What's new is social media's ability to amplify the voices of a small number of relatively anonymous people to "cancel" someone.
McCarthyism required a Senator to have a serious impact. Now people are cancelled, without there being a clear link back to who, exactly, did the cancelling.
What's new is social media's ability to amplify the voices of a small number of relatively anonymous people to "cancel" someone.
McCarthyism required a Senator to have a serious impact. Now people are cancelled, without there being a clear link back to who, exactly, did the cancelling.