Let’s Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability | Sonya Renee Taylor | TEDxAuckland

[@annieel3938]

This is a great talk at so many levels, including just common conflict resolution let alone the major political and social issues she is talking about. I am a new fan of this woman!

[@melindap5338]

Thank you for this and thank you for who you are. You are sharing the message.

[@skippettit4014]

Thank you, Sonya. I appreciate your candor and insight. Your presentation is insightful on many levels to build confidence, insight, sensitivity, and resilience.

[@WhoIsGreatDane]

Thank you Sonya, for everything you said!❤❤

[@paisleylfc6367]

This was an amazing talk, thank you.

[@byronjones9299]

This is Absolutely One Beautiful Woman.

[@CameronAllOneWord]

I was expecting this video to make me roll my eyes but I actually liked it quite a bit. I'm all for accountability I just don't think blacklisting should be the punishment for everybody who's ever done or said anything wrong at any point in their lives is all. With the exception of guys like Cosby, Weinstein, or Epstein who were repeatedly doing awful things for a long time I think everybody who shouldn't be in prison for life deserves a chance to make up for wrongs that they've done. I'm OK with people being punished but so much more good can come out of allowing there to be a path for redemption otherwise why admit when you've done something wrong and seal your fate of being blacklisted?

[@legendarysayainbroly5963]

Ok I agree for once cancel culture is creating bullys

[@joshmcgootermier2301]

Thank you for this message. The two are very different things, even when some claim they are the same.

[@luciesupstairs]

Love this! The spectrum of accountability 🙌🏽💞🙏🏽 thank you

[@mariaelenadelvalle617]

I love you Sonya Renee Taylor! Thank you for the gift of you! Palante con Self Radical love!

[@annaw.7504]

LOVE this omg

[@richardtaylor6187]

Cancel the Cancel Culture.

[@shelly-annmol6158]

Yes THIS is the TEDtalk I've been looking for 🙌🏽 BRAIN RESILIENCE 💯✨ We do have info at our fingertips, so we should be able to TRUST each other to be ACCOUNTABLE to live together in the world 💞

[@melissanievera]

"As a woman of color, as a person who lives at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities, challenging oppression is an inherently threatening activity."

[@mrgamerguy321]

🥰 a group of victims 😂

[@johannatheone]

Love love love!! 👏

[@KL0098]

Imagine going through life not beliving in altruism...

[@jamesryan8513]

I need those earings

[@enzopalma5376]

LMAO

[@BBrunnel]

1 minute in... love her already

[@TD-op6mr]

Thank you Sonya Renee Taylor!

[@postpunkhah]

"Me and my toe have no damn time for that!"

[@juliepalmsboyer]

Fabulous talk. Thank you.

[@owlnyc666]

The amagidila can be over ridden by the prefrontal cortex. Calling on not calling out. Treat don't punish. Compassionate Culture not Cancel Culture. 🤔😉😏

[@HouseJawn]

They'll probably cancel her for suggesting this

[@alisverybepic2807]

I love Ted talks

[@darynadixon8759]

👑😇💞🥰🌍💜♦️💎♥️💙🖤🤎🤍💚✝️😘

[@francesbernard2445]

Writing when it gets close to a deadline can be an anxious full of sweat experience. Has nothing to do with being called out by someone else and way more to do with the process of critical thinking. The writing process for the best writers among us always involves at least 3 editing of a work sessions no matter how short of a work it is. Has nothing to do with a lack of self-love while it has everything to do with the fear of god when choosing to stand up for ourselves or for someone else too without using violence when doing so. Like when that blind man was leaning on his cane while it was sitting on my toe. Perhaps because I whispered to him in that bus that his cane was hurting my toe so that no one else knew about it it made a good enough first impression when later through only coincidence his son was introducing me to him as his girl friend.

[@MarioGreco]

There’s a number of flaws I found with this video. 1. “Calling-on” still leads to a mob of people shaming a person and wishing for their career and public demise. No chance for growth nor redemption. 2. Accountability culture leads to fear of ever making mistakes, which leads people to err on the side of caution by silencing themselves and thusly heightening their amygdala - especially people looking to grow and learn. You cannot learn without being willing to make mistakes. 3. She is insinuating that saying something “wrong” is akin to stepping on her toes. False. Words only have power if we give it that power. If we conflate words with physical harm, people are led to respond to words with actual physical violence; which is exactly what we see from “unofficial” groups like antifa. 4. If we want to have a better world, we need to focus more on respect, not “accountability”. If you were bothered by something someone said, and you feel comfortable with talking to them, then tell them. If that person is respectful, they’ll say “my bad, I’ll do my best to keep that in mind”. But in no way is such a confrontation at the same level as actually physically harming them. And in no way should that person be held in contempt like as if they killed someone. 5. People have a right to have a private conversations with specific people where they don’t have to worry about the public somehow evesdropping on their conversation and taking their words out of context. In private conversations, people have the right to be as flippant, off-handed, and politically incorrect as they want, because the specific people they’re speaking to, understand the context and personhood of the speaker. Same thing applies to comedy shows. The context and the audience matter. To claim that all speech private or public should be held accountable to public scrutiny in any context, is to sympathize with mob rule, censorship, privacy breaching, spying, and at worst, centralized spying and authoritarianism. 6. If you refute my arguments with “wElL yOuRe A pRiVlEdGeD wHiTe CiShEt MaLe” I will laugh at you.

[@ameliavincent1]

Ok so you just massively missed the nuance of the points that she made. She's talking accountability AND respect. She's talking doing the work of loving ourselves so that we DON'T feel attacked when someone needs us to be accountable. You also contradicted yourself by pointing out the amygdala activation of being held accountable (which she talked about at length), and then dismissing the physical response that it produces. Fight and flight responses are very physical. I'm responding for my own benefit and don't care if you "laugh" at me. But these nuances are what people miss and continue to act like unloving pricks to themselves and others.

[@MarioGreco]

@@ameliavincent1 you massively missed my point, actually. If our first priority is to avoid potentially offending even one person, then people will be discouraged from speaking their mind, and learning will be stagnated. This is a fear-based lifestyle, EVEN IF we love ourselves and not take offence to someone “holding us to account”. Unless we’re talking about threats, harassment, or defamation; if mere words activate your amygdala, then that’s a you problem. Offensive words are in no way akin to physically harming someone. These nuances are what people miss and continue to act like unloving pricks to themselves and others.

[@ameliavincent1]

@@MarioGreco Ok you're clearly very set on missing the point and going in circles lol. Enjoy your life, or don't, I truly don't care.

[@MarioGreco]

@@ameliavincent1 I hoped for more from this exchange, what a shame. Enjoy priding yourself in your stagnance; in the meantime I'll keep moving forward and oppose those who stand in the way of my learning. Good day.

[@mendalz]

Fair points mate 🤙🏽

[@ElementalX100]

Did she Just admitted she violated someone?!

[@jenniferyoung2215]

She said her “violation” wasn’t as big as she thought it was. He used a very strong word for a situation that needed to be validated, but probably wasn’t violent like we’d typically use it for

[@mattv39]

its funny bc with that comment you literally proved her point

[@ktchong5800]

McCarthyism is the first and original cancel culture. Conservatives and Republicans invented the cancel culture with McCarthyism in the 1950s, by targeting people whom they deemed as having the incorrect ideologies and thoughts. People literally lost their jobs, families and lives and went to prison when conservatives targeted them and deemed them as “communists” or “socialists”. Conservatives and Republicans made it not permissible to think in certain ways or believe in certain things: it was basically thought control aka the cancel culture. As recent as 2020, ABC News suspended aka cancelled correspondent David Wright when the right-winged Project Veritas exposed him as a socialist, so the McCarthy "cancel culture" on the right is very much still alive after 70+ years. Conservatives and Republicans are still perpetuating that same cancel culture for 70+ years. Even today they love to throw around the “communist” and “socialist” labels (and even “liberal” as a slur,) still trying to cancel people with the same old tired tactics from the McCarthy era. They are crying and whining now only because the cancel table has finally turned on them. However, they want to pretend McCarthyism has never happened and the McCarthy culture has not persisted until today. They have been dishing out the cancel culture for 70+ years, but they can't take it themselves when other people are finally starting to doing back to them.

[@landonhernandez8529]

White. Straight. Awesome.

[@docsavage7969]

Kyle Rittenhouse just started this with the Media Accountability Project. Get ready....

[@joycescanlan7199]

Head like a robbers dog Apologies to all the robbers dogs out there

[@Mike-rh9zs]

imagine wearing a shirt that said White, Straight, Dope. Lol. This lady is literally insane and has zero touch with reality.

[@mrscavayeah7453]

I’m not trolling id like to hear more of what you have to say.

[@robertacranston8411]

She's trying to get people to be reasonable and have conversations. How exactly is she out of touch with reality?

[@Mike-rh9zs]

@@robertacranston8411 she's the definition of critical race theory... There's zero reality that exists in this woman's life. If all you want to do is talk about race you're the problem with the world rn. Lol

[@robertacranston8411]

@@Mike-rh9zs, OK, white male.

[@cronchybo]

@@Mike-rh9zs critical race theory is a college level law class that talks about how race and racism interacts with law. how is she doing that?

[@timothykramer2551]

My wife is a white queen...

[@someonenotcringy2064]

So is she for or against cancel culture