Friday, July 10, 2020

Some Public Figures Now Want To Withdraw Their Signatures Decrying The 'Cancel Culture' Because They Fear They Will Be 'Cancelled'


Summit News: Fearing Cancellation, Some Withdraw Signatures From Open Letter Decrying Cancel Culture

Some of the public figures who signed an open letter decrying the rise of cancel culture retracted their support, presumably fearing they too might become a victim of it.

As we highlighted yesterday, 150 intellectuals, authors and activists including Noam Chomsky, Salman Rushdie and JK Rowling signed the letter, which was published by Harpers Magazine.

The letter criticized how “the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted” as a result of “an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty.”

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WNU Editor: You just cannot make this up. The Harper's letter is here .... A Letter on Justice and Open Debate (Harper's Magazine).

3 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

Someone needs to just delete twitter. And facetube too.

Anonymous said...


Indeed, Russ. Twitter. Home of the 7 word nothing. From what I have experienced a site for oneupmanship.

Unknown said...

They've been threatened. CommieNazi style. Keep ducking 🧐