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Ivanka Trump condemned “cancel culture” in a tweet published on Friday after Wichita State University revoked its invitation for her to speak at the school’s spring commencement ceremony.

Actor John Malkovich is blaming the death of comedy on cancel culture fueled by the “tidal wave of idiocy” that thrives on social media.

In the latest instance of left-wing cancel culture, a virtual LGBT pride parade in the UK has been shut down after activists discovered that the organiser was a supporter of Brexit and had liked tweets from Nigel Farage and free speech campaigner Toby Young.

(AFP) — BuzzFeed said on Thursday that it would be shuttering part of its loss-making news operations in Britain and Australia, as it scales back global ambitions to cut costs.

More than eight in ten people working in culture and the arts feel those with “controversial opinions” risk professional ostracism.

Conservative parliamentarian Daniel Kawczysnki received a “formal warning” from the Conservative Party after a drive to “cancel” him for giving a speech at a conservative conference attended by Viktor Orbán and Matteo Salvini.

The Laura Loomer for Congress campaign is filing a formal complaint against Twitter with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that her campaign’s ban from Twitter because of her conservative viewpoints is effectively an illegal corporate in-kind contribution to her Democratic opponent, Frankel.

David Bellamy is dead — and if his name doesn’t mean much to you that is largely the fault of the disgusting BBC.

A study has found that a majority of conservative students feel unable to express their political opinions at university.

Angry leftists are attempting to “cancel” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the “new Republican star” who emerged as a major GOP player in the public impeachment hearings.

A report by Policy Exchange has warned that “academic freedom is being significantly violated” at British universities due to “forms of political discrimination”, with findings revealing that only four in ten Brexit-voting students feel comfortable sharing their political opinions.

The firing of hockey commentator Don Cherry by Sportsnet, a a TV channel owned by Canadian communications and media company Rogers Communications, has elicited thousands of online comments from users calling for a responsive boycott.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) told Breitbart News Daily on Thursday that the promotion of “cancel culture” in modern American society is a “disservice to our country” and “dangerous” because it “creates a culture of fear.”

Actor Hannibal Buress is the latest comedian to incur the wrath of woke left-wing purists after he dared to disagree with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders over the issue of rent control. The stand-up comedian and The Secret Life of

Douglas Murray has criticised the BBC for inviting him onto a programme to discuss woke culture, only for the presenter to ambush him with offence archaeology in order to derail Mr Murray’s argument and effectively ‘cancel’ him live on air.

Former President Barack Obama derided the political left’s woke purists and the overall cancel culture during a talk Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, Illinois.

Sean Spicer said he hopes his presence on Dancing with the Stars is continuing to send a powerful message to members of the intolerant left – that conservatives are “equal participants” and “cannot be canceled out” – during an appearance on Breitbart News Sunday.

Rap icon and fashion mogul Kanye West opened up in a nearly two-hour interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe to promote his latest album “Jesus Is King” and addressed his “service to Christ,” virtue signaling liberals, his plans to run for president, and much more.

Twitter has long been a hub of public shaming, where old tweets are dug up — often by journalists— to shame and embarrass users, or destroy their reputations and careers. Some media outlets, like now-defunct Gawker, specialized in it.

An official at the University of Southern California defended students that called for the removal of an on-campus exhibit dedicated to the life and works of actor John Wayne. The students argue that the exhibit honoring the legendary “Duke” promotes white supremacy.

YouTube star and podcast host Logan Paul has been targeted by Twitter users over his recent comments about abortion at a promotional event for an upcoming boxing match. Paul observed that his opponent, KSI, has caused five abortions, adding, “That’s five babies dead.”

Actor-comedian Deon Cole is joining a growing number of Hollywood entertainers who are speaking out against the censorious “cancel culture.”

Joker warns us of what happens when a society is stupid enough to allow the government to control health care, warns us that what the government giveth, the government can also taketh away.

Veteran actor-comedian Eddie Murphy is the latest comic to take a stand against cancel culture, suggesting that he doesn’t want to apologize for what he says when he returns to stand-up comedy in a tour scheduled for next year.

Joker director Todd Phillips, celebrated for his comedy classic Hangover films, says “woke culture” killed comedy and made people overly afraid of offending others, especially on social media.

By all accounts, Carson King is a decent young man trying to find his way in life. He could have easily, and legally, decided to keep all the money that was given. Instead, his instinct was to do good.

After King issued his apology, the good people of the Internet struck back, and Aaron Calvin, the so-called reporter who wrote the Register’s hit-piece, was found to have his own Old Tweet Problem.

We live in a world where your juvenile criminal record is expunged, but not your juvenile tweets, which means a whole lot of good people who made some dumb mistakes as minors (as we all have) are going to see their reputations burnt to the ground in this witch-hunt culture of ours.

“Saturday Night Live” alums Norm Macdonald and Robert Schneider have expressed their sympathy with comedian Shane Gillis after he was fired from the NBC comedy show on Monday following the resurfacing of old jokes where he used slurs against Asians and gays.

John Belushi as a Japanese samurai. Julia Sweeney as the gender-ambiguous Pat. “Jane, you ignorant slut.” These memorable Saturday Night Live sketches challenged the boundaries of taste and political correctness to become TV classics. But would they survive today’s cancel culture in which woke identity politics has become the ultimate arbiter of comedy?

Comedian Adam Carolla held nothing back Sunday during the Comedy Central roast of Alec Baldwin as he called out social justice warriors and “cancel culture” for its “bullshit, fake outrage.”

South Park co-creator Matt Stone has turned the tables on the cancel culture and TV critics by criticizing them for what he sees as their hypocritical takes on comedian Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix stand-up special.

Oddly enough, though, no one among those in the esteemed, unbiased, and not-at-all left-wing media, are chastising Chappelle for mocking white opioid addicts.