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I don't think council culture is a real thing. I think that it is a term that we've created to figure out how to make a thing that doesn't feel good.

Also, sound like a bad thing. We use it a lot, it's become really popular, and I actually don't think that's what we're talking about.

I think the cancel culture is a really sneaky term that has come into the popular consciousness so that folks who have historically held power can name the thing that's happening to them as a bad thing, right?

Because when someone's demanding that you be responsible for harms that you have

continuously caused, the collective demand for that to happen, we identify as a culture and then we say oh well what you're asking

is for me to be canceled right and and I think it's way more nuanced than that I think

what's being asked for is for the people

who hold power and positionality

and that power and positionality

allows them to be incredibly harmful,

to not have access to being incredibly harmful,

which includes power and positionality.

If you have a platform and you use it to be really harmful,

you probably shouldn't have that platform until you learn how to

navigate your harm.

That is a different thing than just like, we're canceling everybody.

The problem is we treat everything with a one-size-fits- all kind of approach and part of that is because we as a

species as a society struggle with nuance and the only understanding that we have currently about accountability comes inside of a punitive system.

The only way societally that we talk about accountability is jail.

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