Repeat after me: call out culture is damaging to a society and a persons mental health.

Let's just discuss what call out culture actually is.

So a very current example would be people "exposing" celebrities for old tweets they made back in 2011 and you call them out for this behaviour.

When you publicly call someone out, you are implying that you have a lot more knowledge that you don't possess and that they are inferior to you.

When you call someone out PUBLICLY you lose control of the situation. You are automatically allowing other people to enter the situation.

I think some people may remember that in April, a user on here posted a controversial rant. The reactions to this rant got out of control. People were telling her to kill herself, that she's "cancelled" (in a serious context). While I don't agree with what she said, I also do not approve of how the situation was handled. It was pathetic and disappointing. Her own friends turned on her and posted shade at her and sent their followers onto her and she ended up deactivating her account and making a new one. And unfortunately I contributed to this.

If you don't agree with what someone says on here, don't go into their comments and say "omg you're cancelled lmao how could you even think this?" Because we have news feeds lmao, it'll blow up unnecessarily. Privately message them and say "hey I saw what you said here and I don't agree for this reason." That way, you share opinions and don't drag anyone through the dirt for no reason.

People are so desensitised to this that their first response to any opinion that doesn't correlate to theirs is to throw words like "problematic" "cancelled" "kys" "I hate you" "you're a piece of shit" and my favourite, "educate yourself." Which is an extremely immature way to handle a situation.

I just want to emphasise that, people say this over OPINIONS. Just because your opinion falls into the majority where people agree with you, does not make your opinion fact. It's opinion. You have no right to go up to someone and PUBLICLY "call them out" for a differ of opinion.

As someone who's studied English lit and history, the concept of contextual knowledge has been drilled into my head. You can't make a judgement about something without the context.

A lot of the tweets from 2011 contain the n word and derogatory things like that, rap music at the time (which gained popularity) uses the words a lot. So what I can put together is that they got popularised so people thought it was acceptable to say these things and went to social media with it, and you know because nowadays we can't go a day without ruining an influencers career, the tweets get pulled up and "exposed."

When you call someone out, you don't know what is going on in their life, what they're facing, what they're truly like. The internet is a place where we put what we want people to see. You bringing up something from the PAST is damaging because they might be trying to move on from that, that might be a phase in their life that they're not proud of etc etc

I get that if you use words and phrases that I mentioned ironically (like I do) it's fine but when you have an online argument with someone and you suddenly are like "Lana is over" for a mistake? That's when you cross the line.

But who am I to speak, we're all perfect and we don't make mistakes and when a person does make a mistake that's the last straw!!!