A Review of ‘Cancel Culture’ Edited by Kevin Donnelly
by Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch:
Wilkinson Publishing, 2021.
This new volume on cancerous cancel culture is essential reading:
Just as I started writing this review, I happened upon a news item about enraged parents who discovered that their boys at a Melbourne secondary school had been labelled as “oppressors” for being, male, white and Christian. Their crime was simply to exist and to fall afoul of the leftist lynch mob. As Rowan Atkinson recently said:
The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society. It becomes a case of either you’re with us or against us. And if you’re against us, you deserve to be ‘cancelled.’ It’s important that we’re exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn. So it is scary for anyone who’s a victim of that mob and it fills me with fear about the future.
But it is not just ‘Mr Bean’ who is quite concerned about this issue – numerous voices are now speaking out about this, and a number of books from overseas have appeared on the topic, including the 2020 volume by Alan Dershowitz, Cancel Culture, and the soon to be released Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael Knowles.
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