A Brief Pictorial History of “Cancel Culture”

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“Cancel Culture” is one of the right wing’s big frauds right now. They claim that doubting the worship of slaveowners, racists, imperialists, and others who chose to diminish other human beings is a bad thing for white people. That is an absolute untruth. Democracies need truths, and democracies need reconciliation, and truth and reconciliation require re-appraisal and the acknowledgment of responsibility for one’s actions — now or then.

But if we want to discuss “cancel culture” with our children we have a real opportunity to explore what real cancellation looks like.

July 9, 1776, left wing mob in New York City’s Bowling Green cancels King George III.

October 12, 1492 a mob from Spain and other European nations cancels the people and cultures of two continents.

1831, President Andrew Jackson begins the cancellation of 20,000 First Nations lives in order to make room for more Black slaves and their white…