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by dragonwriter 1863 days ago
> How do you cancel someone who is already dead?

There’s thousands of years of “cancel culture” history of doing that:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

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I guess my point was more in the, "Are we actually calling everything 'cancel culture' now?" vein, but I'm still going to read the wiki article cuz history is cool.