On Cancel Culture. From Judging to Lynching: Repressions and Discriminations in the Name of Morality
The wave of the so-called Cancel Culture represents a new obscurantist danger, a new chapter of intolerance. In the United States, some universities have censored even Shakespeare and the Greek classics. In England, they have prevented an Egon Schiele exhibition, intimidation and aggression are multiplying, up to the violent ouster of a professor from the University of Sussex because she was considered unorthodox according to the canons of political correctness. They even change the endings of operas, as happened in Florence with Carmen. If in the once tolerant West we find it hard to perceive the smell of burning, it is because now the burning of books is called censorship.