It seems with cancel culture that we lack a means of restitution or restoration, and willingness to endure the discomfort of growth. We settle for snuffing out what we don't like. But there is no progress if we simply cancel what contradicts our beliefs or ideals. This, again, is white supremacy's methodology. Genuine racial reckoning must assume that change is still possible. The futility of cancel culture justice is that it wipes out the individual but leaves the system standing. To paraphrase sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, we end up with, for instance, misogyny without misogynists.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 155-156
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