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Finkelstein was cancelled by the right. Most prominently by Alan Deshowitz, lawyer for Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, etc. As a result, he was denied tenure and was never able to get a job as a professor, other than occasionally working as an adjunct. Really, I'm not sure how much more severe it could be without being something other than cancellation. He was cancelled long before his work on wokism - that topic was…
Thanks for the info about Finkelstein. > If these things don't constitute cancellation, nothing does. I think that is exactly my point: what you describe constitute the usual social interactions that always existed, and for which we don't need to invent a new word. And for which we certainly don't need to pretend it's a new "culture" and a new "danger". So, yeah, what you describe is real, but it is not "cancellation…
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#841You're conflating cancellation and cancel-culture