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You have a right to privacy protected at ExpressVPN.com. Ben. Well, Benjamin Franklin once suggested that death and taxes were the only inevitabilities. Wrong he was. Cancel culture is an inevitability as well. Everyone will be canceled, unless you're on the full-on woke left, in which case you can say anything. I mean, you can literally quote Hitler. And if you're on the full-on woke left, you won't be canceled. They'll be tried just a little bit because you made everybody look bad. But you won't be canceled full out. We'll get to that story in a little while. But cancel culture is quite real. It particularly exists not at the top levels, although it does exist at the top levels. I mean, if you're the national book critic circle, then half of your board members are forced to resign

for not being sufficiently supplicatory toward Black Lives Matter. The vulture.com

reported a week ago that 12 board members of the National Book Critic Circle, an organization of

800 critics, began to draft a statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Noting the publishing industry has long been overwhelmingly white from top to bottom. They wrote of their culpability in this system of erasure of black and indigenous voices from the cultural conversation and listed a bunch of steps they wanted to take. Ismail Mohammed, a black writer and critics said, it was really exciting. We were hoping to change ourselves and then model something for the entire industry. just as the group was starting to share the statement of the world, the organization began to fracture and then implode. Over the past several days, more than half of the national book critics circles, 24 board members, which had included six people of color have resigned in a flurry of recriminations over racism, privacy concerns, and political correctness. What exactly happened? Well, the organization's president, one Lori Herzl, who was white, ran the statement by several board members who hadn't participated in writing it. One board member, Carlin Romano, said he disagreed with some of the claims in the letter, but didn't want to distract from the great majority of the board from its mission. But he went on to detail his objections to a number of those claims, dismissing the statement's fundamental premise is absolute nonsense that the publishing industry has been attempting to silence the voices of

people of companies. to detail his objections to a number of those claims, dismissing the statement's fundamental premise is absolute nonsense that the publishing industry has been attempting to silence the voices

of people of color, which is absolute nonsense, by the way. I mean, it's just not true. I know a lot

of the heads of these major publishing corporations, the last thing they are attempting to do

is silence people of color. It's insane. I mean, fully insane. A white critic and former board president, he took issue with the idea that publishing business operated with, quote, the full benefits of white supremacy and institutional racism, and that white gatekeeping had been working to stifle black voices at every level of our industry. These are statements that were made in this little letter. And then he was chided, and other people got angry and then a bunch of people were

basically forced to resign from the National Book Critics Circle. We've seen data analysts who

work for liberal organizations like David Shore put out basically anathine data points and then

be forced to resign from organizations like civics analytics. We've seen high level people people who've been forced to resign from their jobs, the Boeing Communications Chief, who's forced to resign because 33 years ago he wrote a piece saying that women shouldn't be in direct combat. This stuff does exist. And it's existed for quite a long time. I mean, let's not pretend that this is a creation of this year. I'm old enough to remember when Brendan Iish, the co-founder of Mozilla

Firefox, was forced to resign from his position for the great sin of having supported

traditional marriage under the proposition in 2008 in California that proposed that

traditional marriage to be preserved. By the way, that was at a time when Barack Obama

supported traditional marriage. He was forced to resign, Brendan Aish.

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