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Yes. The debate we need to have is NOT whether cancel culture exists (because how would we resolve that question?), NOR is it whether cancel culture writ large is good/bad (too sweeping). Rather, we should do the hard work of thinking about when "cancelling" might be appropriate.
That's a hard, potentially boring conversation. It would require carefully weighing different kinds of speakers, audiences, types of speech and their media, distance, track records, etc. Unglamorous stuff, I suspect. But a hell of a lot more productive than what we're doing now.
It is much more fun to simply assert a rule (cancelling is always bad), a mood (cancelling has gotten out of control), or a dismissal (cancelling is just a part of life). I don't know about you, but I find that sort of stuff to be useless. It is, however, apparently very popular.
