It is to the advantage of those who wish to deny cancel culture to conflate the political correctness movement of the late twentieth century with the problems we face today. It enables them to caricature the debate in tabloid terms – ‘PC’ versus ‘non-PC’ or ‘snowflake’ versus ‘anti-snowflake’ – whereas, in reality, it is closer to Mill’s conception of the ‘struggle between Liberty and Authority’. These are the two narratives of what has become known as today’s ‘culture war’, one a cartoonish misrepresentation, the other a sincere effort to uphold the lynchpins of democracy. We should be wary,
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