Cancel Culture.
Semantics: An explicit calling out of a person/situation that doesn’t exactly fit in in our “woke” state.
For the purpose of this article, I am addressing this phenomenon on a much smaller, local level. I have a different take on it. - I feel like it has gone too far. It is toxic. It feels like bullying dressed up in something sophisticated.
If you don’t like what you see and it isn’t affecting anyone else, just don’t see.. it’s very simple.
What exactly do you think you are doing when you cancel people for simply having views different from yours??!!
You cannot ban people from saying something you don’t agree with.
You are basically saying it’s either “My way or the Highway”; you are saying you are intolerant, that you can’t agree to disagree, that they have to be gone.
Isn’t that exactly what happens on a playground? We identify it as bullying and we attempt to teach our kids to embrace our differences? To celebrate everyone’s uniqueness? Or do we say to our kids, you don’t like what they said, throw them out of the group, don’t allow them to join your game?
Think.
Are we going too far with this intolerant attitude? Should we maybe dial it down? How exactly will we learn to coexist if we don’t even try? And what are we teaching the next generation?
By all means call out someone who might be racist, sexist, unfair, entitled but give them a chance to address the concern. Give them a chance to show you - they might be willing to change things - because your relationship might mean more to them than their own opinion did. Don’t shut them out - unless you were there only superficially and the relationship didn’t mean anything to you, in which case, maybe you take a seat.
Think. Adapt. Move on.
Thanks!
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Sweta Shah Sakhpara is a pranic energy therapist and a pranic psychotherapist. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation to kids, adults and families. When she is not doing any of the above, she actively practices being a mindful parent to two kids.
Having learned and practiced pranic healing for ~fifteen years, Sweta has been blessed with the trust of many clients for ailments as simple as a headache to complex ones like Tourette’s syndrome, from depression and anxiety to finding ways to embrace the idea of a new normal with a child being diagnosed on the spectrum. You could read more about her HERE.
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