Kasparov addresses that literally in the first two paragraphs: > The search is on for new words for old ideas. “Cancel culture” and “woke” have become overused

Kasparov addresses that literally in the first two paragraphs: > The search is on for new words for old ideas. “Cancel culture” and “woke” have become overused and abused, part of a struggle to define one’s political opponents in the harshest possible way, to dismiss ideas as not only wrong or harmful, but intolerable. > As a nonnative English speaker, I am content to avoid rhetorical fashion and use older phrases I hear the term "cancelling" being used on the radio all the time by people that are obviously left leaning, here in California. Again, to go w/ childhood analogies, I'm not childish for saying the word "poop", but a person that reacts by giggling uncontrollably on the other hand...