J.K. Rowling, B.Weiss & N. Chomsky Among Dozens Sign Open Letter Calling for End to Cancel Culture

[Music Man]

129. Excellent post.

You won't get flack from me.

There are plenty of movable people who can be educated, not annihilated. Social media has become a performative place where people can post things to make themselves feel good and appear as part of the right group but without doing any really hard work to change the world for the better.

Here in Kentucky, there is an author named Wendell Berry who is a bit of a local legend and popular among progressives. Not a Democrat by any means, but he's been anti-war, anti-death penalty, environmentalist, was particularly critical of the Bush administration. Well anyway, he is trying to stop the removal of a mural on the University of Kentucky's campus that portrays (and seems to glorify) slavery, I believe because he is related somehow to the artist and is concerned that the work is going to be destroyed. I now have some acquaintances who have proclaimed that they are DONE with Wendell Berry.

I think it's silly, short-sighted, and lazy.