" Accountability and cancellation are not the same thing. ... Cancel culture does not leave space for people to make mistakes, disagree, change, and transform their behavior. It simply asks that they be canceled, as if they never existed. While canceling someone may feel good or may feel like a form of justice, it leaves us with an uncompassionate world where change can never happen.
... Accountability is not about blame, shame, or punishment, toward ourselves or others. It's about taking ownership of and responsibility for our actions and the impact of our actions and asking others to do the same for themselves too.
... Cancel culture cancels the person. Accountability culture asks the person to be accountable for their behaviors. "

― Layla F. Saad , Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor