Crime and Banishment

While some abuse the term, a Cancel Culture does exist — and sometimes targets minor slips and legitimate opinions

Cathy Young
Arc Digital
Published in
10 min readJan 17, 2021

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“Dangerous Liaisons,” based on an 18th-century French novel, shows a different version of a cancel culture

The past year’s debate over a progressive “cancel culture” in America has flared up again, partly because some supporters of Donald Trump have been invoking the term to gripe about various penalties (legal and extralegal) for the recent…

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Cathy Young
Arc Digital

Russian-Jewish-American writer. Associate editor, Arc Digital; contributor, Reason, Newsday, The Forward etc. https://www.patreon.com/CathyYoung