The more dim-witted pundits are always helpful because they’re thick enough to say what others are smart enough to hint at. Here, we get the startling revelation that “cancel culture” mostly means “people being rude about pundits on Twitter and nothing happening as a result”.
And here we have another view, with the uncancellable Mel complaining that her work - which includes regularly disseminating actual, for-real fascist conspiracy theories in the mainstream press - has made her too toxic for even some very right wing people.
There’s a surprisingly thin line between “I am a principled and fearless writer unafraid to face a backlash” and “Marxist professors are goading and brainwashing black people to destroy western civilisation” and it seems you definitely don’t get fired for the latter.
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