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The Politics of Respectful Language
When it comes to the definition of cancel culture, just like with political correctness, we want to separate the toxic dominance ideas from the positive egaltarian ideas. For using respectful language, not only does this separate opposing ideas, but it's a political winner for respectful language. And on the one hand, they are as publicly berating a wealthy and powerful, financially secure public figure who has a huge platform when they say something or do something awful. On the other hand, there’s publicly humiliating a regular person who may or may not have done or said something bad - whose actions have almost no impact on the world. So i think we can give another shot at defining cancil culture