The principle of baiting stars in the network is described

Scientist Peter Kurti: Online Bullying Does Not Require Proof of the “Canceled” Person's Guilt a person who falls prey to a culture of cancellation. Peter Kurti, director of the Culture, Prosperity and Civil Society program at the Australian Center for Independent Research and associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame in Australia, told Lenta.ru about the principle of how stars are “canceled”.

According to him, the participants in online harassment may often be completely unfamiliar with the “canceled” person and know little about the case that led to the scandal. “They do not study the evidence themselves, they just join the crowd and attack the person together,” he said.

Kurti noted that the phenomenon of the culture of abolition hit the Anglo-Saxon countries especially hard, it is closely intertwined with the accusations of these states in their colonial and imperialist past, as well as involvement in slavery.

According to him, people, using a culture of abolition, seek to break with a painful past, but at the same time focus little on what can be done in the fight against the same slavery in the present. “I think the culture of cancellation is too fixated on the past and the desire to break with it, rather than looking to the future and understanding what kind of society we need to build,” he said.

The culture of cancellation Is a modern form of criticism and punishment of an individual or community by depriving support and condemnation both online and in the real world. The reason can be either a controversial or politically incorrect statement out loud, or a post on the Internet. This often leads to job loss, deprivation of previously received awards and the destruction of a person's reputation.

The reasons for bullying people whose views contradict the new morality have become one of the central themes of the Lenta.ru project entitled “Problems of the First World “. The materials are united by the theme of the crisis of liberal values ​​in the Western world and the split in society. They talk about how the ideas of freedom and universal equality are turning into an instrument of oppression, and the struggle for the rights of some groups of people turns into the powerlessness of others.

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