So do we do cancel culture now? Or is that still a woke thing? I never remember.
*Buy the coffee, or don't by the coffee, no skin of my nose, but the NYT article smacks of trying to get other people not to buy the coffee, which is edging into cancel territory, if you ask me.
A lot of people are saying things like that now, whenever people on the right object to anything anyone's doing. On the one hand, it's true that there's some similarity to the left and right on this. I believe I said years ago, that the real problem with cancel culture is that it's being done by the wrong side, over the wrong issues. Aside from extreme measures, like mob violence, "cancelling" is a non-coercive, free-association tactic. We should use it
more than the Left does, but for legitimate reasons; not because people refuse to go along with Left-wing sick-headedness.
On the other hand, if someone's just saying, "I won't buy your stuff or watch your videos, and no one else should, either," that's not cancel culture. That's just a good, old-fashioned boycott. For some reason, people whine about boycotts, too, so...