First example of cancel culture that comes to mind?

[Tom Lennox 70]

Morgan Wallen is probably the best SURVIVOR of cancel culture along with Duck Dynasty (which ended on its own terms) and Chick fil A, though CFA has indeed gone more liberal in recent years.

The thing is what gets you on the cancel culture list continues to expand. Back in the day, it was only opposing the gay lifestyle that got the liberals to try to cancel you. Now support for Trump, support for the Canadian truckers, flying a Confederate flag (liberals don't get to define what it means and if you're not from the South you don't know anything), not totally agreeing with BLM and CRT all can get you on the naughty list!

[alabamatide]

I have a niece who has been writing for home and garden magazines for years. She's been an editor for Southern Living Magazine, Women's Wear Daily, Birmingham Home and Garden, etc. We were just talking about this an agreed that the South is probably the most despised area of the US. I would have expected this many years ago but not today.

[L8Gr8Apost8]

Elvis "the pelvis" Pressly.

[remco67]

going on long before any of these things. Heck the first thing that comes to mind for me is the Temperance movement to get rid of Alcohol and I would bet there are more throat history which some history buffs would be aware of.

[Coolhand68]

Dixie Chicks weren’t cancelled. There were people who were offended by their behavior and boycotted them, but they were never cancelled or prevented from making a living. Big difference.

[Mrs. Skeffington]

Showing my age here, but I remember when CBS canceled the popular "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" because of their anti-Vietnam and political rhetoric (not the reason they gave for the cancelation, of course).

Back in the early 90's, a few local fundamentalist religious residents sent out a petition every year to ban my daughter's elementary school from holding their annual Halloween Parade. The high school marching band played, and the kids marched around the school in their costumes. Oh, the horror. They tried to abolish the neighborhood trick or treating as well. To no avail.

Also, in our area of Pennsylvania in the late 1970's and early 80's, when the Sunday "Blue Laws" started to become ignored and abolished, there was a list of businesses that consumers were encouraged to boycott because they started to open on Sundays.

[Take a History Class]

Originally Posted by Roboteer

The Dixie Chicks never got cancelled. They were never forbidden to post on Facebook, Snapchat, to talk about their views on TV, in their concerts etc.

A lot of people simply stopped buying tickets to their concerts, and kept pointing out what repellent views the Dixie Chicks had. If the Dixie Chicks were "unable to reply" to what people said about them (since what people said was correct), that wasn't because anyone else had "cancelled" them. It was because what the Dixie Chicks were doing and saying, was indefensible.

And whose fault was that?

Excellent point. Their entire audience, for the most part, turned on them. It wasn't their record company that forced them into obscurity.

[TOkidd]

I remember Congressional Committees created to cancel certain rap groups in the late-80’s and early-90’s for being “profane.” They wanted to cancel 2 Live Crew, NWA, Ice-T, and more than a few others.

The Focus-on-the-Family types also had problems with the Simpsons, violent video games (apparently they were the reason for school shootings) Marilyn Manson and other heavy metal acts (going all the way back to Black Sabbath.)

So-called “cancel culture” has always existed in one form or another.

[SeaMaj7]

The first example of cancel culture?



The crucifixion of Jesus Christ.