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Of course it's up to us. Consumers have the ultimate control. If enough people consume or don't consume, companies listen.
How do you band a critical mass of people to counter the firing of an alleged racist who's high crime against the wokeness is not liking the BLM organization or states "allLivesMatter" on their twitter? The first ones out in support are going to get picked off as supposed racists too and chill the whole effect to exactly where we are today and people say it's not worth their while
Cancel culture has been around pretty much forever. Just a modern spin on shunning and ostracizing...magnified by how stupid comments now spread around the world on social media...to be shamed by the world rather than laughed off by your friends and neighbors.
Both political ideologies use cancel culture to play their games.
It's up to us --- we consume the media.
We drive the markets (not we at this board but we the consumers).
From the left........blackball Chrisette Michelle, for performing for Trump inauguration.
From the right......blackball Dixie Chicks, for their anti-Iraq War stand.
Cancel culture says that the consumer's rights to listen, or not listen, to art based on that artists' political views or stances, (or, perception of a view or political stance), is absolute!
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