"Cancel culture" is nothing new. It's just starting to negatively impact a lot of people

[Atticus]

who thought they were way too "important" to be cancelled.

It used to be called "shunning". In smaller face-to-face communities---villages, tribes, churches---people understandably did not want to associate with liars, thieves, cheats or bullies. They chose to exclude such miscreants from the benefits of what we would now call "networking". In extreme cases, the offensive person was physically driven away from the community.

Today's version of shunning---"cancel culture"---is just as understandable as it always has been: WHO---with an ounce of decency within them---would want to associate themselves, their business enterprise or their personal reputation---with, for example, a Trump-loving politician or someone who had voluntarily and enthusiastically done Trump's bidding?

Cancel culture? You damn betcha!

[Talitha]

1. K&R

[NCDem47]

2. Nicely framed!

[Lars39]

3. Shunning still goes on today in churches.

I've been on the receiving end twice. Once for daring to go to a different church one Sunday, the other by relatives because I was adamant that I was not going to believe as they do.

[Major Nikon]

4. "Cancel culture" is exactly what libertarians wanted

They have been promising for decades government regulation should be replaced by the free market which will sort out issues through consumer choices. Now that those market influences are finally playing out as they promised they cry like babies about it.

[Ohioboy]

5. The righties had a fit when the Dixie Chicks said something they didn't like

The ones complaining about cancel culture are the ones that do it the most.