St. Vincent on cancel culture: “Find me the person who has lived a flawless life”

https://www.nme.com/news/music/st-vincent-cancel-culture-father-prison-daddys-home-2915711

St. Vincent has criticised the idea of cancel culture and social media-shaming, claiming that we should be able to use information “in a way that causes less human suffering, [rather] than more”.

Admitting that to be flawed is to be human, Clark said: “I don’t know who among us has lived a flawless life. Find me the person who has lived a flawless life, or a life without struggle. I don’t think that’s possible.”

On her childhood in Dallas, Texas, where she grew up surrounded by religion as “the predominant mythology of the place”, Clark said that she found herself feeling “anger toward the particular brand of it that was ambient” and “a lot of people disguising cruelty as piety,” admitting “I have a real knee-jerk reaction to that”.