It is purely intended to divide and not actually increase debate. When people can't express what are often very mild political opinions, see JK Rowling, that conversation, that opinion doesn't go away. When women can't talk about our bodies anymore in the language we have always used without others telling us we have to include men, we still talk about - we're just doing it underground.

Cancel culture is for wankers. If your immediate reaction to hearing something you don't agree with is to try to get the person saying it fired, consider that maybe you're very fragile and should probably do us all a favour and take yourself out of the gene pool.

A lot of it feels performative, and It doesn't really seem to mean much, at least among the famous - hell being 'cancelled' is probably good for their careers in the end, like right now people are Mad Online™ about Dave Chapelle's latest Netflix special and for all the pearl-clutching and hand-wringing, it seems unlikely his career will suffer in the slightest...regular people have it way worse, they are the ones who an unruly Twitter mob will get fired , and while maybe it feels good, it strikes me as pointless - do ya'll really think racist Uncle Jethro is going to stop being racist because he got fired from the chicken feed plant? Who does that help? If anything he'll be more bitter toward the groups he hates, plus racist Uncle Jethro might have a wife and kids depending on him to provide, they deserve to starve for ya'll to feel good about getting somebody fired?

TLDR, let people say what they wanna say, ya'll ain't gotta listen - block, unfollow, don't buy their new album, do whatever you gotta do and move on