Do you believe in cancel culture?
NEW YORK — So you’ve probably read a lot about “cancel culture.” Or know about a new poll that shows a plurality of Americans disapproving of it. Or you may have heard about a letter in Harper’s Magazine condemning censorship and intolerance.
— “It means different things to different people,” says Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Recent examples of unpopular “cancellations” include the owner of a chain of food stores in Minneapolis whose business faced eviction and calls for boycotts because of racist social media posts by his then-teenage daughter, and a data analyst fired by the progressive firm Civis Analytics after he tweeted a study finding that nonviolent protests increase support for Democratic candidates and violent protests decrease it. Civis Analytics has denied he was fired for the tweet.
The letter drew signatories from many backgrounds and political points of view, ranging from the far-left Noam Chomsky to the conservative David Frum, and was a starting point for contradiction.This combination photo shows authors J.K. Rowling, left, and Salman Rushdie. Rowling, threatened legal action against a British news site that suggested she was transphobic after referring to controversial tweets she has written in recent months.
“The only speech these powerful people seem to care about is their own,” the author and feminist Jessica Valenti wrote in response to the Harper’s letter. “ is certainly not about free speech: After all, an arrested journalist is never referred to as ‘cancelled,’ nor is a woman who has been frozen out of an industry after complaining about sexual harassment. ‘Cancelled’ is a label we all understand to mean a powerful person who’s been held to account.
Others are only partially “cancelled.” Woody Allen, accused by daughter Dylan Farrow of molesting her when she was 7, was dropped by Amazon, his U.S. film distributor, but continues to release movies overseas. His memoir was cancelled by Hachette Book Group, but soon acquired by Skyhorse Publishing, which also has a deal with the previously “cancelled” Garrison Keillor.
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