A rock band’s tour cancelled after one of the band members made a tasteless joke. A working-class cashier sacked from her job at the behest of an online mob who were horrified by something she said on Facebook. A schoolteacher suspended after being dogpiled for a daft remark she made online. Has the left-wing digital mob been on the rampage again? Actually, no – this time it’s right-wingers who are furiously demanding the scalps of everyone who offends them.
So this is what we have to look forward to if Trump ousts Biden?
There has been a frenzy of cancellation in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. People who’ve made tawdry comments about the shooting are being hunted, doxxed, shamed, sacked. Most decent folk will think it is wrong to make wisecracks about an incident in which a presidential candidate was targeted for death and an ordinary citizen was killed.
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