By now everyone knows what canceling is. Even so, there is a tendency to play it down. Many people who went to college back in the day can’t really believe the strength of university cancel culture. They don’t doubt that canceling happens, but they think it must be the exception rather than the norm.
The CDC says we may be getting closer to a something a little more like normal (whatever getting closer may mean). You’d better keep your fingers crossed, because in the meantime, other authorities are warning that in view of the latest, latest, latest kind of Covid-19, we may not be ready even yet. It seems that some people just can’t let go.
The following Op-Ed of mine ran in The Epoch Times on 16 February 2022. I am grateful to the editors for allowing me to repost the text here for readers who do not subscribe.
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Epoch Times, 16 February 2022
I wasn’t going to publish this item for a few more weeks, but after listening to a television interview this evening with my state’s lieutenant governor – whom I respect, but who is making a mistake – I have added a section and decided not to wait.
On one hand.
A young nonwhite woman in graduate studies – at my university, but not in my department – told me how maddening she found it that none of her teachers or advisors would give her any constructive feedback no matter how she pleaded for it. Everything she did was great, fine, wonderful. It was as though she could do no wrong.
