Yes, Ross Douthat is a conservative columnist, but does that mean he can be totally ignored? I don’t think so, at least not this week, when he devotes his New York Times space to a discussion of “cancel culture” (CC), and provides as good a definition of the phenomenon as I’ve seen. He also admits, in his list of “ten theses” about CC, that the Right does it too, but also that “a liberal society should theoretically cancel less frequently than its rivals.” I agree with most of what he says but strongly disagree with his thesis that the Right barely engages in creating CC at all.
Read it by clicking on the screenshot:
I’ve put Douthat’s “theses” in bold, and indented a few excerpts from his article. My own take on his points is flush left:
- Cancellation, properly understood, refers to an attack on someone’s employment and reputation by…
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