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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[–]Nelumbo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

do you seriously think charlie hebdo was massacred by the same people who are boycotting jk rowling because she said only women can menstruate

[–]King_Brutus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

No, why would anything I just said imply that?

[–]Nelumbo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

then why are you bringing up terror acts by al-qaida? chipit is obsessed with the nonsensical idea that only leftists are capable of censorship, and he asked for an example of modern right wing censorship, which I provided. I don't see how your comment about charlie hebdo is supposed to be a refutation of that. unless it was meant to be a joke.

[–]King_Brutus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

unless it was meant to be a joke.

[–]Nelumbo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

alright, it's hard to tell what is meant as a joke when there's so many genuine neo-nazis on this website.

[–]King_Brutus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Getting back to the point I will say that modern day leftist censorship is far more commonplace (twitter mobs, MSM outlets, reddit, etc etc) and SUCCESSFUL than right wing censorship if we're exclusively talking about social media "cancelling".

I hadn't even heard about the link you provided and would never have heard about it because most people don't care about christians getting upset over things unless it's the butt of a joke (see "war on Christmas"). Almost every group has principles and will act in opposition to actors who go against those principles, but in modern day there's a huge wave of censorship against the right.