Forced Oblivion: Cancel Culture and Historical Identity

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Cancel culture undermines meritocracy by rejecting individual achievements and manipulating social identity.
This analysis highlights the roles of historicism, presentism, and universalism in the politics of forgetting.
Observational analysis explores decontextualization and recontextualization as methods to counteract cancel culture.
An agonistic memory framework acknowledges the complexity of social and political processes at play.

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Analysis reveals how cancel culture shapes social identity, undermining meritocracy, while suggesting strategies for inclusivity.

Golovashina et al. (2025) studied this question.

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