What exactly has the cancel mob ever built?--By James Freeman
- "To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are.” That’s the headline on a New York Post op-ed from University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, who writes of contemporary cancel culture: It’s happening not because anybody voted for it, but because a small but determined and vicious minority is bullying people to go along, relying on cowardice and groupthink to achieve ends that could never happen via majority vote: How do you think Dr. Seuss would have done in a referendum?
- ...And Mr. Reynolds is urging more clear and candid expression: Historically, it’s not the good guys who are out burning books and censoring speech. It isn’t the caring, empathetic people who try to destroy lives based on something someone said years ago, often while young, often taken out of context. It isn’t the good guys who take undisguised glee at the ruining of lives, families and careers. You know who does these things? Horrible, awful people.
- University of Iowa law student Luke Kennedy concludes: Cancellations of figures like Dr. Seuss will continue to succeed so long as the only political group that feels free to share its opinions is the far left. This guarantees it will sound the loudest, even though it isn’t representative. Even worse, the group’s ideology holds both that words are violence and that silence is violence; only echoing its words is acceptable...Read all!
