[Ads-l] Cancel Culture

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Aug 1 00:28:04 UTC 2020


Hence, "to cancel":

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-12/gone-with-the-wind-hattie-mcdaniel-john-ridley
:

I don't like 'Gone with the Wind,' but I hate see Hattie McDaniel canceled

JL

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 5:25 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> 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:
> >
> > Mashable.com Nov 18, 2017 BUSINESS 573 words Emma Hinchliffe
>
> Earlier in Twitter -- Oct 28, 2016:
>
> https://twitter.com/unicorninkk/status/792025338616418304
>
> "I hate cancel culture until I want to set things on fire! "
>
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