So You’re Being Cancelled
A survival guide for when the world turns on you
“Cancel culture” is a virtually meaningless phrase at this point. Mostly it is bullshit, but sometimes it is not. Cancellation is absolutely a real thing. It happens often. It’s ugly, and awful, and shredding.
By cancellation, I don’t mean suffering negative repercussions for being an asshole. I’m talking about a thing that happens with stunning regularity in leftist circles where the majority of people in your community decide you are a bad person who should not exist in public. Once they have reaches this decision, they attack you, relentlessly, no matter what you say, with the goal of driving you out of public life entirely. No internet presence. No showing up in person. They want you to disappear.
This kind of attack has happened to me, and, in a life that has included plenty of bad things it is still one of the most horrific things I’ve ever been through. There is simply no way to explain it to someone who hasn’t gone through it. Everyone who isn’t attacking you is telling you that you’re being a giant baby. It’s an impossibly lonely situation.
You are not being a giant baby. You are an animal that evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to survive by forming social groups. Now you are being driven out of your social group, which your…
