It’s true that Gen Zers are often at the helm of cancel culture campaigns. But we’re not nearly as awful as our squeakiest wheels might suggest.
Gen Z gets a bad rap – and rightfully so. Employers and professors alike know they have to walk on eggshells around coddled students or new hires who seem to be offended by something new every day – and are willing to report them to HR or put them on blast on social media for supposed transgressions. It’s true that Gen Zers are often at the helm of cancel culture campaigns. But I come bearing good news: it’s a tyranny of the minority.
According to a Morning Consult survey, although younger Americans tend to have a more positive view of cancel culture, with Millennials being the most pro-cancel culture generation, Zoomers reverse that trend entirely. Just 8% of Gen Zers born between 1997 and 2008 say they have a positive view of cancel culture, while a whopping 55% have a negative view.
That’s why young people are overwhelmingly opposed to cancel culture. We’re desperate for a shift away from condemnation and toward forgiveness. Unless we want to raise a generation of citizens who live in perpetual fear of being burned at the stake for saying or doing the wrong thing, we must cancel cancel culture once and for all. We need to give people, and especially young people, the freedom to fumble – and to learn from mistakes.
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