When someone says something you disagree with, how do you respond? Do you try to understand their perspective – or even challenge them – or do you decide that they’re a ‘bad person’ and distance yourself? In the media, this is known as ‘cancel culture’, which is ‘publicly calling out and boycotting individuals, groups or entities because of perceived offences or controversial opinions they have expressed,’ says Smriti Joshi, lead psychologist at AI mental health app Wysa.
Perhaps the most famous example of this is the cancelling
