This cancel culture "debate" is devastatingly boring. Literally no-one has ever been cancelled for doing anything that isn't obviously beyond the pale. Even if they leave the limelight for a while they just come back. The most powerful men in the world right now are open bigots.

— Anthony We Need a Green Recovery Simpson-Pike (@SimpsonPike) July 9, 2020

Absurdly moronic take that misunderstands what is happening completely.

“Cancel culture” has nothing at all to do with the most powerful, but rather with skirmishes over disappearing good jobs. The goal of it is to knock the most capable and/or the most vulnerable out of the roles that the cancelers covet. There really isn’t any other way to explain what is going on without this framework being applied.