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Cancel Culture Makes Everything Look Worse Than It Is

Cancel culture is the left’s version of broken windows policing

Meghan Daum
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6 min readJan 8, 2020

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Illustration: Katie Carey

TThe end of 2019 saw several conflicting reports about the severity — and even legitimacy — of cancel culture. It’s bad. It’s not that bad. It’s real. It isn’t that real. Imposed largely by social-media-based arbiters of…

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Meghan Daum
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Weekly blogger for Medium. Host of @TheUnspeakPod. Author of six books, including The Problem With Everything. www.theunspeakablepodcast.com www.meghandaum.com