Former CBS host Sharon Osbourne.
The so-called “cancel Culture” seems to be becoming a social trend. According to a new poll released Monday (March 29) exclusively by Harvard University’s CAPS-Harris Poll, a majority of Americans believe that “cancel culture” is a threat to freedom.
According to the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, released on Monday, 64 percent of respondents said the “growing culture of cancellation” is a threat to their freedom, while 36 percent said it is not a threat to their freedom. Their freedom.
In addition, the poll found that 36 percent of Americans said the culture of abolition is a “big problem,” while 32 percent said it is “not a big problem. Another 20 percent said it was a “small problem” and 13 percent said it was “not a problem.
The Hill reports that Merriam-Webster defines “cancellation culture” as the practice of “cancelling” a group of people in order to express dissatisfaction with that group and exert social pressure on it.
The poll comes at a Time when “cancellation culture” is becoming increasingly popular and socially controversial.
British media personalities Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan have recently been the subject of “cancellation” polls.
CBS announced Friday (March 26) that Osbourne, the longtime co-host of CBS’s “The Talk,” is stepping down from the daytime show. The reason is that she was canceled earlier this month after an internal review of a heated conversation about race.
Morgan’s departure from “Good Morning Britain” is due to inappropriate comments he made during an interview with Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. For example, he said he didn’t believe her when she said she had mental health problems and had considered suicide.
Osbourne once defended Morgan on the show: “I have a friend who a lot of people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist too. I even felt like I was about to be sent to the electric chair.”
Morgan wrote an op-ed in the Daily Mail last week defending Osborne.
“Sharon Osbourne quit ‘The Talk’ – guilty of defending me – and was thrown out.” He wrote.
The poll found that 54 percent of respondents were “worried” that they would be silenced or fired if they expressed their views online, while 46 percent said they were not.
“It’s a chilling finding that most people in this country are now afraid they will be fired if they express their true views on social media.” said Mark Penn, director of the Harvard CAPS-Harris poll.
“The public generally gives a negative assessment of social media companies, seeing the campaign as more about censorship than about trying to right wrongs. It’s becoming a national issue.” He added.
Filmmakers Clarence Felder and Chris Weatherhead say the “culture of cancellation” is expanding, not only to have a chilling effect on people working in creative fields, but also to try to imprison people’s minds more generally, to the detriment of society and civilization.
“I think the idea is to erase our history, to erase our traditions, our values, everything – whatever it takes to do it.” Weatherhead said she believes the “culture of abolition” is out of control.
“Whether it’s theater, or film, or television, or podcasts – it’s a way to communicate what’s important.” Weatherhead says that the “culture of cancellation” is now so ubiquitous that it’s “scary.”
The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll was conducted by the Center for the Study of American Politics at Harvard University in partnership with the Harris Poll. The poll was conducted March 24-25 among 1,945 registered voters.
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