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1. It seems as though progressives have hit upon the "if you complain about cancel culture, then that just illustrates that you are an entitled winer" argument. This illustrates, I think, a surprising contempt for the ordinary people who are the most imperiled by cancel culture.
2. The people who are the most threatened by cancel culture aren't Steven Pinker or J. K. Rowlings; they are middle-class professionals with kids and enormous debt who are terrified of losing their source of income.
3. I talk to these people all the time. These aren't prestigious people living in New York or Los Angeles. They are largely unknown. They keep opinions private because they have seen what happens to those who don't. Remember, one firing silences 200 more from fear.
4. I suspect the progressives who make the entitlement argument don't even think about these vulnerable people because they don't inhabit the world of Ezra Klein or Alexandria Cortez. They aren't jet setters. Therefore, they are insignificant.
5. Which, of course, just illustrates the point that their careers are precarious. If they lose their jobs, they might lose any chance at doing the thing they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars training to do.
6. It's not "entitlement" to worry about that. And it in fact reflects a remarkable callousness to support firing people (cancelling them) for opinions and ideas. Few things are more humiliating and damaging to a person's psyche as losing a job.
