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In the days since Charlie Kirk’s killing, conservatives have embraced a phenomenon they previously called toxic: cancel culture. The impulse to cancel some voices is understandable: Celebrating murder ...
The American media have vacillated since 2013 between “cancel culture isn’t real” and “cancel culture is a good thing.” This week, they have decided finally that it’s terrible. The only problem is ...
“Previously a voice for the canceled, they’re now the ones canceling,” intoned NBC News last month in a story, headlined “Trump and Republicans find themselves on the other side of the cancel culture ...
As some prominent conservatives target both ordinary people and public figures for their comments about Charlie Kirk, they are trying to rebrand a practice they once maligned. By Joseph Bernstein Mr.
Graphic of four people. some drawbacks of cancel culture include its tendency for hypervigilance and tunnel visioning. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. If you spend time on social media, you’re ...
Social media has changed the way we hold people accountable for their actions. A single tweet or video can spark outrage that spreads across the internet in hours, leading to public shaming, lost jobs ...
The Trump administration and the far right are engaging in dangerous, un-American tactics to suppress speech they dislike, cementing their control over institutions and the public by undermining First ...