If congresswoman Liz Cheney qualifies as a victim of “cancel culture,” that begs a long-overdue question: what meaning does the term have?
It was an early moment when run-of-the-mill public shaming became a supercharged, social-media-driven process by which ideological norms are enforced. Sacco’s joke, in her mind an acknowledgment of the massive gulf in health disparities between white westerners and Black Africans, was taken even by its most charitable interpretation as a too-glib dismissal of the horrific realities faced by the latter.
After protests erupted in 2020 over the police killing of George Floyd, in some places turning violent,by Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow that demonstrates how during the 1960s, while honest-to-God riots resulted in a decrease in the vote share for Democratic candidates in the following election, non-violent protests actually increased it. An uproar ensued, with liberal critics alleging that Shor was indifferent or even hostile to today’s racial justice protests.
“It’s relatively elite people who are coordinating with each other, and I think that’s true in my case,” Shor continued. “Institutions like thesomewhatmore liberal? … They’re trying to create a new norm, and the way you create new norms is by punishing people.” The power to set norms belongs to such mobs, in a symbiotic relationship with those who would benefit from their efforts. Increasingly, and disturbingly, they team up to wield it against people who are decidedly not in positions of influence., an employee of a power company who, in a bizarre fashion, was baited into flashing a purportedly white supremacist hand signal.
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