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The Right Has Embraced the Cancel Culture It Claimed to Hate

https://jacobin.com/2025/05/rozos-nyu-cancel-culture-israel/

> NYU’s decision to withhold Logan Rozos’s degree for denouncing genocide in Gaza in his graduation speech is the latest example of right-wing cancel culture. After criticizing it on the Left, conservatives have learned to rally “woke” mobs of their own.

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Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
https://scheerpost.com/2021/02/15/hedges-cancel-culture-where-liberalism-goes-to-die


"Too often the targets of the cancel culture are radicals, such as the feminists who run the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter and who do not admit trans people because most of the girls and women in the shelter have been physically assaulted and traumatized by those with male bodies. None of the critics o"f these feminists spend ten or twelve hours a day in a shelter taking care of abused girls and women, many of whom were prostituted as children, but fire off screeds to attack them and cut their funding. The cancel culture, as the Canadian feminist Lee Lakeman says, is “the weaponization of ignorance.”

The cancel culture was pioneered by the red baiting of the capitalist elites and their shock troops in agencies such as the FBI to break, often through violence, radical movements and labor unions. Tens of thousands of people, in the name of anti-communism, were cancelled out of the culture. The well-financed Israel lobby is a master of the cancel culture, shutting down critics of the Israeli apartheid state and those of us who support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semites. The cancel culture fueled the persecution of Julian Assange, the censorship of WikiLeaks and the Silicon Valley algorithms that steer readers away from content, including my content, critical of imperial and corporate power. "


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“‘The best thing about the states we’re heading for,’ said Wednesday, ‘Minnesota, Wisconsin, all around there, is it has the kind of women I liked when I was younger. Pale-skinned and blue-eyed, hair so fair it's almost white, wine-colored lips, and round, full breasts with the veins running through them like a good cheese.’” (66-67)

Enough to win over some wignats? About halfway done with American Gods, by Neil Gaiman.

Has been a slower read, but mainly because of focusing on other books. In itself I like American Gods pretty well. I did shake my head at how mainstream publishing works when Gaiman explained that he had the title and even the cover design before he knew what the plot was going to be, but I’ve enjoyed this supernatural-heavy plot. With gods strolling around and the dead coming back to life, even adding to the up-front chatter in the hearse, you never know what‘s going to happen.

One of the best and funniest scenes is Wednesday’s criminal moneymaking scheme: putting an out of order sign on a bank’s night deposit box, and impersonating an affable security worker collecting deposits in a makeshift bag! I could almost see the scene in an 80s/90s family movie.

I’ll admit, I felt rather dumb. It was only when I was almost halfway through when it occurred to me why Odin said Shadow could call him Wednesday. Probably the most dispiriting thing about this story, is also the biggest turn-off in classical mythology: how the gods behave. While Wednesday is smart, no doubt about that, he’s more id than tact and is lacking in decorum, just like the Greek and Norse deities, which is why I never much liked learning about mythology in school days. Like this story, it doesn’t feel, well, very religious.

A few insights Gaiman inserts into American Gods. While the gods mostly ignore American Christianity, you’d think they would be thrilled by the resurgence in professed paganism. A telling exchange happens on 274-275, when Wednesday challenges Eostre (Easter), whose name is still honored, about the state of her cult. An woman in a cafe thinks the term Easter is Christian in origin, while a younger waitress, a pagan, says what she worships is ”the female principle… the goddess within us all.” Wednesday makes fun of her because her paganism is nothing like the ritual-heavy worship of her remote ancestors, topping it off with a Chesterton quote.

The praise of Nordic women is apropos as most of the story happens in these Nordic-settled heartland states. Our ex-con, mixed race, mysterious lead Shadow settles in Lakeside, Wisconsin (a town more considerable than the real Lakesidem WI, and supposedly inspired by Menomonie) under an assumed name, and quickly becomes a part of the community. Lakeside has a bunch of great characters, ranging from the older Hintzelmann, deeply involved in charitable efforts, a ready helping hand, and with a repertoire of stale tall tale jokes, to Alison McGovern, a teen with rubber bands in her teeth, memorably boasting her expertise in using Alka-Seltzer to give better oral to a friend in Shadow’s hearing. On learning she’s gone missing, he had to stop himself from calling her Alka-Seltzer Girl! The town is faring better than some nearby virtual ghost towns, but can’t entirely avoid the effects of deindustrialization. When a local explains how Lakeside is “lucky”,

“There was something empty at the bottom of all her words. It was as if he were listening to a salesman, a good salesman, who believed in his product, but still wanted to make sure you went home with all the brushes or the full set of encyclopedias.” (281)

Despite the unwelcome foul language mouthed by the all-too-human gods, and with a fascination with White beauty and sexuality some will inevitably mark down as the Jewish male’s obsession with the shiksa, this is a decent read, particularly for something both so popular and so promoted. Yet, the most notable Gaiman couldn’t escape his Jewishness just cropped up, in this hilarious passage where Mr. Ibis, supposedly a Black-passing Egyptian deity working a funeral parlor in Cairo, Illinois (c’mon, isn’t that brilliant?) cites who else, the “good German“ as the example of two-faced evil. “Were he a truly good man, he knows, he would feel nothing but joy, as the earth is cleansed of its pests,” (284). In 5000 years of life, really can’t think of worse example than that, Mr. Ibis? Shaking my head, can almost share the sentiment.

Almost. As it happens, the Jewish author is currently under a cancellation campaign for his behavior toward women students. Come on, why become a rich and famous author if you can’t wow and woo younger girls? Gaiman is innocent. The dominant sentiment in my head, rather than tiring of the misbehavior of his people and race, is tiring of hypocritical rightists who would go one worse than Jewish feminism to diminish a decently good author whose biggest crime, as I see it, remains too many swear words.

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