The use of "cancel culture" in this context is not only just wrong, it's also bizarre, seems like some kind of ideological keyword stuffing.
There's some serious fucked up 1984 oceania was always at war with Eastasia shit going on in this econist pueces & these threads. the production, that there are similar forces, is horseshit. society expressing it's democratic view of whats ok versus leaders forcing cancellation, mandating what culture can be without any will of the people- one leads clearly to heaven & i like jefferson swear i will forever stand against tyranny. i refuse that hell. serious propoganda mind bending shit, bending way over to accomodate low petty stupid blunt authoriarianism.
to be clear, there are hella problems with inverted totalitarianism. there are dangers of mob rule, of dumber populist senses. but holy shit, the amount of efforts i see in these threads to horseshoe the issues around, to say that the two problems are the same, regardless of whether it's a few projecting narrow minded stupidity or a masser body- it's ignorant & stupid in the extreme to say these are at all the same. sure there may be some symptoms. but fuck this apologia, fuck saying they are the same, fuck this so much. one could not work harder to sabotage democracia.