0 a way of behaving in a society or group, especially on social media, in which it is common to completely reject and stop supporting someone because they have said or done something that offends you:
Cancel culture has its place - it helps to call out and remove problematic people from mainstream culture.
Let’s call cancel culture what it really is: it is our way to exert some control over a world that is increasingly becoming more dangerous and less tolerant.
In a cancel culture, we appoint ourselves the arbiters of right and wrong and also the judge and jury, because thanks to social media, we get to dole out punishment.