In this article I made a very serious semantic error. I mixed terms call out culture and cancel culture. The error resulted also in a wrong conclusion. Cancel culture make targetted
entity unable to defend their stand. Call out doesn't make it. Therefore I doubt reporting and
naming and shaming (after a trial) offenders (in that case traffic offenders) would cause hypocrisy. It still can cause anxiety resulted from the conflict tho.
Before I dig into the problem, I need to admit that to some extent I'm a hypocrite. Where I'm totally against and disgusted by call-out (or cancel) culture I may be responsible for participating in it. When I publish a video on YouTube of a driver (cyclists and pedestrians don't have number plates, therefore they stay anonymous) I kind of name and shame them, call them out, even if I'm fully sure they did something wrong, dangerous and worth pointing out. Tho I may have to rethink that, even while writing this entry.
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