Quote of the Day

To be sure, when leaders with fascist leanings gripe about cancel culture, they are griping about being held even slightly accountable in a democracy whose very principles they tout but effortlessly ignore.  Some powerful folk cry about the scourge of cancel culture when, for instance, they can no longer justify flying Confederate flags or praising Confederate statues as conscientious citizens bring them down.  When figures who abuse power are finally brought to justice because of the words or protests of the relatively powerless, then cancel culture may seem a good thing.  But those are the easy cases with straightforward results.

-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 148-149