I hope Miss Americana speaks to anyone who engages with cancel culture. The judgement of others based on opinions and disreputable evidence has to stop. An accusation, whether that accusation has merit or not, is based on ignorance and it has consequences. Unless you have a full scope of knowledge of the person being accused or forensic evidence, as in, full disclosure of their side and evidence admissible in a court of law, no one has the right to drag anyone.
"When people decided I was wicked, and evil, and canniving, and not a good person, that was the one I couldn't really bounce back from, cause my whole life was centered around it" @taylorswift
When we are quick to judge and slow to question, the human being at the other side of an @ with real lives, real careers, real families, real struggles, real anxiety, they suffer immeasurable pain.
"I've been doing this for 15 years and I'm tired of it. I'm just tired of the... just, just feels like it's more than music now at this point. And most days I'm like okay, but then sometimes I'm just like... it just gets LOUD sometimes."
You don't know how near or far from a ledge a person is. Dragging them on a public platform can cause a lot of damage, possibly irreversible damage. It's not fair. It's a middle aged approach to justice in a modern age when we have the right to unbiased jury trials. It's no different than a public stoning. And it's rampant in this fandom with fans as young as 13.
"When people fall out of love with you, there's nothing you can do to make them change their minds, they just don't love you anymore. I just wanted to disappear."
If seeing Taylor sobb over being so vigilantly hated on social media made you want to throat punch someone and hug her all at the same time, then start spreading the message that cancel culture is NOT COOL. If not for the sake of the humans that are at the other side of an @ now, then for the sake of our kids who will inherently suffer from this vile and toxic social behavior.