“Cancel Culture” Is Intellectually Lazy

Voices: The debate over ‘cancel culture’ in Utah is intellectually lazy

“We are so distracted by politicized interpersonal ‘cancel culture’ online that we fail to pay sufficient attention to the speech our own elected officials are preventing,” Rachel Robison-Greene writes in an op-ed.

“Cancel Culture” is Intellectually Lazy

by Rachel Robison-Greene Many of my heroes were canceled. Hume was repeatedly denied academic posts as a result of his reputation for skepticism and atheism.  Spinoza was excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam and cast out of the tribes of Israel with “all the curses of the covenant” for the positions he held.  Socrates was executed by the Athenians for “corrupting the youth”, which was really just engaging them in conversation an…