Show notes
In this episode, Clementine and I…
- discuss the shaming, punitive nature of social justice culture and how that plays into cancel culture
- compare cancel culture to fundamentalist Christianity
- explain the snowball effect of canceling, ostracizing, and harassment of cancel culture
- discuss how cancel culture has created hyper-vigilance, self monitoring, and people-pleasing (hint: all trauma responses)
- discuss the nervous system response, nervous system literacy, triggers, and cancel culture
- reveal the hypocrisy of the left abolitionist beliefs and other social justice movements and cancel culture
- dive into racial essentialism and the idea that racism is real but race is not
- explore the individual, community, and collective trauma created by cancel culture
- expose the lack of boundaries on social media
- talk about restorative justice and how the climate of cancel culture doesn’t provide the compassion and community for accountability and healing
- discuss the importance of community in nervous system literacy and distinguishing between past trauma and a current (potentially not dangerous) situation
- examine the importance and necessity of humanizing those who have caused harm