To Cancel Or Not To Cancel

Falsehoods and bad behavior must be canceled to make room for robust debate

There seems to be some confusion about what is known as “cancel culture.”

Virtually every time a person’s ideas or words are shot down, someone from the other side yells “stop canceling me.” People run to Facebook and Twitter to decry the atmosphere where anyone with a different opinion gets pummeled into oblivion if they don’t agree with this or that viewpoint.

I agree with Bernstein in principle, but here’s where it can get dangerous.

Peddy was merely implementing a Texas law, which was passed out of hysteria, to shut down attempts to teach accurate history regarding descendants of slaves and how deeply systemic racism has impacted Black and Brown Americans. The law requires teaching opposing views on “widely debated and currently controversial” issues, although the irony of the law is that never before has Texas been concerned with teaching an accurate history of Black Americans in this country. Only when the status quo was challenged was it “controversial” and suddenly important to make sure we heard it…

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