Cancel culture often involves mobs getting a person fired or de-platformed because he or she expresses a view that the intolerant consider beyond the bounds of permissible dissent.
Democratic pollster David Shor, for instance, was fired for noting that violent protests often undermine their own cause politically. Marquette University fired a professor because he said a student should be allowed to express his opposition to gay marriage.
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