Cancel Culture Tag

Will Cornell Apologize To Chemistry Prof. David Collum After Charges Dropped Against Buffalo Cops?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2021 21 Comments

Cornell University Chemistry Professor David B. Collum was targeted in one of the earliest examples of campus cancel culture after the death of George Floyd. The attacks on me would follow by just a few days, though I didn't know it when I wrote about Prof. Collum.

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NY Times Revises Its Racial Slur Standard After Spiking Column Critical of How Reporter Was Forced Out

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 12, 2021 19 Comments

The New York Times is once again caught up in a whirlwind of a mess of their own making. Last week, we reported on how health and science reporter Donald McNeil Jr., a 47-year veteran of the newspaper, had resigned after complaints were made about certain language he used on a 2019 student trip to Peru.

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Twitter Permanently Suspends Project Veritas, Locked James O’Keefe’s Account

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 12, 2021 47 Comments

Twitter kicked off Project Veritas from the platform for breaking its "private information policy." It also locked founder James O'Keefe out from his personal account.

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France sees foreign threat: “out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2021 32 Comments

We have covered for a decade the campus shout-downs and shut-downs of speakers, the incessant thought policing, the political correctness run amok, and in recent years, the cancel culture and repression of free expression. We also have documented how the campus culture has migrated to the broader culture, reflected in Big Tech censorship and repression.

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The Mandalorian Star Gina Carano Fired, Dropped by Talent Agency for Social Media Posts

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 11, 2021 100 Comments

The mob has gone after Gina Carano, who plated Cara Dune in The Mandalorian, for months over her social media posts. They won after she compared being a Republican today to Jews during the Holocaust. Lucasfilm said Carano is "not currently employed" by them, "and there are no plans for her to be in the future."

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Cancel Culture Has Now Come to the U.S. Naval Academy

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 09, 2021 0 Comments

"Many alumni are aghast at what has evolved there in recent years"...

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Student Activists Target DePaul University Prof for Cancellation

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 07, 2021 10 Comments

Students have accused him of being "violently transphobic”...

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Chase Bank Cancels Pro-Trump Covfefe Coffee

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 06, 2021 100 Comments

The purge of anything and everyone even vaguely related to President Trump is taking yet another ominous turn. Two banks, Deutsche and Signature, severed ties with Trump ostensibly due to the Capitol events of January 6th, but apparently just having a pro-Trump internet business is enough to get one cancelled.

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NYTimes Reporter Resigns After Staff Rejects Results Of ‘Racist Language’ Investigation

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 06, 2021 38 Comments

Last week, the Daily Beast reported that New York Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. had landed himself in hot water with the paper over allegations he used racially offensive and sexist language during a 2019 student trip to Peru. The educational trip, which was open to high school and middle school students and their families, was sponsored by the Times.

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San Francisco Schools Changes Art Department Name Because Acronyms are Racist

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 02, 2021 57 Comments

What is in the water in San Francisco? We have evidence that remote learning has caused a huge gap in achievement, but I guess that is not a priority. First, the school board ordered 44 schools to change names. Second, a teacher cried about Bernie's mittens. Now we have the art department declaring acronyms as racist.

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Duquesne U. Faculty Oversight Body Recommends Rehiring Prof Dismissed for Using Racial Slur in Class

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 01, 2021 6 Comments

“The president has received the report and will review its recommendations in their entirety before issuing a decision”...

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Activists Seek To Purge Suspected Pro-Trump White House Sign-Language Interpreter

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 30, 2021 34 Comments

Here at LI, we've been covering the creep of cancel culture from our nation's universities into our society.

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The Purge Deepens, Literary Agent Fired Merely For Having Parler and Gab Accounts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2021 33 Comments

We have covered a gazillion cases since last spring of people 'cancelled' for social media posting or public statements that offend the dominant leftist orthodoxy on campus and elsewhere. It's very personal combat, almost always left cancelling right, and it's setting the nation against itself.

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San Francisco School Board Votes to Change School Names, Including Dianne Feinstein Elementary

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 28, 2021 23 Comments

The San Francisco School Board voted to change the names of 44 schools, including the one named after Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

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Twitter Permanently Bans My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell’s Personal Account

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 26, 2021 36 Comments

Twitter announced the platform permanently banned My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell because of "repeated violations of" the Civic Integrity Policy.

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Pennsylvania Teacher Suspended for Attending Trump Rally Says His Life Has Been Destroyed

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 25, 2021 29 Comments

Jason Moorehead, a teacher in Allentown, PA, for 17 years, attended the Trump rally in DC on January 6th. Although he did not participate in the Capitol Hill riots, he claims he was smeared by association and suspended from his job. He has also been doxxed, and now his family is living in fear.

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VIDEO: Surviving The Big Tech Purge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2021 15 Comments

On Sunday night, January 17, the Legal Insurrection Foundation held an Emergency Event: Surviving The Big Tech Purge.

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Harvard Law School Student Crybullies Continue Attacks On Professor Over Tweets Mocking Leftists

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2021 25 Comments

On December 6, 2020, we covered yet another pathetic self-absorbed cancel-culture pity-party attack in academia, this time against esteemed Harvard Law School Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, because his tweets were too snarky and made fun of leftists and hurt their precious feelings.

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