> Credited to Black users of Twitter, cancellation has been said to share a lineage with midcentury civil rights boycotts, insofar as it enables those with litt

> Credited to Black users of Twitter, cancellation has been said to share a lineage with midcentury civil rights boycotts, insofar as it enables those with little political power to litigate perceived injustices in the more accessible forum of popular culture (the cancellation court of public opinion, if you will). When you can get almost every giant multinational corporation to repeat your message and give huge donations to your cause, and when the supposedly most racist president in recent US history was barely able (or just wasn't willing) to make a dent in immigration numbers, do you really have "little political power"?