“In my experience, most people, especially those who
are middle-aged and older, have complicated and contradictory feelings about
the rapid changes in values, manners and allowances that fall under the rubric
of cancel culture. They’re glad to see challenges to elite impunity, and
uncomfortable about what can seem like mob justice. The notion of separating
the art from the artist has gone out of fashion, but a progressive version of
old-fashioned morality clauses isn’t a satisfying replacement.”—Opinion
columnist and TV commentator Michelle Goldberg, “
Finally, a Great Movie About Cancel Culture,” The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2022The photo accompanying this post, of Michelle Goldberg
at the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival panel, was taken on Sept. 23, 2012, by Joann Jovinelly (editrrix) from NYC.
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