Could we say that Jesus Christ, the son of God would have reportedly been the first Christian victim of global cancel culture?
When slavery was abolished it was replaced by discrimination. Today, it can sometimes feel as though we are living through uniquely difficult times. Wars, disease, economic upheavals, and political strife dominate news headlines. Traditions, once the terra firma of our lives, have split along cultural fault lines and are shifting widely. And the lessons imparted to us by our parents seem completely out of touch with the challenges we face daily.
Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
We are not special in this regard, though. Our modern circumstances may be idiomatic — Plato worried over the harms of pervasive poetry; not social media would have thrown him for a loop — but strife and struggle have been universals of human history. Every generation has had to endure both to various degrees.
Also known as call-out culture, it is the practice of ostracizing, boycotting, or shunning people deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner.
Cancel Culture can be seen as a call for accountability, while others see censorship as severe Punishment. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/05/19/americans-and-cancel-cu…
Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture
Is cancel culture a mob mentality, or a long overdue way of speaking truth to power?
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/30/20879720/what-is-cancel-culture-…
Why are colleges offering up more DEI degrees? Demand for diversity expertise is growing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/02/06/dei-diversity-…