So it's a poorly defined term but Cancel Culture is really not what many people claim it is.

Cancel Culture ought to be understood as unfairly cancelling normal people from their jobs for saying things that are at worst an apology level offense (ie bad joke, epithet, etc.).

This means: People outside public life, random students, small business owners, people who aren't on TV. So Josh Hawley losing his book deal is not cancel culture, but a random High School student who said a racial epithet at 17 and lost her scholarship is.

If you work in the field of media and politics, working in Congress or elsewhere, your comments matter, and taking a position on something has consequences. Calling for Ilhan Omar or Marjorie Greene to be censured is not cancel culture.

The whole point about cancel culture is that it applies an uneven standard - treating normal Americans as if they are avatars for entire companies or movements or beliefs. "Fire this person for her sin against wokeness or we will purge you entirely". What a crock.

So when media jackholes without any sense of perspective talk about cancel culture as if it's a push to make them lose their think tank chair, remember: the whole point is about targeting the normals, the voiceless. That's not who they are.