tw: moral scrupulosity; cancel culture I’m interested to hear about your opinions with cancel culture. During my early teens, I got pretty radicalised over the internet which really determined my political compass. I was obsessed with cancel culture, making sure I wasn’t following someone that was problematic in some sort. I thought by following cancel culture, it would help us as a society move to be more accountable and progressive. I realised how toxic cancel culture was later on, and even though I’m a minority and a leftist, and have spread awareness, signed petitions, donated, gone to protests, studied politics - I obsess over my actions as a child that may have been problematic. My therapist asked me a question, on how are we as a society, have evolved to think in this morally-inclined way? I told him, “maybe we’re more progressive as a society now?” He said no, so I replied with, “maybe we’ve evolved to have an increased response to flight-or-fight responses?” And he agreed. Which is technically true, especially living with OCD, we are so hyper vigilant. I always found it difficult, especially as being gen z, on how to distinguish rights and wrongs in the eyes of cancel culture, despite being a changed and much more educated person. I am totally against bigotry and not trying to normalise it, but I have seen some instances in cancel culture where I have no idea how it came to be an issue in the first place (for example, I remember a couple of months ago, a plus-sized celebrity was shamed for being fatphobic cause she had a smoothie), and that people should divert their energies into much more urgent situations. How is everyone else trying to navigate morals and cancel culture? What is your opinions of it?