Madison Beer bashes cancel culture for not treating influencers like humans Instagram, @madisonbeer \/ Pexels, Eric YeichTikTok star, singer and just overall influencer Madison Beer has delivered a nuanced rebuttal against cancel culture, claiming that the behavior prevents constructive criticism and doesn\u2019t treat celebrities like humans. Cancel culture has many proponents and many critics. Among the latter group, Madison Beer is a surprise addition. Typically, denizens of the internet expect cancel culture\u2019s opponents to represent the groups that are most subject to cancelation \u2014 namely those who represent majorities and hold anti-progressive views. Beer, a 21-year-old woman, doesn\u2019t neatly fit into those stereotypes but, nevertheless, she has posted a firm Instagram story bashing the tenets of cancel culture and, instead, vaguely promoting the values of empathy and compassion. People in the public eye have been subject to cancelation in recent years as progressive values push social media to enact its own version of accountability. Influencers have, unsurprisingly, not been spared and Beer has some criticisms for how that accountability is enforced. Beer essentially breaks her sentiments into three main points. First, she argues that \u201ccelebrities, influencers or anyone of the sort are, for some reason, deemed not as human as everyone else.\u201d Following on, she contends that the assumption that people\u2019s \u201cfavorite celeb, artist or influencer is perfect\u201d is a \u201cpure societal error.\u201d The conclusion of this point is that cancel culture is flawed because it unfairly criticizes people, who have been raised \u201con a pedestal,\u201d for their \u201chuman mistakes.\u201d So, in her eyes, the initial problem is that celebrities are held to too high of a standard. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIq6TfuF0hl\/ Beer\u2019s second point, or \u201csecond layer,\u201d is that the mechanisms of cancel culture prevent meaningful, solution-oriented discourse. By receiving \u201cthousands of tweets telling you to kill yourself,\u201d critics crowd a space that could, instead, be filled with \u201creal productive conversation or resolutions or lessons.\u201d While she agrees that there should be \u201c100% accountability and consequences,\u201d the influencer argues that, \u201cin most cases,\u201d cancel culture simply equates to bullying someone with a platform. Some remain unconvinced by Beer\u2019s message, with one user offering a simple rebuke: \u201cWhy is she talking? She has pretty-girl privilege.\u201d Which leads directly into the influencer\u2019s third point, that \u201ckindness, compassion and empathy are really cool\u201d and that \u201cpeople should just practice these simple things a bit more.\u201d While we won\u2019t dive into the structural integrity of Beer\u2019s argument, it\u2019s clear that the young social media star is thinking deeply about the relationship between influencer and the influenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Madison Beer bashes cancel culture for not treating influencers like humans Instagram, @madisonbeer \/ Pexels, Eric YeichTikTok star, singer and just overall influencer Madison Beer has delivered a nuanced rebuttal against cancel culture, claiming that the behavior prevents constructive criticism and doesn\u2019t treat celebrities like humans. Cancel culture has many proponents and many critics. Among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}