Summary: <p>Over the last couple of weeks we’ve taken on some of the battles in the ongoing culture war. The granddaddy of them all is <em>cancel</em> culture. Michael Hobbes, co-host of the podcast You’re Wrong About, told us that there isn’t a situation that has been labeled a cancellation that couldn’t benefit from a more accurate word to describe what had happened. So and so was fired...such and such was met with disagreement on twitter. Cancel need not apply.</p> <p>He also explained on his own podcast with Sarah Marshall that there were a few pivotal events along the way that led to the term <em>cancel culture</em> becoming the moral panic that it is today. One of them was the 2015 release of Jon Ronson’s book “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.” A series of case studies of people who were canceled before we started using that word. </p> <p> </p>
