{"id":9093,"date":"2022-10-19T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2022-10-19T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:50:09","slug":"for-many-americans-cancel-culture-is-self-inflicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9093","title":{"rendered":"For Many Americans, Cancel Culture Is Self-Inflicted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;&#8221;Social pressure to have the &#8216;right&#8217; opinion is pervasive in America today,&#8221; notes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/populace.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Populace<\/a>, a social-research organization, in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/59153bc0e6f2e109b2a85cbc\/t\/62fd07b49271c657d243505d\/1660749762686\/Private+Opinion+in+America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>&nbsp;published this summer. &#8220;In recent years, polls have consistently found that most Americans, across all demographics, feel they cannot share their honest opinions in public for fear of offending others or incurring retribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One important, but underappreciated, consequence of a culture of censorship is that it can lead individuals not only to self-silence, but also publicly misrepresent their own private views (what scholars call&nbsp;<em>preference falsification<\/em>),&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kTQSUyU26d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/08\/24\/for-many-americans-cancel-culture-is-self-inflicted\/\">For Many Americans, Cancel Culture Is Self-Inflicted<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;For Many Americans, Cancel Culture Is Self-Inflicted&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/08\/24\/for-many-americans-cancel-culture-is-self-inflicted\/embed\/#?secret=mZbMs3sDdu#?secret=kTQSUyU26d\" data-secret=\"kTQSUyU26d\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;Social pressure to have the &#8216;right&#8217; opinion is pervasive in America today,&#8221; notes Populace, a social-research organization, in a report published this summer. &#8220;In recent years, polls have consistently found that most Americans, across all demographics, feel they cannot share their honest opinions in public for fear of offending others or incurring retribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One important, but underappreciated, consequence of a culture of censorship is that it can lead individuals not only to self-silence, but also publicly misrepresent their own private views (what scholars call preference falsification),&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cancel-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}