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Is Vladimir Putin, The Victim of Cancel Culture?
Just asking….
That Vladimir Putin is unravelling spectacularly is no longer breaking news. That our man has continued to plumb new depths of paranoia, psychopathy and megalomania with every day the war is being waged in Ukraine, should be of major concern to everyone around the world.
Why have I written this?
The Russian strongman came out to say a few hours ago, that he and the Harry Potter author — J.K. Rowling are the victims of cancel culture. In one of his rambling speeches, he had the following to say about the twenty-first century phenomenon:
They recently cancelled the children’s author (J.K. Rowling) because she didn’t satisfy the fans of so-called gender freedoms. They are now trying to cancel our whole 1,000 year country, our people.
To those who may not be too well versed in what cancel culture is all about, I have taken the liberty of generating some sort of explanation, by way of the world’s greatest online repository:
is a contemporary phrase used to refer to a form of ostracism in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles — whether it be online, on social media, or in person.Those subject to this ostracism are said to have been “cancelled. The expression “cancel culture” has mostly negative…