10/02/2025

How Cancel Culture Came for Everyone

This behavior is no longer opposed by either party

Ernest Owens knew we had lost the plot on cancel culture when his younger brother declared he had been "canceled" — by his teacher.

Owens, a Philadelphia-based journalist and the author of "The Case for Cancel Culture," was skeptical. Did you do what they said you did? he asked his brother. (Yes.) And did you sign a code of conduct saying you would not do the thing you did? (Also, yes.)

"You didn't get canceled," Owens told his brother. "You just didn’t do what you were supposed to do."

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