I'm not a fan of cancel culture but this isn't a great argument against it. The question isn't whether cancellation can achieve complete eliminationist objectiv

I'm not a fan of cancel culture but this isn't a great argument against it. The question isn't whether cancellation can achieve complete eliminationist objectives, but whether it can prove useful at the margins in terms of achieving your political goals. I think the answer is likely "yes to some extent", although people are predictably biased to over or underestimate the overall effectiveness depending on whether they see censorship working for or against their causes or net. My main pushback to cancel culture stuff is something of a "paradox of the paradox of tolerance" critique - that people are trying to use it as a cudgel to pretextually silence views that are well within the Overton window and that rather than this leading to the Overton window shifting (the desired effect) it will lead to pillarization, wherein multiple non-overlapping Overton windows will vie for cultural/political supremacy in ways that will not only lead (and have already lead) to very ugly conflicts, but involve massive amounts of time/energy being wasted on hot-button issues that in the grand scheme of things are just not very important.