Why Cancel Culture May Only Make Racism Worse

03/03/2021

Could cancel culture actually stunt our society's strides towards better race relations? No children's author today would create imagery like the allegedly offending pictures created by Suess - not because it is officially or institutionally banned, but because it has fallen out of cultural favor. And that is how racism is eroded: by organic and culture-wide understandings reached by society as a whole, not by experts.