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he's been dead for a decade so I doubt he now wants the meaning to be anything. besides that he also never said anything about cancel culture he said it's about how tv turns you into a moron.

https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the...

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> In a 1994 interview, Bradbury stated that Fahrenheit 451 was more relevant during this time than in any other, stating that, "it works even better because we have political correctness now. Political correctness is the real enemy these days. The black groups want to control our thinking and you can't say certain things. The homosexual groups don't want you to criticize them. It's thought control and freedom of speech control."

They had cancel culture in the 90s too.

Cancel culture is vigilante political correctness.

Next comes legalized, then deputized, then militarized...

> you can’t say certain things

So he sees it as another form of censorship

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