“Cancel Culture”

I was just fired from my job at The Seattle Times after defending Hitler. The only problem is, I never defended Hitler. In fact, my family was hunted by the Nazis; my grandfather was a Nazi killer who later almost died in a concentration camp; and some of my best journalistic work has been exposing neo-Nazi lies. But if you want to hear a story about the intolerance in our country’s “most tolerant” city and the erosion of civil discourse in American life, read on.

The music video for Jason Aldean’s country song “Try That in a Small Town” has become a massive hit in the wake of a woke backlash that accused the song of evoking racism.

Despite CMT pulling the video from its rotation, the music video for Aldean’s song has increased viewership by a whopping 999 percent.

The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage for suggesting that Coutts cut ties with him only because he lacked the funds needed to hold an account.

Simon Jack, the business editor, wrote that the former Ukip leader had lost his account with the bank because he had failed to borrow or invest at least £1 million or hold £3 million in savings. His report played down Farage’s vindicated claim that the closure was driven by his political views.

His lawyers call Toronto psychologist and bestselling author Jordan Peterson a colourful and controversial “online provocateur” whose YouTube videos and tweets are liked by millions.

Peterson’s detractors see him as a showboater who uses controversy to make money, espouses anti-feminist and anti-trans views and spreads misinformation about areas he knows little about; his climate change commentary on a podcast last year was derided by scientists as “stunningly ignorant.”

As street violence in North America rises, so does the risk of public figures facing baseless accusations of racism. The latest case: country singer Jason Aldean says he’s been unfairly accused of writing a “pro-lynching” song in “Try That In A Small Town.”

🚨🚨🚨 @Jason_Aldean here’s the infamous video everyone is talking about – Try that in a small town… It’s a truly an awesome song!!! Show your support and retweet🔁pic.twitter.com/jnIjjgpZUM

— 🌟🇺🇸Nancy Hamm🇺🇸🌟 (@nancy_hamm1) July 20, 2023

Nigel Farage delivered a stark warning about the threat from ‘woke’ banks tonight after going public with a dossier showing Coutts axed him for not being ‘inclusive’.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, the prominent Eurosceptic warned that his experience is just the tip of the iceberg.

Vowing to ‘fight all the way’ against the Natwest-owned firm, Mr Farage said people needed to realise that ‘if they can cancel me, they can cancel you’.

The success of ‘Fast Car’ is being memory-holed to fit an identitarian narrative.

The year 1988 feels like a very long time ago to anyone who remembers it, and ancient history to anyone who doesn’t. I turned 20 halfway through it. So I’m afraid whatever travails and traumas I was undergoing have now been blotted out by the middle-aged person’s rose-tinted remembrance of being young. The grass was greener then, my memory tells me, unreliably.

When people make their personal lives public, they hand them to the Left. Cancel culture is nourished by consuming the others’ lives.

Cancel culture, like most of our contemporary cultural revolution, began in China.

Over several years, rural Chinese migrated to massive mega-cities whose impossible population densities were matched by the growing interconnection of the internet. While three quarters of China’s population is now on the internet, in 2006 it grew by a quarter to encompass only 10%.

In these cramped quarters, physical and social, there was no room for the individual.

Sheree Di Vittorio was left ‘baffled’ when she was dismissed from AutoTrader the day after CBC published an article smearing her for speaking out at the school board meeting.

A surreal tale of one man’s campaign against an academic field

An online war, led by a British national named Oliver D. Smith, has targeted the field of intelligence research. His campaign, abetted by a user-controlled website’s negligent policies, has led to devastating professional consequences for a number of academics working in this area. Most people are accustomed to online disinformation and cancel culture, but Smith is unique for combining both weapons against his perceived enemies.