[Ads-l] Cancel culture, cancel (2018)

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 11 20:00:53 UTC 2020


Here is a link to my post from last year:


Word/Phrase: cancel, cancel culture, cancellation culture

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2019-May/154643.html

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 1:46 PM <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

> I've found some earlier Tweets. Disregarding all the tweets about whether
> Boy George will "cancel Culture Club tour," the earliest Twitter thread
> that unambiguously refers to it is this:
>
> MMD @DougieFresh818
> What is Cancel culture? 🤔 @doctorchazz
> 2:22 PM · Feb 8, 2017·Twitter for iPhone
>
> chazz splash @chazzsplash
> Feb 8, 2017 Replying to  @DougieFresh818
> the new black twitter thing where people are "cancelled" for stating
> opinions or doing stuff BW twitter can't get jiggy wit
>
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> Baker, John
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>
> Here is a use of “cancel culture” on Twitter, as quoted in an article on
> Mashable.com (Nov. 18, 2017) that, in turn, was picked up by NewsBank’s
> Access World News database.  The article credits the quote to Shanita
> Hubbard (@msshanitarenee) November 18, 2017.  Note that “cancel culture” is
> in quotation marks.
>
> “Let’s talk “cancel culture.”  Personally, I am willing to give a lot of
> grace to young Black girls simply because the world doesn’t.  I wasn’t born
> reading bell hooks.  I had to grow.  So does Gabby Douglas.  And so do some
> of you.”
>
>
> John Baker
>
>
> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
> dave at WILTON.NET
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:52 AM
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> Subject: Cancel culture, cancel (2018)
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>
>
>
> The earliest citation for "cancel culture" that I have found is this one:
>
> "XXX Tentacion Still Had Room to Grow." Los Angeles Sentinel, 21 June
> 2018, A7.
>
> "Something that has become seemingly unavoidable in recent times is
> 'cancel culture.' To put it simply, 'cancel culture' is when people who
> have done or said something either recently or in the past get 'canceled'
> meaning people will not support said person in whatever future projects
> they have approaching. In a way it's a common-man's blacklisting.
>
> And there is this slightly earlier use of verb "to cancel" in this sense
> from a transcript of the Fox News show "Your World."
>
> Baia, Dion; Partsinevelos, Kristina; Timpf, Kat; Corke, Kevin; Payne,
> Charles; et al. "President Trump's Pardons; Unemployment Rate Drops; Trade
> War?; North Korea Summit Back On." Your World with Neil Cavuto, CQ Roll
> Call, 1 Jun 2018:
>
> "BAIA: Yes. I'm surprised they acted so quickly in canceling the show
> [i.e., 'Roseanne'], instead of like with 'House of Cards,' they kind of
> wrote Kevin out [sic] Spacey.
> "TIMPF: They canceled Kevin Spacey."
>
> I'm sure these can be antedated. The verb, in particular, is difficult to
> search for.
>
> --Dave Wilton
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