MindMatters: Truth-Killing Cancel Culture Has Always Existed to Bolster the Status Quo

The cancel culture phenomenon has reared its rancorous and destructive head to such a degree that many holding non-mainstream points of view are made to think twice about sharing them in public. For cancel culture doesn't merely seek to respond to the differing perspectives with counterarguments in honest debate. It seeks to stifle the message completely and even, in the worst cases, annihilate the speaker himself. While we're aware of how this pathological and ideological weaponization of...