Wear a Weird-Looking Mask
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- Say a wrong thing—and everybody from internet randos to your friends and your boss will see it, condemn you, and think less of you. If you don’t like being different, if you don’t like being disliked—well, you’ll just keep your mouth shut.
- And it’s not clear to me that the anti-cancel culture warriors and their predictions of doom are helping. Rather than creating a culture more tolerant of dissent, they help inflate the menacing specter of cancellation—and it is exactly this specter that deters others from speaking their mind.