Much of what is derided as cancel culture is simply anti-bullying, desperate people trying to stand up against the bromides of the strong against the weak, resist the brutal, amoral system which encourages meanness as both the right of the oppressor and a “proven” way to “toughen up” the weak by making them fit for cannon fodder. Even today, such abhorrent views are expressed as natural, common-sense, e.g., defending starvation and, by extension, starvation wages as a form of self-motivation, a way to squeeze the last drops out of the bloodless turnips that are the “lazy and coddled”.

If bullying kills, then stopping it saves lives. Not cancel culture. Saving lives.