Brianna Morgan Source Entry #3

My Research Question: “What does Cancel Culture do to

Part 1: MLA Citation

(“Let’s Reframe Cancel Culture | Sarah Jones | TED”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8kr_V3fEGA

Part 2: Summary

The TED Talk “Let’s Reframe Cancel Culture” by Sarah Jones is about her earlier experiences being cancelled and cancel culture creating distractions for people. Sarah talks about being brutally attacked by strangers from the internet threatening her family wanting to cancel anyone associated with her film “sell/buy/date” Sarah mentions that she has been canceled for culture appropriation because in her film she was acting as different family members pretending to be different races. Sarah brings in characters she plays in her film “Sell/buy/date” representing each of her family members and representing people from different backgrounds with culture appropriation Lorraine, Nereida, and Bella. Sarah believes that the Cancel Culture is doing nothing but hurting people and attacking their personal lives. At cancel culture’s worst, it can hurt people who are trying to help by advocating for people who are afraid to speak for themselves without having to be cancelled for what they believe in creating disempowerment. Sarah stressed that the overall situation of inequality has not improved but has become worse. Sarah Jones concludes her TED Talk on cancel culture by trying to own any mistakes that we are making, and we do not have to do it alone by surrounding ourselves with trusted people who have self awareness by thinking of them as out personnel cancel consular.

Part 3: Rhetorical Analysis

     The genre of this source is TedTalk. Sarah Jones shows how she uses spirit, emotion, and logic to express her message and communicate her ideas to a crowd in her TED Talk. The speaker’s audience was people who had been cancelled or has done the cancelling, The tone was informative, objective and persuasive. Sarah uses logos by taking advantage of the differences in her cultural background and turned it into a film, using symbols to attract the audience. Sarah appeals her audience with ethos by telling research saying, “if we try looking honestly at ourselves and any bias or privileges, we may have can improve our quality of life.” The purpose is to inform the audience about how cancel culture can have a negative effect on people’s and how they continue to live they’re day to day lives. Ted talk is known for sharing knowledge/ideas through short stories. Sarah Jones is creditable because she’s a Tony Award-winning performer, writer, director, and producer Sarah Jones is best known for the chameleon-like ease with which she slips in and out of characters she produced a film called “Sell/Buy/Dat” which won awards at the Cleveland International Film Festival, SXSW Film Festival, and Impact Docs Award.

Part 4: Notable Quote

“As a Black woman from a multicultural background, my passion is to center all our unique stories—especially for those of us who have been most marginalized. Not just our trials, but also our laughter and joy, as reminders of our collective power, and that we are all more connected than we may realize.”(Sarah)

“If the definition of being cancelled is being silenced, excluded, disempowered, and disinvited from the longer conversation” (Sarah)

“Once people are cancelled how are we actually holding them accountable” (Sarah)

“Even alongside the painful inequities we are still mostly just people who are trying to do the right thing and if we are falling short of that banishment alone doesn’t actually solve no problem it just creates more hurt and angry people” (Sarah)