Has a distasteful joke ever left a bad taste in your mouth or have you tried to express your opinion in the most positive way possible with a backlash of nasty comments as a result?
In recent years, a term coined ‘cancel culture’ has become the latest phenomenon with the potential to thrust an individual out of their social or professional circles after doing something that is widely deemed as wrong.
In 2020, US television star Ellen DeGeneres was ‘cancelled’ after being accused of having a toxic workplace culture, and just a few months later Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was ‘cancelled’ after a succession of online posts and activities were labelled as transphobic.
In a matter of minutes, the career, fame, or popularity that they had spent years building was crushed by an
