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Olympic icon Michael Johnson has been called racist for merely questioning the timing methods used for the World Athletics Championships. 

Dave Chappelle fans have been raging on social media over First Avenue’s decision to cancel his show in response to woke outcry. 

The famed Minneapolis concert venue First Avenue has canceled a scheduled show starring comedian Dave Chappelle following woke outcry over his Netflix comedy special The Closer.

PARIS (AP) – Pressure is mounting on a French government minister to quit over comments allegedly stigmatizing homosexuality and LGBTQ people, in the latest challenge to President Emmanuel Macron’s leadership.

Dave Chappelle has declined to have a performing arts theater at his former high school bear his name following student backlash.

Comedy icon Rowan Atkinson, who will forever be immortalized as Mr. Bean, attacked political correctness and its stranglehold on comedy. 

Pop star Lizzo changed the lyrics to her new song, “Grrrls,” after facing backlash for making an “ableist slur” in the tune, in which the singer said, “I’m a spaz.” The singer took to social media on Monday to say that she changed the lyrics, because she understands the power of hurtful words “as a fat black woman in America.”

An anti-racism course given to academics at Universities across the UK has claimed that cancel culture benefits “racial/social justice”.

Muslims in London have mobbed a cinema for showing an allegedly “blasphemous” film already pulled nationwide by one major chain amid safety fears.

A Frenchwoman who participated in a five-month internship at a conservative French newspaper claims she was rejected for a position at the Paris Opera due to her right-wing past.

Former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden had two minor legal victories on Wednesday when a Nevada judge denied the NFL’s motion.

The LGBTQ cancel mob has taken out its pitchforks for Ricky Gervais, condemning his latest Netflix comedy special as “dangerous” and the streamer’s “most transphobic show yet.”

Isaiah Lee, the man who was caught on camera charging comedian Dave Chappelle during a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl earlier this month, has now revealed a motive for his alleged attack: jokes.

It is clear that left-wing cancel culture is at the heart of the PGA’s decision to yank its championship from Trump National Golf Course.

Legendary golf great Jack Nicklaus blasted the “cancel culture” that he says caused the PGA to yank the championship from Trump’s golf course

The #MeToo Terror has recently taken out two legends: Frank Langella and Bill Murray. Langella is at least standing up for himself.

Roseanne Barr is back, and she is unrepentant. The actress-comedian is the subject of a new Reelz documentary in which she rails against the left’s “witch-burning” cancel culture.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that “The people who can’t take a joke now aren’t old ladies in the Bible Belt. They’re Gen Z at elite colleges.” And that losing out on jokes and

Actor Mark Wahlberg ripped into cancel culture for its toxic gracelessness by denying people mercy with no hope for redemption. 

Will Smith’s assault on Chris Rock is cancel culture taken to its inevitable violent conclusion.

A lawyer fined £500 ($660) by regulators after saying that “free speech is dying and Islamists and other Muslims are playing a central role” has won an appeal to the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service.

British acting legend Joan Collins believes the #MeToo movement has driven a rise of “anti-maleness” that targets young men “who are suffering from being labeled toxically masculine.”

Joe Rogan recently criticized “activist” employees at tech giants, calling them “mentally ill.” Describing the Masters of the Universe at Google, Rogan said, “The lunatics are running the asylum to a certain extent because there’s a lot of people working inside the company now that legitimately are mentally ill and they consider themselves activists.”

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz praised Breitbart News and its audience of being open to “hear[ing] all points of view.”

A climate protest in Germany was reportedly derailed on Friday over a decision to cancel a major performer’s appearance over her dreadlocks.

The British government has claimed they will give free speech a “trump card” status in an effort to combat woke cancel culture, despite the fact it is currently legislating to increase censorship online.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is a victim of “cancel culture” like Harry Potter author JK Rowling. 

Leftists at the University of Virginia are pressuring the school’s administration to ban former Vice President Mike Pence from speaking at a student-sponsored event on Grounds, saying his presence is “dangerous” threatens student safety.

The National Museum Wales has declared that the use of steam trains is “rooted in colonialism and racism”.

British comedy icon John Cleese had his mic taken by woke co-panellists at an event in Austin, Texas, after pointing out that British imperialism was not unique and that the British, too, were once slaves.  

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has dropped a young Russian prodigy pianist from events this week, despite the pianist being outspoken on his opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The application of the techniques of cancel culture to the entire country of Russia continued on Thursday.

In what is considered by many to be a woke fail, and a free speech win, Netflix announced on Friday four new Dave Chappelle comedy specials, despite the veteran comedian coming under attack by a cancel culture mob in the wake of his latest special, “The Closer.”

Pop singer-songwriter Adele proclaimed, “We love being f**king females” after coming under attack and being accused of transphobia for saying that she loves “being a woman” at the sex-neutral Brit Awards.

Singer India Arie, one of the musicians who asked Spotify to remove her music over famed podcaster Joe Rogan, says she never called Rogan “racist,” and insists that she doesn’t believe in cancel culture.

One can never be woke enough in the eyes of today’s woke mob. Pop singer-songwriter Adele learned this on Tuesday, when she found herself under attack and accused of transphobia after stating that she loves “being a woman.”