Last Updated ：2025/12/04

cancel culture

derogatory neologism often uncountable

(neologism, often derogatory) The cultural phenomenon of publicly shaming, rejecting, and ceasing to provide support to people, companies, stores, etc. that are deemed unacceptable, and calling on others to boycott them.

Japanese Meaning

キャンセル・カルチャー（名詞）：受け入れがたいと判断された人、企業、店舗などに対して、公の場で非難や拒絶、支援の停止、さらにはボイコットを呼びかける文化現象。特に、侮蔑的な意味合いで用いられることが多い。

What is this buttons?

Many people argue that cancel culture punishes mistakes without offering a path to redemption.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

多くの人は、公開の非難やボイコットの呼びかけという行為が、償いの機会を与えずに過ちを罰していると主張する。

Details

Sense（1）

With roots in Black Twitter, cancel culture is an unavoidable mainstay of our infotainment age. In an era of too much everything—TV, opinions, news—we’ve come to rely on a vocabulary of consolidation: likes, tweets, emoji. Cancel culture is one of these argots—a governor, a self-regulatory device I have come to wield with pride (if infrequent recklessness). In the collective, the gesture is absolute: we can’t. We’re done. And so we asphyxiate support from a notable cause or figure. Roseanne Barr referred to Valerie Jarrett as an ape? Cancelled. Harvey Weinstein was outed as a sexual predator? Cancelled.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation