Cancel culture is addictive and it provides a short term win and will result in a long term fail. I disagree with Michelle's assertion that it's not job of the oppressed to educate, because doing so suggests that people are only valid when they subscribe to a particular group identity. It is the job of every single individual to educate every other individual on their lived experience and to find compassionate and meaningful compromise in a complicated world. Group thinking, of which cancel culture is a huge part, can only ever lead to the closing down of meaningful discourse and the stymieing of psychological change. It leads to increasingly walled and impenatrable echo chambers which serve the 'most righteous' and 'most woke'. Those in the chamber will continue to rip each other apart on idelogical lines, cancelling each other with reackless abandon until the realisation dawns that the basic building block of society is the individual, not the oppressed group. Great article. Loved it. Loved your style of writing and hope this article gets the traction it deserves.