[Ads-l] Cancel Culture

[Jonathan Lighter]

My interpretation is more specific: 'a movement to erase societal
references that can be interpreted as offensive to one or more minority or
other interested groups.'

JL

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:26 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> I think an important newish term is "cancel culture," meaning a culture of
> public shaming.  The earliest I see in LexisNexis for this term is the
> following:
>
>   *
> Simone Biles defends one teammate after another's misguided comment about
> sexual assault <
> https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&crid=20ad3ca8-e5cc-4a43-8806-c4acbadb46f6&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A5R2D-T6R1-JBCN-43NM-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=401989&pdteaserkey=sr4&pditab=allpods&ecomp=gxdsk&earg=sr4&prid=5bf88536-5cb8-49b7-99d4-e7e95cc4be94
> >
>
> Mashable.com Nov 18, 2017 BUSINESS 573 words Emma Hinchliffe
>
> ... seemed to be a learning experience for her. Let's talk " cancel
> culture ." Personally, I am willing to give a lot of grace ...<
> https://advance.lexis.com/search?crid=5bf88536-5cb8-49b7-99d4-e7e95cc4be94&pdsearchterms=%22cancel%20culture%22&pdtypeofsearch=urlapi&pdfiltertext=urn%3Ahlct%3A5%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A15%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A3%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A2%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A4%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A1%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A10%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A16%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A14%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A8%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A13%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A12%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A9%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A6%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A7%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A18%2Curn%3Ahlct%3A11&pdsearchtype=dynand&pdmfid=1000516&pdisurlapi=true#
> >
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> There is a little bit of usage of the words "cancel culture" in LexisNexis
> prior to that, but I think those occurrences are coincidental and have
> different meanings.
>
>
> I have not attempted to trace the parent use of "cancel" as a verb meaning
> to publicly shame someone.
>
>
> Fred Shapiro
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