Reading this now and looking back on the idea of cancel culture, I’m curious where in the spectrum of use the word cancelable sits?

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&content=cancel%2Ccancelable%2C%22cancel+culture%22&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccancel%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccancelable%3B%2Cc0

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Many of us hear this attack as saying that the four embody a fundamental otherness, and their true membership as one of us” is fragile and even cancelable. 1


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links: linguistics cancel culture beyond the pale Google ngram

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MOC: [[Words MOC]]


  1. ‘Racist’ Is a Tough Little Word by John McWhorter in The Atlantic | syndication link↩︎


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September 28, 2020