Cancel Culture. Virtue Signaling. Throwing Shade. Three ways of showing disdain.

Cancel Culture. Virtue Signaling. Throwing Shade.

Like you, I’ve heard these terms repeatedly in this past year while we are incarcerated in our protective bubbles. I bristle every time.

Cancel Culture is used instead of acknowledging that people are calling for accountability and consequences. The people who use the term and who coined it want to dismiss the demands for justice and reparative behavior. “Cancel Culture” is called when a statue glorifying the confederacy…