Cancel culture is wokeness taken to a dangerous extreme

Pop-culture enthusiasts will know that the term"stay woke" can be attributed to Erykah Badu's 2008 song,, whose lyrics emphasise the need to always pay attention to something, to everything. It says people should avoid leaning on their own understanding of the world.

Wokeness is not a problem. There is no reasonable person with a clear mind and firm understanding of how the world should work who would argue against wokeness. To argue against it would be a blatant protest for remaining blind to the injustices in society - remaining unconscious to the prejudices and discriminations which keep the world turning and have kept it turning so long on an unbalanced axis that favours some at the expense of others.

Last week I worked on a difficult long-form article about the heinous rape and murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana. I visited the Post Office where it happened. It is haunted by the trauma and plastered in faded protest posters about gender violence. I interviewed Lisa Vetten, activist and researcher. During our conversation I asked her about the effects of outrage and condemnation and the consequences of cancel culture, an offspring of the wokeness phenomenon.

Vetten says cancel culture prevents us from asking difficult questions. The only way to approach social injustice is to ask difficult questions, try to understand and engage with things that we absolutely do not like instead of resolutely reacting to them.

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