Cancel culture, the online phenomenon of boycotting public figures who say or do the wrong thing, is the Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year.
The term was chosen over several other new words added to the dictionary of Australian English in 2019, including "whataboutism", "robodebt" and "thicc".The dictionary's entry for cancel culture describes it as "the attitudes within a community which call for or bring about the withdrawal of support from a public figure".
The term is also known as "callout culture" or "outrage culture". Sometimes, it involves intense criticism for things celebrities have said or done in the past, such as an offensive tweet."Usually it's a comment or something that is perceived as unacceptable or wrong," Ms Morgan said. An example of the latter is actor Kevin Spacey, after he faced a series of allegations of sexual assault.
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