We need a new phrase to describe when the left desperately wants to cancel someone or something but doesn't have quite enough cultural capital to do so. The people who called Dr. Suess racist obviously want all of his books gone, but those books are still too popular to attack directly; a push to ban Green Eggs and Ham would do more harm than good for the radical leftist assault on our cultural institutions. So the zealots settle for a partial canceling - a few second and third tier books banned, a disclaimer next to the author's name, plausible deniability that you've engaged in any censorship at all - just chipping away at the foundations in preparation for some future date when leftists have enough power to move fully against the target.

Reminds me of HBO's Game of Thrones during it's better seasons. That show was "problematic" as fuck, but most of the woke activists were strategic enough to avoid challenging the most popular show on television - because doing so would have damaged their cause more than the show. There's a lesson in there: the best way to fight these assholes is to create undeniable art.

We need a new phrase to describe when the left desperately wants to cancel someone or something but doesn't have quite enough cultural capital to do so. The people who called Dr. Suess racist obviously want all of his books gone, but those books are still too popular to attack directly; a push to ban Green Eggs and Ham would do more harm than good for the radical leftist assault on our cultural institutions. So the zealots settle for a partial canceling - a few second and third tier books banned, a disclaimer next to the author's name, etc. - chipping away at the foundations in preparation for some future date when leftists have enough power to move fully against the target.

Reminds me of HBO's Game of Thrones. In it's That show was "problematic" as fuck, but most of the woke zeitgeist was strategic enough to avoid challenging the most popular show on television - because doing so would have damaged leftism more than the show.