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Since you invoked "US right", I'll assume you're not American. Criticism of "cancel culture" is not limited to the right wing. If you think it is, then you have
by vehemenz 5y ago
Since you invoked "US right", I'll assume you're not American. Criticism of "cancel culture" is not limited to the right wing. If you think it is, then you haven't done your homework.
- Nursie 5y agoThe article is about the US right, written by someone on the US right. The US right makes a lot of noise about it. The UK right does too. It's massively hypocritical given their history. This article points out that the fringes of the right have now started doing it, my contention is that the whole of the right has been doing it for decades.
- vehemenz 5y agoThat's fair, but it's worth acknowledging that many of the criticisms—especially the legitimate ones—come from the intellectual left. Especially given that most of us do not live in the right-wing extremist media ecosystem.
- the_only_law 5y ago> Sometimes I wonder if I should have become an academic. Really? HN recently has given me the opposite idea.