Apparently novelist, YouTuber & media critic @thelindsayellis is withdrawing from public life in response to what is frankly the dumbest and most inexplicable online hate mobbing I’ve ever seen.
Here’s @thelindsayellis’s account of the aforementioned mobbing. A lot of kvetching about “cancel culture” is overblown, but there really are groups of folks who take perverse glee in wrecking lives over the most ludicrously trivial of perceived offenses.
Ironically, the barking about “cancel culture” is loudest from folks on the right who are largely immune to it. The scoldmobs are most vicious to folks on the progressive left, since those are the only people they ultimately have any power over.
In case you’re wondering what vile racist act got Ellis hounded off the Internet: She wrote a tweet offhandedly likening “Raya and the Last Dragon” to “Avatar: The Last Airbender.’ Yes, seriously.
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