https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53330105
'Some 150 writers, academics and activists - including authors JK Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood - have signed an open letter denouncing the "restriction of debate".
They say they applaud a recent "needed reckoning" on racial justice, but argue it has fuelled stifling of open debate.
The letter denounces "a vogue for public shaming and ostracism" and "a blinding moral certainty".
[...]
One signatory - Matthew Yglesias, co-founder of liberal news analysis website Vox - was rebuked by a colleague on Tuesday for putting his name to the letter.
Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff, a trans woman, tweeted that she had written a letter to the publication's editors to say that Yglesias signing the letter "makes me feel less safe at Vox".
But VanDerWerff said she did not want Yglesias to be fired or apologise because it would only convince him he was being "martyred".
One signatory recanted within hours of the letter being published.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, a US author and transgender activist, tweeted: "I did not know who else had signed that letter.
"I thought I was endorsing a well-meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming."
She added: "I am so sorry."
Get a grip FFS!
Also:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53311867
'Last October, former President Barack Obama challenged cancel culture and the idea of being "woke" - a term describing being alert to injustices and what's going on in the community - saying change was complex.
"I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people," Mr Obama said.
"The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."