LOL Nothing Matters

I can't claim I'm any different, necessarily, but you'd think that everything going on at the moment would make some of our Great Public Thinkers get off their usual bullshit for a minute or two, but instead they're all complaining that if they do too much racism they might lose their extremely lucrative barely-show jobs. Though they never seem to lose them.

This "cancel culture" stuff was boring in 1993 when they called it "political correctness."

This tweet is an exquisite example of how those who decry “cancel culture” want to constrain, not expand inquiry and debate.

O’Connor is not being cancelled. She is being considered in a new context. Who benefits when you refuse to ask new questions or consider new information? https://t.co/hIVKAPnapp

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) July 25, 2020

Why can't we manage to cancel any of these fuckers? How does David Frum still walk free?