Cancel culture- the biggest flaw of our generation

Now I'm not going to pretend I havent been on the bandwagon for some of these cancellings of people but at the time I never really pondered the overall impact fostering a culture like this could have on society. It seems like every day there's a new person being dragged all across timeline with thousands of previous fans now vowing to never support their work again. On the one hand some of these people have done horrible things, such as people who have perpetrated sexual assault or have been discriminatory towards people. The cancelling of people such as this doesn't bother me as there work doesn't deserve to be supported.

However increasingly there seems to be the resurfacing of old tweets that shows some celebrities saying offensive things. Often times this was years ago and they claim to have grown since then and no longer share these views. I'm sure that a lot of the ignorant things we thought when we were younger we no longer think now and we can all recognise that we evolve and grow as we get older, but to what extent can we use this as an excuse for their behaviour.






One of the biggest shifts I have noticed is that we now live in a world where we are guilty until proven innocence and not innocence until proven guilty. In some cases even after we have been found innocence the damage has already been done and you are still seen as guilty in the court of public opinion.