Suzanne Harrington: Cancel culture literally cancels culture, it sucks

It’s immature, it stifles debate, it nails shut the lids of our echo chambers
Suzanne Harrington: Cancel culture literally cancels culture, it sucks

Cancel culture is unsustainable, and frankly a bit stupid. Can we cancel it?

So here we are again with cancel culture.

Turns out that not only was Philip Roth, the 20th-century literary giant, a raging misogynist but that his latest biographer, Blake Bailey, has recently been accused of sexually assaulting two women. No charges have been made against Bailey, and he has denied any wrongdoing. But in response to the allegations against him, his publishers have stopped selling and promoting his Roth biography.

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