The left should just say they love cancel culture and come to terms with it.
Cancel culture makes for an excellent political weapon-it's a great way to neutralize political opponents and simultaneously signal your own virtue.
My point is that inevitably both sides will dabble in cancel culture because it's effective.
Conservatives, the emergent argument goes, either complain about cancel culture only cynically or hypocritically because they're content-even excited-to watch people like Wilder suffer for wrong think.
The mounting leftist consensus that conservative criticism of cancel culture is categorically cynical or hypocritical is absurd, reflexive, and facile.
Of course, the Enlightened Consensus among Reasonable Observers held that Wilder and Jones were victims of cancel culture.
While we're canceling cancel culture, the mostly progressive cancellers should recognize they're also fighting a libertarian culture order with relaxed standards of behavior.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/25/conservatives-arent-cancel-culture-hypocrites-but-the-left-is/
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