So-Called “Cancel Culture” Doesn’t Exist, But As White Women We Really Want it To (Let’s Move Away From the False Binary of Call-Ins and Call-Outs Too)

I’ve noticed we are confusing cancel culture with accountability. I’m speaking particularly to fellow white women…

Read, respect, and pay educators like Ericka Hart and Wagatwe Wanjuki who are leading conversations and actively writing about this. I’m grateful to them and credit them for my understanding about this topic.

I’ve noticed that we are confusing our own capacity, our specifically white people capacity, to jump down each other’s throats for making mistakes or missteps with the real legitimacy of holding people accountable in public for abusing their power.

For example, when I was beginning my journey of waking up to my attachment to whiteness, when I first realized I was white, when I first read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, I was enraged and furious. I called my parents crying and screaming and was like, “What are we doing??!! What are we going to do?!!”