“Are We Allowed?” — Cancel Culture’s Illusion of Authority

One of the most alarming phrases cropping up in missives from those tiptoeing around the eggshells of cancel culture.

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Cancel culture is having an alarmingly corrosive and chilling effect on western consciousness. Critical thinking and independent decision making are increasingly surrendered to the Cancel Culture Collective Consciousness, and their humourless enforcers, who lurk in dark corners of social media forums, ready to pounce at the slightest sign of thought crime. They are loud, abrasive, obnoxious, and, most frustratingly of all, illogical. I am sick to the back teeth of their bullying nonsense. Away with them.

Staunchly independent old gits like yours truly have long ceased giving an airborne fornication what finger-wagging, sanctimonious, condescending, virtue-signalling hypocrites think about my entertainment choices. I refuse to be told, for my own good, what I can and cannot watch. I am an unrepentant separate-art-from-artist extremist. I have written in detail about my position on this issue, and you’ll be pleased to hear I don’t plan on tediously rehashing all of that in this article.

However, I do want to pick up on a turn of phrase I find particularly worrying when I read anxious missives from the…