes, I could never be forgiven. But the key to it is to realize that everyone makes mistakes, but also try your best to not repeat the same mistake again.
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Agreed
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- 5y
This is so true. Forgiveness is a cornerstone of basic decent humanity. Cultivate forgiveness for yourself and hope that your example can persuade others
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Cancel culture is horribly toxic. It's essentially peoples proclivity to shit on each other amplified thru social media and it destroys lives. One of my ocd themes is real event OCD and cancel culture triggers the shit out of me. It gives so much fuel for that constantly looking over your shoulder anxiety. I feel like I can't progress in life because I've made stupid mistakes in the past
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- 5y
i understand this so much. i made the mistake of emotionally cheating on my boyfriend, and now it has become one of my themes (real event ocd) because of cancel culture. i can never stop thinking about it and i think i’m the worst person in the world because of what i’ve done. it was my first relationship and i did not know how to take it seriously nor did i know how to even be in a relationship, and now that i’ve grown and researched, i realized this and i am a very different person than i was when i was younger. but it hurts knowing that by cancel culture, i could never be forgiven for making that mistake.
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y
This is so saddening to hear, I’m sorry :( yeah , cancel culture is honestly just a radical cult of hateful people who (some of them) aren’t dealing with their own frustrations , so you project them onto others. Mistakes are good sometimes because we can use them as markers for progression and growth , and they show how meaningful our journey has been. It’s also amazing to look back and say you aren’t who you used to be. Who knows , they may be cancelled for harassment in a couple years when the public realizes they were targeting people who grew already ! ??♂️
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@xiiiandreww as much as i hate the mistake i made, i am so grateful for it in the sense that i now know how hurtful what i did could actually be, and how to navigate future relationships which will prevent me from ever doing that again. thank you for your compassion, it was truly something i needed tonight :)
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- 5y
I see your point.
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- Date posted
- 22w
like the title says, i also suffer from cancel culture OCD, even more these last two months in which i have noticed that several people have been deleting me from social media, in fact two days ago i had a spiral as someone recently blocked me. i won't go into it to avoid the compulsion to confess but basically i had issues before with my ex and some of his friends that he himself ended up involving, even though we are on good terms he made sure to make me look like i was the problem and several mutual friends have been detaching themselves from me. the thing is, i see many people say that to fight their cancel culture OCD they delete their social media and then just. disappear. but i don't want to do this - i don't want to hide, i want to stay in the public eye and create things, in fact, i am an artist. but since the last year now i live in constant fear and also somewhat sensitive to what others think of me thanks to the rumors about me and i'm afraid that one day i might be "exposed" or something like that; and i also feel like i'm "pretending" to be a good person all the time. so, with what i already said, how do i deal with this without having to resort to deleting my social media? i think that exposing myself every day and continuing to post things on social medias despite the constant fear and guilt i feel would count as ERP, right? thanks.
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- 22w
i’ve been having this theme pop up recently where if I see people either criticize or be a hater and spread misinformation or seeing old controversies about my current interests/hyper-fixations i find myself having a crazy anxiety attack about if it’s “morally okay” to be interested in my interests anymore. i feel really singled out and like im doing something wrong because im watching a youtuber or listening to a specific musical group. in all of these specific situations the people involved have talked about the situations and have changed accordingly but seeing it makes me feel like i shouldn’t be allowed to like my favorite things. to be clear none of these things are dramatically evil or bad. it’s either misinformation/uneducated people influencing someone opinion and then they learn and change. it just makes me feel like im not allowed to like my favorite things anymore because of people criticizing it??? if that makes sense??? also this is a little off topic but also not really because i’m 99.99% sure im autistic because of MANY things but with this specifically i have very strong interests and i feel very deep feelings about them and any and all criticism or hateful comments towards my favorite things trigger me deeply and make my ocd act up and make me feel uncomfortable and uncertain and anxious and it causes physical discomfort to me. i really don’t know how to calm myself down about this specific theme it’s brand new and makes me feel really anxious. not trying to look for reassurance but does anyone else understand what i mean??? does anyone have any advice on how to not give into the negative comments??? any suggestions on how to ease this specific anxiety???
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- 18w
Does anyone feel like they’re fighting a war inside of them? I’ve slowly opened up to people about my past and things that happened ( I never thought I would ) but at times, I value truth and honesty and wanting to be a good person and this is something I just want to let go of because I’ve suffered with the guilt and shame and regret but my mind keeps on dwelling on it and bringing it back. Like I’m a fraud. This implies to all my mistakes that I’ve learned from. I normally tell my mom things but I don’t want to tell her these things. I love her and don’t want to bring shame upon my family or for this to be brought up over and over again. I did stupid things without logically thinking and I have the best mom ever and she trusted me with things when I was younger. I made mistakes with that trust and it makes me upset. I now feel like I’m ideally the “ideal” kid for my family and I wish to stay like that no matter my age. I’ve been trying to mange with my childhood mistakes. The shame and guilt. I’m trying to be a bit more compassionate but there’s always the thought that scares me, what if I was really evil? I used to hate looking at pictures of myself when I was younger but now when I do, I finally realize what they meant by “you aren’t your worst mistake” because I’ve done good and I’ve also screwed up. But I feel like I’m fighting a war with myself because I value justice and truth and so but I don’t even wanna talk about this or bring it up and my mind keeps targeting it and it’s exhausting.
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