> Galileo was a progressive flouting conventional regression—most (not all) whiners about cancel culture are regressive flouting conventional progression. > If

> Galileo was a progressive flouting conventional regression—most (not all) whiners about cancel culture are regressive flouting conventional progression. > If you think about the broader context in which this article was written you really have to wonder what the so-called “unconventional views” being defended are. As many views that are positive, progressive, evidence based, and generally in service of a more equitable world are in this period finally reaching the status of being “orthodoxy”. Replace "whiners about cancel culture" with "counter revolutionaries" or "reactionary forces" and this could have been written during the stalinist purges or the cultural revolution.