I was thinking of people with a real audience, not just some random profiles that got deleted. Their most loyal audience always knows when it happens because they establish contact through other means.
Or it could start with just the most famous cases like Trump, Alex Jones, whatever. I feel like just by using memory we can get to at least a hundred.
I used to keep a list as cancel culture started ramping up, but then I stopped because it was clearly happening too quickly for me to keep up. I'm guessing there are close to a hundred thousand people now.
Nonetheless, here are some names I jotted down over the years. I cannot vouch for any of these people. Being on the list just means they lost something (job, social media, bank account, etc) based on their political opinion voiced via free speech which was not in violation of any written policy (e.g. when it comes to social media). I have some data on some of these stories, but not for all of them. Some of them have died since, several have committed suicide, others begged to be let back into society and turned into cancellers themselves. So like I say, being on this list does not mean I vouch for them in any way, and many names I don't recognize.
Aaron Kindsvatter
Alan Dershowitz
Alessandro Strumia
Alex Jones
Alice Dreger
Ashutosh Jogalekar
Bari Weiss
Bret Weinstein
Brian Lieter
Brian Peckford
Candace Owens
Charles Murray
Chris Hedges
Christina Hoff Sommers
David Starkey
Debra W Soh
Don Brash
Donald Trump
E.O.Wilson
Eric Lander
Erika Christakis
Faith Goldy
Gary Garrels
Gavin McInnes
Gordon Klein
Harald Uhlig
Isabella Chow
James Damore
James Watson
John C Dvorak
Jordan Peterson
Lauren Southern
Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Summers
Lindsay Shepherd
Lisa Littman
Mark Knight
Mary Spellman
Matthew Hubbard
Mehgan Murphy
Mike Adams
Noah Carl
Philippe Rushtin
Rebecca Tuvel
Richard J Hernstein
Rick Metha
Roland G Fryer, Jr.
Ron Sullivan
Sergei Tabachnikov
Stacy Brown
Stephen Molyneux
Steve Hsu
Steven Galloway
Steven Pinker
Teresa Nielson
Theodore P Hill
Tiffany Riley
Sir Tim Hunt
William A Jacobson
Judge not, lest ye be judged eh?
Can't believe they cancelled my boy e. o. wilson. fuck dick lewontin and his left-wing authoritarianism
Humans are not born as tabula rasa. Our behaviors are partially genetically determined. But we are born with a very high level of plasticity allowing us to configure to our cultural norms and the local langauge, for example. Lewontin and Gould were afraid of the social implications of this knowledge, that it would be used as an excuse by racists to terminate certain genetic lineages, and they thought they were doing the right thing by denying the truth, especially given that the holocaust was just 30 years prior to this debate. But denying an inconvenient truth doesn't make it go away.
Twin studies bear this out. It is sometimes suprising how similar twins separated at birth are, even though they had very different cultural upbringings. So E.O. Wilson's rejection of tabula rasa was correct, and the "International Committee Against Racism" was over-the-top, cocksure and wrong.
Yet if you search the Internet for E.O. Wilson you'll find many writings about how he was a bad man, how he promoted "scientific racism."
The modern (mostly American) movement to reject inconvenient truths and replace them with desires (for that is my best description of what is going on) is naturally detrimental and destructive and is the root cause of America's slow but inexorable downfall.
Damn, well put
road to hell paved with good intentions etc.
