Toward a non-constant cancellation function

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Toward a non-constant cancellation function

It now seems the switch of Cancel Culture has only two settings: everything is cancellable—including giving intellectual arguments against specific DEI policies, or teaching students about a Chinese filler word (“ne-ge”) that sounds a little like the N-word, or else nothing is cancellable—not even tweeting “normalize Indian hate” and “I was racist before it was cool,” shortly before getting empowered to remake the US federal government. How cou…