"Cancel culture" is what angry folks (usually right-wingers) use to describe how people don't want to listen to their antiqued views or don't understand that what they say isn't universally accepted. It just happens to be called out more publicly rather than continue as the low frequency 'hum' of bad takes that include discrimination, misogyny, racism, ageism, classism, and other kinds of imbalances.
Condemnation is just a more public response in the 'last five years'.
"Cancel culture" for the Freedom convoy is not cancel culture. If you've been shut down and had laws made against you because you're severely damaging the country economically and bringing guns, hate and general disorder, that's called 'consequence culture', not 'cancel culture'. And before the right-wingers get their Limbaughs in a knot, Occupy/BLM/Eco-warriors/Anti-pipelines get shutdown all the time too in their protests.
This Convoy is far past that issue, and now is serving as an impetus for law enforcement to be strengthened and sets a tone for political discourse going forward, which Ottawa does need to take more seriously.
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