Persuasive Speech - Cancel Culture

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  1. what exactly does cancel quote to mean?
  2. According to the urban dictionary, the meaning of cancer culture.
  3. Is this a modern internet phenomenon where a person is
  4. ejected from influence or fame by questionable actions?
  5. It is caused by a critical mass of people who
  6. work with the judge and slow to question.
  7. It is commonly caused by an accusation whether that accusation
  8. has merit or not.
  9. It is a it is a direct result of the
  10. ignorance of people caused by communication technologies.
  11. Outpacing the growth and available knowledge of a person.
  12. So how long has the cancel culture been around?
  13. I only really heard about it come to terms in
  14. 2019 and 2000, but really it's been around way longer
  15. than that.
  16. According to resisting cancel culture by Nadine Strossen forward by
  17. Jonathan. Rouch.
  18. Jonathan writes this cancel culture as it has recently come
  19. to be known maybe a new dinner table topic, but
  20. it is not a new phenomenon anything but Past.
  21. Rawson points out J.
  22. S. Mill warned against it empathetically in his classic 1859
  23. defensive free speech on Liberty.
  24. A generation earlier lex system.
  25. I'm going to butcher his last name but took way
  26. they'll the greatest observer of democracy in America warned of
  27. exactly the same danger before the term cancel culture came
  28. along. I called it core cursive conformity and growth.
  29. So what does coercive conformity mean?
  30. It means using force to persuade people to do things
  31. that they are unwilling to do.
  32. And that definition was found by the Cambridge dictionary.
  33. Some people call cancel culture criticism.
  34. But as Jonathan Rauch says, criticism uses rational non coercive
  35. persuasion to influence public opinion and uncover truth.
  36. It is inherently friendly to viewpoint diversity.
  37. And intellectual pluralism cancel culture, organizes or manipulates the social
  38. or media environment to isolate intimidates d platform or demoralize
  39. political or social adversaries.
  40. It is inherently hostile to viewpoint diversity and intellectual pluralism
  41. from what I have observed from the cancer culture is
  42. people are quick to judge.
  43. They think that from what I've seen is that people
  44. find an old tweet from years and years ago that
  45. when that person tweeted, it was young and immature and
  46. before we go ahead and cancel them, we need to
  47. see if they've changed for the better.
  48. If they haven't, we can go up to them kindly
  49. D. M.
  50. Or P.
  51. M. On social media and say, hey, what you said
  52. was wrong and you're still doing it.
  53. We live in a place where we really should not
  54. be saying that.
  55. Did you really think about what you were saying?
  56. And maybe maybe it won't work.
  57. Maybe it will help and maybe it won't, we don't
  58. know, they may be coming across his being more kind
  59. and instead of yelling and assuming they really think and
  60. change for the better.
  61. Even the celebrity put it well with his newest song
  62. afraid to say by Justin Bieber I'm afraid to say
  63. the wrong thing, criticized from every angle and I'm afraid
  64. to say it on the line to lay it on
  65. the line and selfishly I want to hold back, do
  66. we got room to make mistakes?
  67. Are we judged for everything we say, I want to
  68. grow but I'm afraid will it always be the same?
  69. Does what I got to say even matter is life
  70. about climbing up the ladder and can we even see
  71. lives that are shattered because I'm really trying to silence
  72. the chatter, what have we done with society and everybody's
  73. getting canceled and can there be room for maturity because
  74. writing them off is not the answer now, this brings
  75. me to the mental health side of things.
  76. Okay, you may be thinking, what does mental health have
  77. to do with this?
  78. Mhm As jennifer to Zuma's put it from creative solutions,
  79. behavioral health, it leaves no real room for tolerance or
  80. forgiveness of anything contrary to their position or their opinion
  81. cancel. Does not allow you to you or others to
  82. learn and grow from past mistakes or insensitive insensitivities.
  83. Conversely, the need to please an invisible mass evoke others
  84. actually keeps you in fear of being judged, facing rejection,
  85. getting ostracized sized, making personally beneficial decisions.
  86. I believe canceling culture can turn into bullying and that
  87. can and I quote, make you feel ostracized as I
  88. stated above, socially isolated and lonely.
  89. And research shows that loneliness is associated with high anxiety,
  90. depression and suicide rates has Lindsay toler put it, we
  91. obviously want to be aware of what is going on
  92. in society and be kind in our words, but we
  93. also should not be afraid to speak up and stand
  94. for our beliefs.
  95. It's a fine line we all need to work towards.
  96. Before I head into my conclusion, I wanted to show
  97. you guys this graphic that I saw.
  98. This is obviously a fictional person, but many times I
  99. have seen these type of tweets on twitter, canceling someone
  100. with the hashtag of hashtag love of LA is over
  101. party. If you really look at these tweets there are
  102. very, very rude and unkind and like I said above,
  103. it can lead to high anxiety, depression and suicide rates
  104. because words can really affect people.
  105. You really need to be careful with what you say,
  106. I don't know where you stand with all of this
  107. and that I have discussed, I don't know where you
  108. stand with all that I have discussed, but I just
  109. want to end with this.
  110. We live in a free country where we are able
  111. to freely say what we want within reason.
  112. Obviously I have many friends that have different thoughts or
  113. opinions and so we agree to disagree, but I'm still
  114. friends with them.
  115. What their belief or opinion is does not change my
  116. view on them.
  117. We just need more kindness in our world.
  118. And I believe the cancel culture does not help with
  119. this and it just causes more division and believe me,
  120. we do not need more of that.
  121. So please let's be less judgmental and more kind.
  122. Thank you.