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Cancel culture: "Say no to the social death penalty"

2020-10-09T17:36:43.380Z


CHRONICLE - “These [media] executions have become commonplace in North America. They deserve that we broaden our thinking, ”judges essayist Mathieu Bock-Côté.


In recent months, there has been a lot of concern about “cancel culture”.

It designates these lynching attempts against those who are delivered to public revenge by the new digital activists agitating on social networks.

They throw themselves in a pack on the skidder of the day, condemned to the social death penalty.

The phenomenon is not exclusive to the Anglo-Saxon world, as David Doucet testifies in his latest book,

La Haine en ligne

(Albin Michel).

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This work which does not lack interest originates from the media execution of the author following the strange affair of the "League of Lol" in 2019, when he was the target of a cabal for nonsense " tweeter ”committed six years previously.

In a few hours, the one who belonged to the young Parisian bobocratic guard and who tracked down the evil thinking in the "fascosphere" saw himself transformed - in turn - into infrequent, let go by his bosses, banished professionally and seeing his life s' collapse insanely.

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Source: lefigaro

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