Earlier this week, 150 writers, academics, and activists signed an open letter condemning cancel culture that was published in Vanity Fair. J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, Gloria Steinem, Garry Kasparov, and Malcolm Gladwell signed the letter denouncing "a vogue for public shaming and ostracism" that leads to "disproportionate punishments." Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has inserted herself into the conversation by insinuating that cancel culture does not exist. "People who are actually 'cancelled' don't get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets," AOC tweeted on Thursday night. "The term 'cancel culture' comes from entitlement – as though the person complaining has the right to a large, captive audience,& one is a victim if people choose to tune them out. Odds are you're not actually cancelled, you're just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked." https://www.theblaze.com/news/aoc-cancel-culture-doesnt-exist AOC is the gift to the R's that keeps on giving. Course I generally prefer to enact my own cancel culture on her and tune her out but occasionally just love to point out her BS.
I think there is money to be made from Cancel Culturers. I am developing an app that uses the camera in cell phones. When you aim it at an object, image, statue, etc, it tells you if you should be offended. I will call it the WOKE app.
All she needs to do is visit one of many left-leaning websites that discuss celebrities - especially when they run afoul of Liberal GoodThink - and she'll find out that Cancel Culture is quite alive and well. Granted, it seems to call Twitter home but it's pretty widespread. I think the latest targets of Cancel Culture are Terry Crews and JK Rowling. Maybe she thinks the "Cancel Culture" is the part of the garbage disposal that gets rid of mold?