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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by dragonwriter on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:47PM (#26310541)
> So if your point is that cancel culture is the expression of a new progressive theology,

Wheaton’s college is an extremely narrow evangelical Protestant theology, that as well as dismissing Hawkins for her statements and firing a professor a few years before for becoming Catholic as it violated the schools duty to employ faculty embodying it's Protestant ideals, also led it to sue against the ACA’s preventive services mandate.

I'm not sure why you would suggest that “cancellation” under that theology has anything to do with progressivism.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by rayiner on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:55PM (#26310595)
I’m not saying Wheaton’s cancellation is progressive. I’m pointing out that OP is essentially admitting that left-wing cancel culture is a progressive analogue to Wheaton’s “extremely narrow evangelical Protestant theology.”
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