While many conservatives, politicians, pundits around the United States mourned the passing of broadcast legend Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday, issuing touching tributes to the talk radio host for his years of influential work, others took to social media to express their hatred and disdain for him.
Just minutes after the news of Limbaugh’s death broke, “Rest in Piss,” “Good Riddance,” and “Rot in Hell” all started trending on Twitter as multiple activists, journalists, professors, politicians, and others expressed their ill will towards him, offering his family nearly no time to mourn in peace.
“It’s easy to make fun of Rush Limbaugh right now, but it’s important to remember that he also brought a lot of people a lot of joy by dying,” TV writer Mike Drucker wrote.
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The war on words: how cancel culture is taking over the literary world Katie Law
Who would have thought that in 2021, as cancel culture becomes the new norm, the effect on authors has been to plunge the literary world into a freedom of speech crisis? Author Lionel Shriver calls it “a quasi-Soviet phenomenon”.
A writer says or writes something controversial on social media, in print or on TV. The news breaks, the crowd bays for blood, the tide turns and the writer is “cancelled”, shunned or left with a badly-damaged reputation.
In the past year, high-profile authors targeted include
Julie Burchill, and there are plenty more, many of whom we have never heard of. Some are deemed to have committed worse crimes than others, resulting in anything from mild censorship to accusations of insensitivity, cultural appropriation, misogyny, racism or transphobia, while others have had their book contracts revoked - and writers must learn to navigate this mora
If I had felt so optimistic as to bother making a wish list for 2021, there would have been a fierce battle for top spot between the end of this pandemic and the death of cancel culture.
I suppose one could make the point that the woke mob's insistence in decrying, deriding and de-platforming any
If I had felt so optimistic as to bother making a wish list for 2021, there would have been a fierce battle for top spot between the end of this pandemic and the death of cancel culture.
I suppose one could make the point that the woke mob's insistence in decrying, deriding and de-platforming any