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by the_af 979 days ago
> Saying he did X is not the same as cancelation

Cinema students are literally asking teachers not to include Woody Allen in their syllabus. I don't know if everywhere, but I'm telling you of a second hand account of someone I know who witnessed this. And it's not the only example.

> There is also difference between "not mentioning person existed" and refusal to celebrate that person as hero or moral founder.

This brings us back to the initial comment I posted in this thread: why celebrate a public figure as a hero or moral founder? People seem to want to do this. Everyone must be either a hero or a villain; and a hero who falls from grace and turns into a villain in the public eye is doubly reviled!

It's fascinating but also irritating how we are so eager to create gods and then destroy them.