The term cancel culture refers to a specific type of mob mentality, where people act like fucking zealots of the One True Faith, demanding any heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed or heresy by association are punished, and anyone speaking against the One True Faith are themselves suspect of heresy.
Its
super fucking shitty behaviour.Noone actually gives a fucking shit if someone chooses to not partake of someones work any more because they find that person problematic, for whatever reason.
Thats not whats fucking happening.
These people are actively attempting to incite a mob mentality, and then turning any questioning of their reasons and motivations into a casus belli for the mob to then move against the doubters.
It was super shitty under the Spanish Inquisition.
It was super shitty under Joe MacCarthy.
It's super fucking shitty today.