You cancel, I dole out accountability
Hal Niedzviecki gets philosophical about his 2017 cancellation
Looking back on the 2017 “cultural appropriation” scandal that saw Hal Niedzviecki resign as the editor of the Writers’ Union of Canada magazine, I have no doubt that it was an early and textbook case of cancellation, Canadian style. It came with a prolonged social media mobbing led by his peers, accompanied by slanted media coverage that takes discreet…