Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'
Surprising how much press "cancel culture" gets these days <i>as if it's a new thing</i> or <i>as if it's a new thing being pushed on society by the left</i>. We've always had cancel culture. Some might remember the Dixie Chicks. How about the Rachael Ray ad that Dunkin Donuts pulled merely because it looked like an Arab scarf? Jerry Falwell came to prominence entirely based on his pushing of cancel culture. When I lived in North Carolina, one of the things that was repeated all the time was that a newspaper editor would lose his job for publishing a story with a positive spin on free trade. You can go back further to McCarthyism, Turing being prosecuted for being gay, and on and on.<p>Cancel culture remains a thing. Apparently now that folks aren't just being cancelled for supporting gay marriage, the free exchange of ideas is suddenly important. The outright hypocrisy of so many on this issue is the biggest story.<p>Edit: Forgot to mention this extreme example of cancel culture:<p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/professor-who-wore-hijab-us-christian-college-resigns" rel="nofollow">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/professor-who-wore-hijab-...</a><p>A professor was cancelled because she wore a hijab. There was no outrage at all from the usual suspects.