When Republicans Attack 'Cancel Culture,' What Does It Mean?
3 years, 10 months ago

When Republicans Attack 'Cancel Culture,' What Does It Mean?

NPR  

When Republicans Attack 'Cancel Culture,' What Does It Mean? Rather, "cancel culture" is everywhere — as in, the phrase that inundates you lately when you listen to a political speech or turn on cable news. "If people say, 'Hey, I personally don't like this person, so I'm not going to buy the products,' that's one thing," said Yascha Mounk, a political scientist and creator of the newsletter Persuasion, which has decried so-called "cancel culture." But now, even to some who decry "cancel culture" as a problem, the phrase has been overstretched to defend people like Marjorie Taylor Greene who have expressed offensive and violent views. Cancel culture and the GOP's future With the constant repetition of the phrase "cancel culture," the idea of "cancellation" has strayed from what it once stood for.

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