5 Reasons Why People Love Cancel Culture 1. Cancel culture increases social status. The most powerful motive underpinning cancel culture is social status. Research reveals that sociometric status (respect and admiration from our peers) is more important to our sense of well-being than socioeconomic status.
2. Cancel culture reduces the social status of enemies. Plainly, if there is an activity that will elevate the status of oneself or one’s group, people will do it. One approach to elevation is to do something good. But doing something good requires effort and the possibility of failure. Fortunately, another option exists: Broadcasting the bad behavior of others.
3. Cancel culture strengthens social bonds. Cancel culture is not a solitary activity. People enjoy uniting around a common purpose. They derive satisfaction from coming together against a perpetrator. They enjoy the sense of solidarity it provides. Cancel culture is a collective activity that strengthens social bonds for members within the group.
4. Cancel culture forces enemies to reveal themselves. Cancel culture allows people to identify who is loyal to their movement. Broadcasting the transgressions of others forces everyone to respond. Though targets of cancel culture commit transgressions of varying degrees of severity, often they have done something that has gone out of fashion.
5. Cancel culture produces fast rewards. The social rewards are immediate and gratifying and the dangers too distant and abstract. “You could be next” does not compute for most people. It’s just a set of words. But the social rewards of status and in-group camaraderie instantly register.
Dungeons & Dragons Artist Tess Fowler Attacks Batman Artist Sean Gordon Murphy After He Announces Murphyverse Imprint At DC Comics
Dungeons & Dragons artist Tess Fowler attacked Batman: White Knight creator Sean Gordon Murphy after he announced a new Murphyverse imprint at DC Comics.
In a now-deleted tweet captured by The Splintering, Murphy detailed that DC Comics wants a “mini imprint of White Knight.” He added, “I’ll write the bones for new minis, and they’ll set up the writer/artist team.”
He continued, “It’ll be done between new volumes of Batman White Knight. It���ll be the Murphyverse.”
Murphy then teased that new books featuring Harley Quinn, Nightwing, and Batgirl would be released.
Following this announcement Dungeons & Dragons artist Tess Fowler attacked Murphy and insinuated he’s a bigot.
Fowler wrote on Twitter, “Known Batman writer, who supports bigots in a hate movement as well as supports that hate movement’s apologists, has a new imprint at DC and is hiring…bigots?”
She added, “I told y’all in f***ing 2017 dude was a problem. But ooo he makes Batman comics.”
Fowler would then seemingly attempt to defend her insinuation that Murphy was a bigot by calling it a critique. Fowler would then double down on her attack against Murphy by claiming he’s part of a hate group, while continuing to claim all she was doing was critiquing him.
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