Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published over 'hurtful and wrong' imagery

What ostensibly had her canceled was her observation about that other regressive time where intolerance of differences was normalized.

For myself I don't think Giuliani should be deleted from Youtube, Carano from Disney, or anyone else for that matter. It is also worth noting that CGTN is still on YouTube, Twitter is still listing various CCP accounts under "promoted followers". "Travel to Xinjiang", is suggested to me. Content whitewashing human rights abuses is fine for Twitter. Farrakhan, Khomeini and a host of other anti-semetic, holocaust denying voices are still present on that platform.

Ultimately the both-sides argument, "Therefore you must also censor Cenk Uygur", just reinforces a platform's moral authority in censorship. Claims of hypocrisy should be used in favor of open discussion instead.

I don't think canceling these people refutes their ideas as effectively as an open debate. For the average western person Khomeini's blatant falsehoods can easily be countered with establishment information, they are no threat.

The question becomes, are the masses of the hard-left unable to mount a suitable response to someone like Carano's critiques of their excesses, and therefore intolerance, cancelling becomes the only remaining option?

For critics, this becomes an easy snipe.

You'll also notice that the social media space is not dominated by exchanges between thought leaders in the realm of culture or economics. Instead, the champions are politicians or celebs who offer the unnuanced observations one would expect from pop culture.

Pop figures do battle, wage the war of ideas and culture with ineptitude. Cancelling is akin to ejecting them from the arena, perhaps unjustly. Nobody likes the officials when they rule against your team.

For Seuss, I think it is worth noting that he started with and evolved from racial views many would find offensive today. The obvious refrain is that we can't judge the past by the standards of the present. However to that I would add that a single mistake (or a collection of them) doesn't amount to the totality of one's character. Especially when the individual has reformed.