Thanks for your interesting article.

I am still struggling with ‘political correctness’ and ‘cancel culture’. Couldn’t these be simplistic badges meant to encapsulate a vast array of issues? People preoccupied with climate change are told they are PC and someone objecting to public statues of people who fought for the right to keep slaves are PC and part of the Cancel culture. I believe they may simply have valid opinions.

When people want to affect change they often have to go a bit overboard, or a movement may become more extreme, but those are consequences, often temporary, to achieve change and it doesn’t invalidate the underlying objective. Everything being equal the job should go to the person of the group that is under-represented. That’s a good method to assuage under-representation. But then it became ‘PC’.

Affirmative action was and still is, a method to bust white male strangleholds, and this may not always be fair in individual cases, but that doesn’t mean we should leave things as they are, do we?

With regards to opinions of writers who resign from their publications, the fact that their resignation letters are widely read, appears to contradict that they are ‘silenced’ or that ‘silencing’ is the dominant culture.

I believe that much talk about PC and Cancel culture may have developed into a general perception that these are indeed more extreme ‘movements’ than they really are.

It certainly doesn’t hurt the alt-right to use these concepts as pencils for painting a picture of an authoritarian Left-wing agenda.

Many forces are at play to manipulate any grass-roots movement, and it’s up to us to remain vigilant and not confound the underlying issues with the forces that manipulate.

I remain skeptical of umbrella terms such as ‘Cancel Culture’ and ‘PC’ and try to evaluate each case and each claim on its own merits.