Episode 9: You Started It – Who’s to blame for cancel culture?

Main idea: How we’ve become an entire society that doesn’t know how to take responsibility for ourselves.

• Who we are:
  • I’m Kasie, I’m in Columbia and my daughter is 12
  • I’m Jessica. I live in the Upstate of South Carolina, and I have two boys, 6th and 6rd grade. 
  • I’m Melissa in the lowcountry, 3 kids in elementary school
  • I’m Alex also in the lowcountry with a 1 year-and1-month little man
• The purpose and scope of the episode- 
  • How do we teach our kids their actions have consequences when it seems everyone wants to blame someone else for everything?
• Today’s topic: 
  • Do your kids know what cancel culture is?:
    • When they don’t want to play with someone who is being a jerk, they should walk away; when others won’t play with them, they should stop being jerks.
    • Don’t be an asshole. Just because you can be, doesn’t mean you should be.
    • Grace and truth as a spectrum: treat each instance with the appropriate amount of grace and the appropriate amount of truth
  • Cancel culture is not new; social media exacerbates it. Who’s to blame?
    • Millennials who have never been punched in the face for saying something.
      • Who want everything to be fair.
      • Who expect someone else will solve their problems and take care of them.
      • The result of a failed parenting strategy that tried to protect them from everything.
    • GenX who hasn’t stepped up to lead. 
      • Cynicism and snark are not leadership.
      • Being squeezed out because they don’t give a damn.
    • Baby Boomers who won’t take responsibility for the shitshow they have created.
      • Who trade in thinly veiled racism
      • Who amass power and refuse to relinquish it
      • Who make policy and legislation that erode our civil liberties
  • What can we do about it?
    • Teach your kids to resist blaming others
    • Help them see that there are real consequences for their actions
    • Model grace — forgiveness — and truth in all circumstances
    • Stop expecting to be offended by everything.
• Coming up on the next episode: 
  • Personal Truth, Political Truth, and Objective Truth: Why we stopped thinking critically about the “truth” being put before us.
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• Thanks and goodbye