Cancel Culture Tag

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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Court denies Parler request for injunction against Amazon Web Services

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2021 53 Comments

Amazon Web Services took down Parler from its cloud service, allegedly based on threats on the Parler platform, mirroring simultaneous actions by Google and Apple to remove the Parler App.

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Prof. Charles Negy: Investigative Report is “UCF’s attempt to justify getting rid of me because I have become a political liability”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2021 38 Comments

We previously reported on the targeting of University of Central Florida Professor Charles Negy over his tweets in early June 2020 questioning claims of ‘systemic racism’ and asserting ‘black privilege is real.’ That targeting by students, alumni, and other activists, was joined by the UCF administration, including newly-installed President Alexander Cartwright, who participated in the protests against Prof. Negy.

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Regnery Publishing Picks Up Hawley’s Book on Big Tech After Simon and Schuster Dropped It

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 18, 2021 30 Comments

Regnery Publishing president and publisher Thomas Spence announced his company would publish Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) book The Tyranny of Big Tech. Simon and Schuster dropped Hawley on January 7th, the day after he voted not to certify the 2020 presidential election and the Capitol Hill riots.

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Loews Hotels Cancels Sen. Josh Hawley Fundraiser, Falsely Alleging ‘Incitement’ of Capitol Riots

Posted by Stacey Matthews on January 17, 2021 61 Comments

Apparently, voicing objections to electoral votes, as Democrats have repeatedly done, now equates to "incitement" and "sedition."

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Harvard Students Launch Petition to Revoke Degrees of Trump Supporters in Government

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 16, 2021 70 Comments

Lehigh University has already revoked an honorary degree from Trump, and Middlebury College is considering doing the same to Rudy Giuliani. What is now happening at Harvard is not about honorary degrees.

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Chapman U. Law Prof John Eastman Resigns After Pressure Campaign Over Trump Rally Appearance

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 15, 2021 22 Comments

Professor John Eastman attended the Trump rally last week but did not participate in the Capitol Hill riot. The school faced tremendous pressure from its faculty to fire him for this. The university president refused to fire him. Eastman has now resigned.

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