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by QuotedForTruth 1679 days ago
> They didn’t really acknowledge that the majority of cancels are just normal people who post stupid Tweets that then lose their jobs and get radicalized.

Can you provide any examples of this? I found myself agreeing with the against side because I really don’t see this happening.

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A little late here, but here's a list I keep. These aren't strictly normal people, but I do consider all of their "cancellations" terribly wrongheaded:

- Keith John Sampson (11/2007)

- Adria Richards (3/2013)

- Justine Sacco (12/2013)

- Nicholas & Erika Christakis (5/2016)

- Justine Schwarz (2/2017)

- Bret Weinstein (5/2017)

- James Damore (8/2017)

- Ben Frisch (3/2018)

- Jonathan Friedland (6/2018)

- No Winegard (3/2020)

- Colin Wright (4/2020)

- David Shor (5/2020)

- Emmanuel Cafferty (6/2020)

- Gordon Klein (6/2020)

- Stephen Hsu (6/2020)

- Elisa Parrett (6/2020)

- Norman C. Wang (8/2020)

- Will Wilkinson (1/2021)

- Lauren Wolfe (1/2021)

- Chris Harrison (2/2021)

- Donald Mcneil (2/2021)

- Alexi McCammond (3/2021)

- Sandra Sellers (3/2021)

- Paul Rossi (4/2021)

- Ryan Singer (4/2021)

- Antonio Garcia Martinez (5/2021)

- Emily Wilder (5/2021)