Ayishat Akanbi suggests many of them are:
I know online it seems that people don't change their ideas … but our ideas can change quite quickly. And so to cancel people for tweets that they made years ago, potentially even things that they said last week, I think is just to lie to yourself. It lacks a certain self-examination that I think is crucial.
If everybody was to act as though they've never said something homophobic, especially if you've ever grown up in a strongly religious family, I think you could be telling porkies [lies].
We talk so much about mental health and how important it is, and how we have to remember that mental health is just as important as physical health. And then to discard people at the first sign of something we dislike — the two don't marry very well to me.
We undermine how easy it is for us to become the people that we dislike. With a different circumstance, a different upbringing, a different culture, how I could easily become a lot of the things that I dislike or find harmful.… I'm much more interested in the root causes as opposed to the symptoms.…
We should always remember that just because something is popular doesn't make it good.… Sometimes popularity is just a measure of how much people aren't thinking. If your advocacy or activism is motivated by the fear of being canceled, then you will adopt the popular belief. Mob culture is very terrifying. But … if you are committed to trying to make the world a better place, or your community a better place … you have to be prepared to think for yourself.
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