Well, I am not as surrounded by it now since I closed my computer a bit. They're the most rampant through social media outlets. With the masks, my family has had a little bit of issues because people assuming if you are not wearing a mask you either don't care and are awful or you're one of those anti-maskers. My grandpa had a manager get called on him at Winco because he wasn't wearing a mask. His doctor says he shouldn't wear one because he already has issues due to his heart and the medicine he has to take for it, and wearing the mask would cause him issues with not enough oxygen within the blood. I have an anxiety disorder and the mask gives me, albeit irrational, anxiety in which makes it extremely difficult for me to wear it. We have found it easier to go to select stores that either do not mandate it, or have exceptions for health conditions. Not all of them do... But I feel my friends kind of assumed I'm one of those annoying people who won't do it rather than taking my anxiety seriously which not only made me feel like I do not matter, but made me really depressed and terrified if the next years of my life I'll have to apply for disability or something because this isn't going to end.
I am a major music listener and I feel like cancel culture, because so many people get "cancelled" for the littlest things and then they have to save face, has ruined some of the arts because people are trying so fucking hard not to trigger the keyboard warriors otherwise they've gotta deal with the negative PR. It causes many stars now to get very political or even almost shoving things down your throat in the same way and I do not like that, and I don't like having to listen to their new "wokeness" in my music because its for positive publicity. It feels completely fake whenever they do something for a movement now.
Cancel culture I feel has made efforts to remove anything they don't like. You like "The Notebook"? Well you know she slaps him in the movie, domestic violence. Avid Twilight fan? Edward's a creep stalker. Do you think Gone With the Wind is an amazing piece of literature? NOPE SHOWS SLAVERY. Lady Antebellum can't even be Lady Antebellum anymore. I thought the point was growing from history and showing reality, not acting like it didn't happen at all and trying to erase it...
I did have a friend who was very into the "Political correctness" side of it to the point part of her issues with her parents were when they didn't use what she felt was the sensitive language. she felt her family needed to "grow up" and realize "the way they speak isn't correct anymore." I personally found her to be pretty fucking insensitive herself. But that's another point.
I do have trouble relating to kids my age similarly, because I don't agree with all of this. They think they're making the world a better place, I think they're trying to force their views on everyone and take away my right to my own free thought and belief. I don't care if they choose not to indulge personally, but don't try to take away my choice of doing so by making a cancel campaign.
In Idaho, anyone who was protesting adverse to the BLM had pictures taken of them, put on twitter, told the people where they worked, and some of those people actually LOST THEIR JOBS. It wasn't even on company time they did it. These people want to literally destroy any thought that isn't theirs. I find it disgusting. It didn't used to affect me much over here in Idaho, but now it is. I never liked it, but now I vehemently don't like it.
