How does cancel culture work, exactly?

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If you’re one of the more outspoken people out there, like me, you’ll have heard of this “cancel culture” happening in the past 2–3 years, seemingly out of nowhere.
Whether it has affected people like James Gunn and Kevin Hart for tweets they made years prior, or Eminem for random lyrics, people mostly seem to target celebs and/or artists, for some reason. Maybe they’re more in the spotlight?

But one thing I don’t see, even if this cancel culture thing is ridiculous, is why isn’t anybody canceling politicians?

In the UK, or England rather, you have some of the most racist, xenophobic, and whatever words you may want to find, politicians around.
I’m not going to mention the former PM, Boris Johnson, because everybody knows about him and it didn’t see to do him any harm.
But I will mention the about the former and current Home Office MPs.

First up you have Priti Patel, a woman who was born in the UK from immigrant parents, who she herself has said that with the current immigration laws that she’s trying to put in place, her parents wouldn’t have been allowed in. I don’t know about you, but I find that baffling.
As you all know, there’s been a war in Ukraine, and all countries have opened their arms to refugees.
But with England, it seems a bit…