“Cancel culture” is the ultimate love-humankind-but-hate-people strategy. Jesus said it is morally upright to love your neighbor and turn the other cheek. Cancellers believe it is morally upright to despise your neighbor and verbally abuse those whose viewpoints differ from your own. They seem to be motivated by a set of virtuous traits that, when stirred together in today’s toxic social media atmosphere, become vices. The need to “do something” can spur people to thoughtlessly sign petitions that organizers adroitly manipulate to create the impression of godlike force. Skill at social media communication quickly whips the easily offended into a frenzied mob bent on revenge. While some mainstream media outlets claim that cancel culture is not real, the experience of everyday Americans and a number of polls prove otherwise.
This ebook, 20 Things to Say & Do to Fight the Cancel Culture: How to Be an Everyday Champion for Free Speech, takes a look at what the cancel culture is and the threat it represents. It analyzes a devastating “cancel event” from the inside and discusses some surprising things you can do and say to become a free-speech champion in times like these.
Dr. Jeff Myers advises readers to fight the cancel culture by:
- Remembering that the cancel culture comes from erroneous worldviews
- Supporting the bi-partisan rejection of cancel culture
- Upholding the dignity of all people
- Deciding that hurting people is not the goal of public discourse
- Seeing the pain inside
- Not using your faith to justify a “righteous” kind of cancel culture
- Going to the source
- Making your case
- Going for change, not cancellation
- Extending forgiveness
In the midst of cultural conflict, Christians are ultimately to advocate for the truth and prioritize being ambassadors of Christ for the glory of God.
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