16. Cancel culture online is hurting us all

Communication on social media has the potential to be frustrating or painful, which is why this is the third episode in a row devoted to the topic. We looked at interpersonal dialogue in episode 14, and inner dialogue in episode 15, so now it’s time to examine cancel culture.

You may be surprised to find out the origins of cancel culture don’t have anything to do with social media!

Although it doesn’t have recent beginnings, there are several factors in our modern lives that have caused an explosion of cancel or “call out” culture. I’ll tell you what those factors are and how you can help reduce them in your life.

Looking through the Language Alchemy lens, social media communication offers us the opportunity to develop capacity for a more humane, humble, and bridge-building type of dialogue.

I’m sharing three steps you can take before you decide to cancel someone.

Takeaways from this episode:

• Cancel culture didn’t originate in the age of social media.
• Communicating over the computer, where we can see only a small profile picture of someone, diminishes the humanity we feel towards them.
• There are three things you could do before deciding to cancel someone. 

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LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:

Listen to Episode 14, which focuses on the use of social media and your interpersonal communication:

https://www.languagealchemy.com/podcasts/language-alchemy-podcast/episodes/2147613127

Listen to Episode 15, where I delve into the dynamics between social media and our internal dialogue:

https://www.languagealchemy.com/podcasts/language-alchemy-podcast/episodes/2147618163

Learn about Anita Bright’s work ‘Calling In, Not Calling Out: A Critical Race Framework for Nurturing Cross-Cultural Alliances’:

https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/calling-in-not-calling-out/163988

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