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The creator of The Office, Ricky Gervais, has called out the online “fascists” that want to shut down freedom of speech, saying that “if you’re mildly conservative on Twitter people call you Hitler.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex (D-NY) mocked complaints about “cancel culture,” saying that those complaining were speaking out of a sense of “entitlement.”

Amazon, the world’s leading online retailer, has announced that it is joining the cancel culture effort by pulling all Redskins merchandise from its website.

There is dissension in the ranks at Vox, the far-left opinion website, with co-founders Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein seemingly clashing over the former’s decision to sign the Harpers open letter against cancel culture.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling joined a group of over one hundred writers and academics calling for an end to cancel culture and the “intolerant climate that has set in on all sides”, which drew backlash from both sides of

Harry Potter author Joanne ‘JK’ Rowling has again been targeted by trans activists for warning that children believed to be “trans” should not necessarily be “shunted towards hormones and surgery”.

A rugby fan has been banned from his club’s stadium for life for praising a girl who refused to “take the knee” and criticising “Marxist extremism and intimidation”.

Taylor Lorenz, the former Daily Beast reporter who doxed Pamela Geller’s children, causing them to lose their jobs, is now complaining that venture capitalists want to “destroy her career” — because they criticized Lorenz on social media.

Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) weighed in on this November’s presidential election and argued the match-up between incumbent President Donald Trump and presumptive nominee former Vice President Joe Biden could come down to who would be the best counter to the so-called “cancel culture” and the mob representing it.

As she faces her own cancel mob for wearing cornows and possibly blackface, actress Alyssa Milano is blaming “cancel culture” on conservatives, arguing that the political right — not the left — is “weaponizing” cancel culture to take out critics of President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney has stepped down as Chief Judge of the Central District of California because he complimented a black court official for being “street-smart.”

YouTube star Jenna Marbles says she is quitting her channel, after being on the platform for a decade during which she garnered over 20 million subscribers and over 3 billion views, due to her past racist and sexist videos.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) rejected any claim Democrats were working to rename military bases and war memorials for the sake of justice or unification in America.

A great-grandson of “Aunt Jemima” says that his family legacy will be “erased” now that Quaker Foods plans to eliminate the Aunt Jemima brand of pancake mix and syrup.

The University of Georgia Redcoat Marching Band has dumped Tara’s Theme from its routine because of the song’s connection to the classic Civil War film, Gone With The Wind.

The University of Florida has decided to put an end to its “Gator Bait” chant, due to what the school claims is the “historic racist imagery associated with the phrase.”

Rick Wilson, a prominent Never Trumper and leader of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, is facing a wave of backlash after effectively attempting to “cancel” Domino’s Pizza for thanking White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for a compliment over seven years ago.

Rev. Bill Owens denounces the ideological bullying of the left, and said he will “stand with Tucker Carlson” against advertisers who have pulled ads from his Fox News Channel show.

Spike Lee apologized Saturday for using words he said were “wrong” after he supported his friend Woody Allen and criticized cancel culture.

“#IStandWithTuckerCarlson” trended on Twitter today as conservatives rallied to Carlson’s defense after a coordinated attack on the Fox Host’s advertisers by the woke leftist mob.

Former Federal Reserve chair Janet L. Yellen told the New York Times on Wednesday that she backs an effort to have Harald Uhlig fired as editor of a prestigious economic journal because he opposes “defund the police.”

A group of left-wing economists is demanding that Professor Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago be forced to resign as editor of the Journal of Political Economy because he criticized left-wing proposals to “defund the police.”

CrossFit CEO and founder Greg Glassman apologized for mocking a political statement framing “racism” as an epidemiological issue.

The largest church in the state of Alabama has been “canceled” by the Birmingham Housing Authority because Pastor Chris Hodges follows Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk on social media and has “liked” Kirk’s Instagram posts. Donald Trump Jr. commented on the city’s actions, tweeting: “They’re canceling the pastor of the largest (and most racially diverse) church in Alabama just because he liked some of [Charlie Kirk’s] posts. Absolutely insane.” 

Ivanka Trump condemned “cancel culture” in a tweet published on Friday after Wichita State University revoked its invitation for her to speak at the school’s spring commencement ceremony.

When the New York Times is repeatedly bullied into rewriting headlines and forced to beg forgiveness for publishing Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) op-ed, it’s no longer a newspaper.

Actor John Malkovich is blaming the death of comedy on cancel culture fueled by the “tidal wave of idiocy” that thrives on social media.

In the latest instance of left-wing cancel culture, a virtual LGBT pride parade in the UK has been shut down after activists discovered that the organiser was a supporter of Brexit and had liked tweets from Nigel Farage and free speech campaigner Toby Young.

(AFP) — BuzzFeed said on Thursday that it would be shuttering part of its loss-making news operations in Britain and Australia, as it scales back global ambitions to cut costs.

Almost every business is caving to the leftist cancel culture mob – but not this British institution, Yorkshire Tea.

More than eight in ten people working in culture and the arts feel those with “controversial opinions” risk professional ostracism.

Conservative parliamentarian Daniel Kawczysnki received a “formal warning” from the Conservative Party after a drive to “cancel” him for giving a speech at a conservative conference attended by Viktor Orbán and Matteo Salvini.

The Laura Loomer for Congress campaign is filing a formal complaint against Twitter with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that her campaign’s ban from Twitter because of her conservative viewpoints is effectively an illegal corporate in-kind contribution to her Democratic opponent, Frankel.

Ofcom has announced that it will not probe further into comedienne Jo Brand suggesting people throw battery acid at politicians during a radio programme.

David Bellamy is dead — and if his name doesn’t mean much to you that is largely the fault of the disgusting BBC.

A study has found that a majority of conservative students feel unable to express their political opinions at university.