The six-coloured flag is just satanic. You know I feel like its just a form of
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Hi everyone, it's me Gwyneth. I'm 23.
Hi, I'm Bruce. 24 years old this year.
Hi, I'm Cheryl. I'm 22 this year.
Hi, I'm Daniel and I'm 17 this year.
Hi everyone, I'm Filment. I'm 22 this year.
Cancel culture is too extreme.
I kind of like disagree that cancel culture is too extreme
because I think it's an important social mechanism
to kind of keep powerful influencers and influential figures
and people in power in check and I think that is the way
for us to hold them accountable
for the things that they say.
To me, I feel like cancel culture has been so
normalized, it's no longer between
people and with people of power.
It could be between anybody.
Anybody can get cancel on social media nowadays
so I feel like it can be very extreme when people
starts pulling out receipts from like old tweets
or start pulling out personal information and then
tweeting like oh this person lives here
this person works here studies here and all that
you know even though there are laws that say you know
doxxing, releasing someone's personal information
is illegal, I feel like it doesn't stop someone
to continue to be so extreme just to push them down
or try to bring this person down because of an opinion
or what they have said.
I think originally the idea of cancel culture was based upon
the check and balance is what you say again
was for like powerful figures, influencers and stuff
but I do feel it's not extreme in a sense that
these influencers have power and with their words,
they actually hurt a lot of other people with the comments they make
because they are able to actually divide people's at such extreme levels.
There are a lot of like social media
activists nowadays
so this cancel culture started because
you are ought to subscribe to this idea that is usually of the majorities
or you know the most justified, the most reasonable
so there's like this 'us' camp which is the right camp
and if you don't join our camp you're asking to be canceled.
I'm active in the k-pop fandom kind of thing like stan twitter
so I saw that this big account she tweeted that
she didn't like something of this band and then like all the fan accounts
started to bash her because first of all, she's a big account.
She's supposed to you know do
good with the following she has
and secondly, this is an example of like
how she went against the dominant belief.
I think I have to echo with Cheryl because
you know as a k-pop fan
Yes I saw it
Because I feel like you know while everyone agrees that
"Oh, it's to keep you know people in power,
people with influence in check" but because it's been so normalized
anybody could get canceled.
Anybody with a twitter account just mentioning
some unpopular opinions can get canceled for just saying that.
BRB deleting all my old tweets.
Cancel culture places people into a
pigeonhole of traits.
I don't feel that it is actually pigeonholing people
into a limited set of traits because a lot of these times
when they do say something, be it racist
homophobic, xenophobic or anything
it comes from a space of ignorance and lack of education
so in a sense that telling them that you actually need to educate yourself that
well there's not really a place for like sexism, homophobia
all these kind of things because
all these are all ignorance and
if you're still into that right
you're basically following the idea that ignorance is bliss
and you're just like spewing hatred in a sense okay.
Okay from a psychology perspective
I think a lot of things happen when you decide that
you don't agree with someone.
So that's to say like if you don't identify with them
or like the beliefs that they espoused
you put them into the outgroup
so a lot of things happen when you put somebody into this outgroup
so it's quite a proven tendency that you are more likely to stereotype them
so you will assume that they have certain traits
which fit your preconceptions of what a person like that
who disagrees with you is supposed to behave like
and in that effort to do so I think a lot of people often overlook
the complexity of the individual that they are targeting
so that can be very problematic and it's often why sometimes
even apologies are not enough I think.
I feel like a lot of YouTubers nowadays when they make a mistake they think that
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"I'm so sorry."
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"I just want to tell you I've been suffering so much."
NO.
I really think that can be seen as too little too late.
I think like what Gwyneth said about like nowadays
an apology isn't enough I think a lot of people are kind of looking for
actual change like action to change
their conduct on social media
and also see them start advocating for the communities
that they might have marginalized in the process.
So at the end of the day if you said a racist remark
or homophobic remark, it reflects your personality
of how ignorant you can be to certain things like for example
Joanna Theng and her video of how
the six-coloured flag is just satanic. You know I feel like it's just a form of
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It's just like ignorant for her to not have researched you know properly
about the history of a rainbow flag and
while she has apologized about it and say
"Oh I still love the people you know.
I can love people but not support their lifestyle."
That's not loving someone.
Right?
It's like I feel while the people think
oh they have change, they're more empathetic
I just feel like you know, cancel culture
will make people become more fake.
Cancel culture is a result of an intolerance to differences in opinions.
I think for me I disagree that cancel culture means that people can't
have different opinions because I feel like
yes you can have your freedom of speech
but that doesn't mean that
there's freedom of consequences.
yes you're like entitled to your own opinions
but people are also entitled to have opinions
about your opinions as well you know.
Sometimes, opinion can cross the line especially
when they have real-life effects on marginalized people.
Yeah I feel like cancel culture is more of like
there are two camps
This is the right camp, this is like the unpopular camp
so if you belong to the unpopular camp
you're just canceled.
I feel like cancel culture you know puts the fear in people
to even say an opinion in the first place
because they're scared of what they share
is going to be you know criticized or to the point where
even their livelihood will be ruined because of their opinions.
A lot of people say like
"Oh cancel culture means that I can't share my opinions"
or like
"My opinions are not tolerated".
My problem with this argument is that a lot of people
they use this argument to try to silence criticism
instead of really in the exchange of ideas which is like
the whole point of freedom of speech in the first place.
I think that there's actually one more very important party
that is not really talked about.
Okay so in an episode if there's a target,
that's a canceler, it may be a group
or it may be an individual
but there's also an audience.
The audience is there and it is important
to remember that they have agency
so it is very important that whatever you say
you need to be ready to take responsibility for it
like what Filment mentioned.
So if you say something that you get a backlash for
don't act surprised like
"Oh my god! You guys are canceling me.
This is violating my free speech".
Nobody cares okay like okay
If you make your bed, you lie in it.
That's right, that's right.
Period. Period.
What is considered unacceptable social behaviour is undefined.
This is a question that has a lot of nuances like
it's a grey area that like you can't really put a label on
but you know like most of the time like unacceptable social behavior
is like more like an unspoken rule like for example
you shouldn't say the N word you know because
it has a history of slavery and oppression.
For me, it's about constantly educating myself
and listening to what the marginalized think.
My stance is we all come from like different backgrounds
and have different experiences and different privileges
there is no hard rule to what is acceptable or not
I think it's more of like what the majority or
what millennials nowadays believe is right
and what they firmly stand by you know
since everyone is so woke nowadays.
I think the lines are really blur like today I think I could believe that
it is right to support this belief but tomorrow when trend change
you know suddenly I'm wrong for supporting this.
I do agree with what Cheryl said in a sense that
society is based upon not just a few people not just Millennials
there's like Gen Z, Millennials, there's
elderly.
I don't want to say Boomers.
Boomers
There's like, there's so many age groups,
there's so many trains of thought that influence it
which is why I think social behavior
is always very difficult to navigate for people
all about educating yourself
and when you don't do that you just end up ignorant
and that's when you come off as like
out of the norm from the social behavior
I believe that norms are always changing
Yes
so if you're talking about a very large period of time,
it is always undefined because you never know
when it might change tomorrow.
So for example last time you know, Singapore used to be
relatively more conservative than it is today
but however with the rise of the size and
the influence of the younger generation is actually a bit of a shift.
So I think norms are always in flux so they can change across time.
So I think the law is actually a way that you define norms.
So what do you think about cancel culture?
Has it always been around or is it a new phenomenon?
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