Four kinds of "cancellation"

A futile attempt to lend some minimal clarity to this muddled debate.

Recently, I wrote about how incoherent the discourse on cancel culture has become. In an effort to impose some minimal degree of clarity on this conversation, I’d like to categorize what we often refer to as “cancellation” into four different types:

A) Government censorship, firings, bannings, editorial decisions, and other exercises of state or manageri…