Finally, A Comedian Actually Got Cancelled

I’ve long insisted “cancel culture” doesn’t exist. Then Will Smith smacked Chris Rock and changed the game.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Published in
4 min readMar 28, 2022

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An open hand, the instrument of Cancellation.
Behold its power. Photo by Jeremy Yap on Unsplash

Friends: In the past year, I have used this space, often, to opine on “cancel culture.” You’ve heard me say that it’s not real; that it’s a distraction from more serious issues; that “cancellation” is just a word…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.