Amanda Marcotteās take on cancelling and the Harperās letter is good.
The problem with that Harperās letter is it conflates a couple of separate phenemonon. There is the snowflake problem of prominent writers wanting to say bigoted things or express fascist sympatheties without getting pushback or disinvited to cocktail parties.
ā Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 8, 2020