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British schools must “explain the harm caused by ‘cancel culture'” and avoid promoting “victim narratives”, new government guidance has said.

The Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) is funding an activist group that urges reporters to mute and cancel feminists and other people who criticize transgender claims.

It should be apparent to anyone paying attention — and even the corporate media can’t hide it anymore — that we are living through an era of revolutionary terror.

The loss of freedom requires its surrender from an acquiescent citizenry, warned actor Jim Caviezel, best known for portraying Jesus in The Passion of the Christ.

Progressives and Never Trumpers are calling for a boycott of Hobby Lobby over a viral image of a pro-Trump message spotted in a store display.

“If it’s okay for Nancy Pelosi to go and get her hair done … then you need to open up America right now,” salon owner Lindsey Graham said.

Jessica Krug, a professor covering African history at George Washington University also known as Jess Lam Bombera, admitted lying for years about her race in a Medium post published Wednesday.

NFL Legend Herschel Walker, who spoke at the Republican National Convention Monday evening, told USA Today Sports that he has lost friends over his open support for his friend, President Donald Trump.

The Republicans had a strong beginning to its convention, with many speakers attacking the left’s “cancel culture,” a theme that has become a major — and promising — GOP narrative since President Donald Trump addressed the issue in his Mt. Rushmore speech earlier this year.

Nicholas Sandmann, the MAGA-hat-wearing high school student who was defamed by the mainstream media at the March for Life in 2019, put on his famous hat again at the RNC, praising President Donald Trump for opposing “cancel culture.”

The cancel mob has come for left-wing comedian Randy Rainbow, who is scrambling to apologize for past tweets in which he made ethnic and transgender jokes. Rainbow is a darling among the left-wing political and cultural elite for his anti-Trump YouTube videos,  as well as his recent “Kamala!” song that went viral thanks to retweets from Hollywood actors Ben Stiller,  Eric McCormack, and Mark Hamill.

Kevin Hart knows what it feels like to be “cancelled.” The actor-comedian was invited to host the Oscars two years ago but was forced to step down before the job even began after the media dug through his old tweets and accused him of homophobia. Now Hart is hitting back at cancel culture’s practitioners, saying they leave no room for growth or redemption.

Dr Peter Ridd — the Australian professor cancelled for wrongthink on the Great Barrier Reef — wants to launch a new movement: Kamikaze Academics. 

Australian rocker Nick Cave mourned the lack of mercy in today’s society steered by cancel culture,  writing on his website that political correctness “has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.”

A pulchritudinous TV celebrity called Rachel Riley is under attack on Twitter from the Social Justice hate mob but I for one am not going to lift a finger to defend her.

British comedian and creator of The Office and After Life, Ricky Gervais, continued his assault on cancel culture, saying that it is “not cool” to try to get people fired over supposedly offensive statements.

Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Rowland took a stand against “cancel culture” on Friday, urging people to “stop tryin’ to be God.”

Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday night that “cancel culture” is fueling the American left’s policies that are causing a spike in violent crime across the United States.

British actor and comedian John Cleese said that the woke mob are destroying comedy through political correctness, saying that many people who try to enforce the newfangled speech codes have “no sense of humour”.

A recent survey found that nearly two-thirds of Americans are afraid to share their political beliefs in public. Only those on the far-left feel free to speak their minds.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court banned the legal term “grandfathering” on Monday due to its origins in the racist history of the South, where “grandfather clauses” were used to deny black people the right to vote in the post-Civil War era.

State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford (D) urged the Illinois Board of Education to end U.S. history classes in the state’s public schools.

As allegations against her show pile up, Ellen DeGeneres has found an unlikely defender in Republican and Fox News regular Geraldo Rivera.

HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher forcefully decried “cancel culture” on Friday’s show, telling his guests that “we need a pushback” on the movement.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) denounced the presence of a statue honoring canonized saint Father Damien, who ministered to lepers and died of the dreaded disease, as a remnant of “white supremacist culture.”

Owen Jones, a self-described socialist and columnist for the left-wing British paper The Guardian, apologised on Wednesday after penning an article on racism in British society that featured the wrong black British rapper. The mixup prompted people on social media to question if black people “all look the same” to Mr Jones.

Black Lives Matter and and cancel culture are forces seeking to silence all Americans, said Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA).

Columnist John Kass has defied “cancel culture” at the Chicago Tribune after members of the journalists’ union attacked him for criticizing left-wing billionaire George Soros and his backing of “progressive” prosecutors across the country.

Just days before this forced retirement became official, Mike Adams is dead by his own hand.

Harry Potter author Joanne ‘JK’ Rowling has weighed into the debate on “trans kids” once again, suggesting Britain is “on the brink of a medical scandal”.

“Cancel culture is a very grave threat to American freedom,” White House aide Stephen Miller told the Larry O’Connor radio show shortly after a Cato Institute survey showed that most Americans are silencing themselves amid online hostility.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called out Hollywood for its anti-police agenda during a press briefing on Friday in which she cited the recent cancellations of Cops and Live PD.

Mike Adams, an outspoken conservative professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, was found dead in his home on Thursday. Adams was forced to retire by administrators in July after he sparked controversy over politically incorrect tweets.

The editors of the Wall Street Journal have promised to defend free speech in their opinion pages after some 280 staff members complained of the conservative tone of the paper’s opinion section.

Almost 70 percent of people who approve of cancel culture say they are most concerned about economic, healthcare, or retirement issues in the 2020 elections, according to a survey by Morning Consult. 

When you remove those who are not aware of what the blacklisting “cancel culture” is, a “clear majority — across almost every demographic category — says that cancel culture has gone too far,” reports the far-left Politico.