Cancel culture leaves us adrift

I’ve had a hard time in recent months remembering what the more-or-less Millennial term “cancel culture” means, and sometimes have to look it up: “the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive.”
It’s basically old-fashioned scarlet-letter shaming, plus social media.
But I think “call-out culture” makes more sense for that —