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The "cancel culture" discourse is incoherent
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The "cancel culture" discourse is incoherent

We're using the term to mean at least thirteen different things - probably more.

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Carl Beijer
Jun 27, 2020
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I have no idea what is meant by “cancel culture” anymore. And I say this as someone who, over the years, has been extremely critical of some of the things that get associated with cancel culture. But here’s a short list of the ways that I see this term being used today:

1) Cancel culture is when large corporations, like Facebook and NBC, use their power …

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