Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Cancel Culture. Incredibly, the Harper's letter spawned a bunch of people saying that there is no such thing as cancel culture. As Steven Pinker has argued, cancel culture has parallels with the Chinese cultural revolution and the European witch hunts.

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People individually want to feel like they created something. In cancel culture circles they "create" the mob destruction of another individual so they will do anything and twist everything to achieve that goal.