> While I’ve somehow made it this far without using the words “Israel” or “Palestine”, recent international events have uncovered instances of hypocrisy too. I

> While I’ve somehow made it this far without using the words “Israel” or “Palestine”, recent international events have uncovered instances of hypocrisy too. I have no interest in refereeing every incident, but cases like this — in which editor-in-chief Michael Eisen was fired from the life sciences journal eLife for retweeting an Onion article that expressed sympathy with Palestinians — fall under any definition of “cancel culture”. I appreciate the focus of the essay, but extremely strange to merely equate the current events at Harvard et al with "cancel culture". When a train runs over my leg, it falls under any definition of an "oopsie", but that doesn't mean an "oopsie" quite exhausts the force and meaning of it. Sure students are intolerant of certain speakers, but we at least got to square that with the apparent fact that when students (and teachers) find themselves on the "wrong" side of an event, they arent merely canceled, or barred from speaking, but harassed, threatened, arrested, and doxxed with apparently no recourse at all. I think these students will certainly learn a lesson, but perhaps not the one Nate has in mind.