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Dictionary.com weighed in on the hashtag #LetThemEatCake as the phrase trended on Twitter after Congress reached an agreement on a coronavirus relief bill after months of stalled negotiations.
Dictionary.com’s Twitter account tweeted out the definition and origin of the phrase “Let them eat cake” as Twitter users criticized congressional leaders for the package, which offered less in direct payments than March’s CARES Act. Let them eat cake, while often attributed to Marie Antoinette, first appeared in Jean-Jacques Rousseau s The Confessions in 1782, Dictionary.com’s tweet reads.
ADVERTISEMENT #LetThemEatCake is another way of saying those in power are insensitive to the realities of the unfortunate, the post continues.
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Cancel culture didn’t stop for the pandemic. In fact, it might have intensified
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Actor Vince Vaughn was the first person to be “canceled” in 2020. “The Mandalorian” star Gina Carano is among the last.
But in between Vaughan’s friendly chat with President Donald Trump and Carano’s election-fraud tweets were dozens of other people who became the faces of cancel culture this year. They include famous people, like actor Chris Pratt and “Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling, and ordinary Americans, such as Tori Perrotti, a Target employee who turned a social-media shaming into an opportunity to do good.