A really key difference that I feel gets missed is the "who swung first" aspect.
A great deal of what gets called "cancel culture" is people reacting to someone behaving in a way that harms others, including but not limited to...
- Discrimination (gender, orientation, religion, race, whatever)
- Harassment
- Threats, ranging from the subtle to the overt
- Actual violence
Quite often, the targets of this behavior have done nothing beyond exist and be honest about who they are and how they see themselves. Their harassers swung first.
To take your porn example (I too am old enough to remember the 90s), the moral majority was swinging first. They were offended by porn, but no one was forcing them to consume it. No one was threatening or harassing them.
Maybe the right wing (which is where the moral majority centered as well) should consider why they keep swinging first instead of why sometimes people swing back.
A great deal of what gets called "cancel culture" is people reacting to someone behaving in a way that harms others, including but not limited to...
- Discrimination (gender, orientation, religion, race, whatever) - Harassment - Threats, ranging from the subtle to the overt - Actual violence
Quite often, the targets of this behavior have done nothing beyond exist and be honest about who they are and how they see themselves. Their harassers swung first.
To take your porn example (I too am old enough to remember the 90s), the moral majority was swinging first. They were offended by porn, but no one was forcing them to consume it. No one was threatening or harassing them.
Maybe the right wing (which is where the moral majority centered as well) should consider why they keep swinging first instead of why sometimes people swing back.