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I've been canceled twice. Here's why I defend 'Cancel Culture'

I've been canceled twice. Here's why I defend 'Cancel Culture'

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Virginia Heffernan
Oct 26, 2021
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Merchant of Venice. Act IV, Scene I. "The Jew shall have all justice". Henry J. Haley
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Having been run out of a job on a rail by angry leftists in 2012, and having endured an onslaught of death threats from the furious right just this past February, I’m an unlikely writer to stump for cancel culture. Not that anyone cheers for the cancelatorium. Like “political correctness,” “cancel culture” is a strawman c…

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