What is cancel culture, anyway? Back up a step: is there a “cancel culture”? Stanford Humanities Professor Adrian Daub has written The Cancel Culture Panic: How An American Obsession Went Global. He says the real story is the manipulation of the phrase – and its roots in the concepts of “political correctness” and “wokeism”, brought to you by the same perpetrators. Adrian Daub teaches gender studies and music at Stanford. He’s also the author of What Tech Calls Thinking.
Is “Cancel Culture” Real?
