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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here are instances of "cancelling culture" and "cancelation culture"

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https://twitter.com/eric_muhumuza/status/840555110757519360?s=20
Replying to @BeingEdna
oh thats not what i meant tho, what she said was wrong n should be called
out, i was talking about this new "cancelling culture"
8:28 AM · Mar 11, 2017·Twitter for Android
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https://twitter.com/BeingEdna/status/840556660070469632?s=20
Edna Ninsiima @BeingEdna
Replying to @eric_muhumuza
hmm...I see. Perhaps I misunderstood your tweet. What's "cancelation
culture" again?
8:34 AM · Mar 11, 2017·Twitter for Android
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https://twitter.com/eric_muhumuza/status/840561871161819137
Eric Muhumuza @eric_muhumuza
Replying to @BeingEdna
trying to kick someone out of a movt just cause they said one wrong
thing..the "i never wanna hear anything from chimamanda" pipo
8:55 AM · Mar 11, 2017
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 3:00 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here is a link to my post from last year:
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> Word/Phrase: cancel, cancel culture, cancellation culture
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2019-May/154643.html
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> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 1:46 PM <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
>> Baker, John
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:46 PM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Cancel culture, cancel (2018)
>>
>> 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
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Cancel culture, cancel (2018)
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>> The earliest citation for "cancel culture" that I have found is this one:
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>> "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."
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>> 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:
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>> "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."
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>> I'm sure these can be antedated. The verb, in particular, is difficult to
>> search for.
>>
>> --Dave Wilton
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